P.R. Laws tit. 20, § 652
The Agronomists Association of Puerto Rico shall have power:
(a) To subsist in perpetuity under that name, and to sue and be sued as [a juridical] person.
(b) To possess and use a seal, which it can order at will.
(c) To acquire rights and properties, both personal and real, by donation, legacy, taxes on its own members, purchase, or otherwise; and to possess them, mortgage them, lease them, and dispose of them in any manner.
(d) To appoint its directors and functionaries or officials.
(e) To adopt its bylaws which shall be binding on all its members, as the assembly provided for in § 25 of this act may prescribe, and to amend them in the form and under the requirements established therein.
(f) To protect its members in the exercise of their profession and through the creation of pension funds, insurance systems and special funds or in any other manner to help those persons who retire due to physical disability or old age and the heirs or beneficiaries of deceased persons.
(g) To exercise such incidental powers as may be necessary or advisable for the purposes of its creation and are not in conflict with this chapter.
(h) To adopt or implement the rules of professional ethics which shall govern the conduct of the agronomists.
(i) To receive and investigate complaints lodged under oath, concerning the conduct of agronomists.
(j) To recommend fees, to serve as guidelines, for contracting the professional services of agronomists.
(k) To establish administrative mechanisms to better discharge its functions and represent its members by affiliating institutions and integrating committees.
No organization may be constituted with an equal or similar function to that of the Association. Nonpartisan societies or associations of agronomy professionals shall be registered as entities affiliated to the Association.
History —Apr. 9, 1941, No. 20, p. 360, § 16; June 21, 1971, No. 55, p. 180, § 5; renumbered as § 19 and amended on Dec. 13, 2006, No. 265, § 10.