P.R. Laws tit. 20, § 2246
The College of Interior Designers-Decorators of Puerto Rico shall have the power:
(a) To subsist in perpetuity under that name.
(b) To sue and be sued as a juridical entity.
(c) To have and use a seal which it may alter at will.
(d) To acquire rights and property, both personal and real, by donation, legacy, assessments among its own members, purchase or otherwise, and to possess, mortgage, lease and dispose of them in any form.
(e) To designate its officials.
(f) To adopt its bylaws which shall be binding on all its members and to amend them in the manner and under the requirements herein prescribed.
(g) To borrow money and give security for the payment thereof.
(h) To adopt and see to the compliance with the canons of professional ethics to govern the conduct of its members.
(i) To receive and investigate the complaints that may be filed with regard to the practice and/or conduct of the members in the exercise of the profession; to hold hearings in which the member thus affected or his/her representative shall be given the opportunity to submit pertinent evidence; to take complaints before the Board of Examiners of Interior Designers-Decorators for the proper action. Nothing provided in this subsection shall be construed as to limit or alter the powers of the Board of Examiners of Interior Designers-Decorators of Puerto Rico.
(j) To protect its members in the practice of the profession and to promote their professional development, and likewise to provide for the creation of insurance systems and special funds and other means of voluntary protection.
(k) To exercise such incidental powers as may be necessary or advisable for the purposes of its creation and operation and which are not in conflict with this subchapter.
History —June 3, 1976, No. 131, p. 378, § 2, renumbered as § 3 by § 9 and amended by § 3 on Aug. 14, 1998, No. 244.