P.R. Laws tit. 8, § 504
The Child Support Administration is hereby created, attached to the Department, as one of its operational and programmatic components, under the coordination, supervision, evaluation and inspection of the Secretary.
The Administration shall constitute an Individual Administrator pursuant to Act No. 5 of October 14, 1975, known as the “Puerto Rico Public Service Personnel Act”. The Administration shall establish and administer its personnel system pursuant to the systems, regulations, norms and procedures approved by the Secretary.
The Administration shall establish and administer its accounting systems and management of accounts, purchases and supplies, and management of records and files and any other administrative and operational support system pursuant to the regulations, norms, and procedures approved by the Secretary. It also shall establish a system for the management, copying, conservation and disposition of documents subject to the provisions set forth in §§ 1001 et seq. of Title 3.
The Administration, in the performance of the duties conferred by this chapter, shall be exempt from the payment of all fees, duties, taxes, license fees and excise taxes, whether state or municipal, as well as from taxes.
The Administration shall be under the direction of an Administrator appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, who shall also fix the salaries or remuneration in accordance with the usual standards in the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico for positions of the same or similar nature. The Administrator shall hold office at the will of the Governor and shall be a person of moral probity, capacity and knowledge of matters related to child support.
The Administration shall be empowered to arrange for checks, files, registers and documents to be copied, photographed, digitalized, microfilmed, stored in facsimile form, digital characters or any similar manner, in full size or reduced. Original documents may be seized. Copies certified or sealed by an authorized official of the Administration shall have equal validity as evidence as the originals. Copies shall constitute evidence of authenticity of same, for any legal purpose, in administrative and judicial procedures, and private negotiations.
The Administrator, with the approval of the Secretary, shall establish the systems needed for adequate functioning and operation. By delegation of the Secretary, he/she shall appoint the personnel he deems necessary and shall carry out the administrative and managerial actions needed for the best compliance of the purposes of this chapter, as well as any other local and federal acts, and also of the regulations promulgated by the Secretary and adopted by virtue of this chapter. The Administrator is hereby authorized, in the performance of his/her functions, to delegate the powers and duties conferred on his/her by this chapter, except the power to regulate and appoint personnel.
History —Dec. 30, 1986, No. 5, p. 887, art. IV, § 5; Aug. 17, 1994, No. 86, § 6; Aug. 12, 1995, No. 202, § 2; Aug. 1, 2003, No. 178, § 4.