P.R. Laws tit. 21, § 5809

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§ 5809. Personnel of the Center

The Center shall be an “individual administrator”, as the term is defined in Act No. 5 of October 14, 1975 known as “Public Service Personnel Act”, and shall adopt the rules and regulations that are necessary for the administration of its personnel system, upon approval by the Board. Said rules shall guarantee that any person who had previously been a career employee in any other agency or municipality prior to his/her services as a confidential employee of the Center shall have the right to be reinstated in a position of equal or similar nature and category to the one he/she held as a career servant at the moment that he/she was promoted to a confidential position. To those effects, the regulatory mechanisms available to guarantee a retribution in accordance to his/her competence and specialized knowledge may be used.

No person who has a tax obligation or any other kind of debt with a municipality may hold any office in the Center, unless a payment plan has been agreed upon for the liquidation of said debt, and he/she is up to date in the installments. The officials and employees of the Center shall be subject to §§ 1801 et seq. of Title 3 known as the “Ethics in Government Act of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico”.

The officials and employees of the Center shall be entitled to the benefits of §§ 761 et seq. of Title 3 known as “Employees Retirement System Act of the Government of Puerto Rico and its Instrumentalities”.

Every official, employee and examiner of the Center shall pledge faithful compliance with the functions of his office and shall not disclose any of the information obtained in the course of his/her official efforts.

History —Aug. 30, 1991, No. 80, § 10.