P.R. Laws tit. 20, § 652a
(a) To participate, when so required, in councils or consultant bodies at government level, concerning matters under its professional competency, as well as to foster, promote and publicize the improvement of the practice of agronomy and its continual progress.
(b) To participate, when so required, in the preparation of study plans and collaborate with the learning centers corresponding to the profession.
(c) Assume, within its scope, the representation and defense of the agronomy profession before entities and individuals, when it is understood that institutional professional interests are being affected. To exercise the right to petition, pursuant to the law.
(d) Provide courts and individuals with easy access to the those [sic] Association members that could be necessary to intervene as experts in judicial matters.
(e) To order, within the scope of its competency, the professional activities of Association members, overseeing observance of professional ethics and dignity and of due respect of the rights of individuals, and to exercise disciplinary power in the profession and in the Association.
(f) To organize and offer common activities and services of a professional or technical, cultural or analogous nature that are of interest for Association members of the various specializations of the profession.
(g) To seek harmony, collaboration, fellowship among Association members, by hindering unfair competition among them. To establish an institutional relationship with analogous international associations or societies, pursuant to the applicable reciprocity and courtesy rules.
(h) To adopt measures leading to preventing the entry of unqualified persons into the profession.
(i) To intervene, by means of conciliation or arbitration, in questions which may arise among Association members due to professional motives.
(j) Whichever other functions serve to benefit the general interests of agronomy professionals and to further the improvement of the quality of life for citizens in general.
(k) To take the appropriate, necessary and convenient measures under the law to enforce the duties mentioned herein.
(l) To propitiate the preservation of agricultural high-yield land, overseeing the safety in food supplies and the conservation of natural resources.
History —Apr. 9, 1941, No. 20, p. 360, added as § 20 on Dec. 13, 2006, No. 265, § 11.