Legislative donations shall be granted to the entities chosen from among those that qualify on a fiscal year basis, and shall not be recurrent. Every recipient entity interested in receiving a legislative donation shall submit a new application each fiscal year, and shall be subject to the entire evaluation and consideration process including the visit of officials from the designated agency and from the Special Joint Committee on Legislative Donations, as if it was the first time they filed such application.
Notwithstanding what is provided above, legislative donations may be granted without being subject to a specific fiscal year when the public function or activity for which the donation was granted will be carried out in stages or on a specific date, however, it shall be subject to an express indication on the term of effectiveness of said donation.
Legislative donations shall be appropriated chargeable to the resources available in the General Fund of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico for such purposes, or chargeable to unencumbered moneys from any other sources to deal with other public obligations.
History —Dec. 29, 1995, No. 258, § 5.