P.R. Laws tit. 22, § 1054oo
(a) The Director shall be appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate for a term of six (6) years, and the Governor shall fix his/her compensation using as guideline the salary established for heads of agency or departments with functions of similar complexity as the ICPO. The Director shall be an attorney-at-law duly licensed to practice under the laws of Puerto Rico, with at least five (5) years of experience, of recognized probity and resident of Puerto Rico. The Governor shall appoint the Director of the ICPO by selecting from a list of ten (10) candidates resulting from a public and open job announcement to nonprofit nongovernmental organizations whose mission is to represent consumers or customers, small business, the elderly or low-income persons, to submit their recommendations for nomination. Once the term provided for such nongovernmental organizations to nominate candidates for the position of Director of the ICPO, the Office of the Governor shall publish on its website the list of all the proposed candidates and shall specify the nongovernmental organization that nominated each candidate.
(b) The Director may be removed from office by the Governor only for just cause and after notice and opportunity to be heard.
(c) The Director and the members of his/her family unit, as defined in §§ 1854 et seq. of Title 3, known as the “Government Ethics Act of 2011”, shall not have any direct or indirect interest in, nor contractual relation whatsoever with PREPA and/or any other electric power company certified in Puerto Rico, nor in entities within or outside Puerto Rico affiliated to or with interest in PREPA or said companies.
(d) The Director may not participate in any matter or dispute in which any natural or juridical person with which he/she has had a contractual, professional, labor, or fiduciary relation within two (2) years prior to his/her appointment is a party thereto. Moreover, once his/her functions have ceased, the Director shall not represent any juridical person or entity before said Commission in relation to any issue in which he/she participated while serving on the Commission as Director, or with respect to any other issue within two (2) years after separation from office.
History —May 27, 2014, No. 57, § 6.42; renumbered as § 6.41 on Feb. 16, 2016, No. 4, § 27.