P.R. Laws tit. 20, § 2012
The College of Expert Electricians of Puerto Rico shall have the following powers and duties:
(a) To subsist in perpetuity under that name, and to sue and be sued as an [juridical] person.
(b) To possess and to use a seal, which it may alter at will.
(c) To acquire rights and property, both real and personal, by purchase, donation, legacy assessments on its own members or in any other legal manner and to possess them, mortgage them, lease them and dispose thereof in any legal form.
(d) To appoint its members to the Board of Directors and officers.
(e) It shall adopt bylaws by which all members shall abide, as provided by a General Assembly, pursuant to Section II for such purposes, and to amend such bylaws in the manner and under the requirements established therein.
(f) It shall protect its members in the exercise of their profession; and through the creation of gratuity funds, insurance systems and special funds or in any other way, to help those members who retire for physical disability or advanced age, and the heirs or the beneficiaries of those who die.
(g) It shall receive and investigate the complaints that may be made in regard to the conduct of its members in the practice of their profession, which complaints shall be sent to the Board of Directors for action, and after a preliminary hearing in which the interested party shall be given an opportunity for his defense, if well-founded grounds are found, to institute the proper proceedings for the suspension of his license before the Board of Examiners of Expert Electricians of Puerto Rico.
(h) It shall defend the rights of its members and shall see to it that the latter enjoy the necessary prestige and respect for the proper performance of their profession.
(i) It shall promote fraternal relationships among its members and shall try to keep a sound and strict vocational morale among them.
(j) It shall exercise such incidental powers as may be necessary or advisable for the purposes of its creation and which are not in conflict with this chapter.
[(k)] The College shall offer a continuing education program for all its members, provided, that the continuing education program to be established shall require a minimum of eight (8) hours per year. The College may exempt any member of the United States of America Armed Forces from meeting the continuing education requirements.
History —June 28, 1969, No. 131, p. 380, § 2; June 12, 1980, No. 122, p. 440, § 2; Nov. 6, 1992, No. 90, § 1; July 30, 2010, No. 112, § 1; Dec. 10, 2010, No. 192, art. 1.