P.R. Laws tit. 20, § 112
The College of Dental Surgeons of Puerto Rico shall have power:
(a) To subsist in perpetuity under that name; to sue and to be sued as a [juridical] person.
(b) To possess and use a seal which it can alter at will.
(c) To acquire rights and property, both real and personal, through donation, legacy, quotas on its own members, purchase or otherwise; to hold, convey, mortgage and lease them, and to dispose thereof in any manner.
(d) To appoint and elect its directors and functionaries or officials, as stipulated in the bylaws of the College and the law that created it.
(e) To adopt its bylaws, which shall be binding on all its members, and to amend said bylaws, in such form and under the requirements established therein. The College is hereby authorized upon the holding of a hearing in which the interested parties shall be given the opportunity to be heard, to impose administrative sanctions to the members of said College who violate the provisions of the bylaws so adopted. The bylaws shall prescribe everything concerning the procedures to be followed in said hearing.
(f) To adopt or implant the rules of professional ethics which shall govern the conduct of dentists.
(g) To receive and investigate the complaints formulated under oath in regard to the conduct of the members in the practice of their profession, which complaints can be sent to the board of directors for decision, and if, after a preliminary hearing in which the interested person or his representative shall be given an opportunity to be heard, cause is found, to institute the proper proceedings for expulsion before the Board of Dental Examiners. Nothing provided in this subsection shall be understood in the sense of limiting or altering the power of the Board of Dental Examiners to institute these proceedings on its own account.
(h) In order 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 that may be necessary or convenient for the purposes of its creation and operation, as are not in conflict with §§ 111—123 of this title.
History —May 13, 1941, No. 162, p. 986, § 2; June 15, 1965, No. 32, p. 59, § 1.