P.R. Laws tit. 20, § 432
The College of Pharmacists of Puerto Rico shall have power:
(a) To subsist in perpetuity under that name, to sue and be sued, as an artificial person.
(b) To possess and use a seal which it may alter at will.
(c) To acquire rights and property, both real and personal, by donation, legacy, taxes on its own members, purchase, or otherwise; and possess them, mortgage them, lease them, and dispose of them in any manner.
(d) To appoint its directors and officials or officers.
(e) To adopt its regulations, which shall be obligatory on all the members, as the assembly provided for in § 13 of this act or, in default thereof, the governing board hereinafter established may prescribe.
(f) To adopt and [implement] the canons of professional ethics that shall govern the conduct of pharmacists.
(g) To receive and investigate the complaints formulated under oath in regard to the conduct of the members in the practice of the profession, and it may send them to the Board of Directors for action thereon; and after a preliminary hearing in which an opportunity shall be given to the interested person, the corresponding proceeding for removal shall be instituted before the Board of Pharmacy of Puerto Rico if well-grounded cause is found.
(h) To protect its members in the practice of the profession, and through the creation of gratuity funds, insurance systems, and special funds, or in any other manner, to help those who retire for physical disability or advanced age, and the heirs or beneficiaries of those who die.
(i) To exercise such incidental powers as may be necessary or advisable for the purposes of its creation and as are not in conflict with this chapter.
History —May 15, 1938, No. 243, p. 458, § 2; June 30, 1959, No. 103, p. 293, § 1; June 24, 1971, No. 101, p. 338, § 1.