P.R. Laws tit. 8, § 505
A special fund is hereby created under the administration of the Administrator, which shall be known as the “Special Fund for Services and Representation of Child Support Cases”.
The funds received by the Administration for services rendered, gifts, incentives, income, fines, charges, interest, penalties, expenses, costs, fees or appropriations to implement the objectives of this chapter and those proceeding from any other account authorized by this chapter, shall be entered in the books of the Secretary of the Treasury apart from any other funds received by the Department in order to facilitate their identification, administration and use by the Administration.
The Administrator shall use the resources of this Special Fund for the purposes and ends authorized in this chapter, subject to applicable conditions and restrictions, including the payment of necessary expenses in the rendering of child support services to the persons who thus request them.
Said funds shall be accounted for irrespective of any specific fiscal year and shall be governed by the rules and regulations that the Secretary adopts in harmony with the provisions in effect for the administration of similar funds, and applicable federal legislation and regulations.
History —Dec. 30, 1986, No. 5, p. 887, art. IV, § 6; Aug. 17, 1994, No. 86, § 9; Dec. 18, 1997, No. 169, § 4.