P.R. Laws tit. 8, § 1006e
The Council shall be constituted within a term of sixty (60) days after the date of approval of this act and shall continue the proceedings of the Commission repealed herein. The Council shall have the following responsibilities and powers:
(a) To coordinate the implementation and establishment of interagency assistance to the homeless in each municipality with the Municipal Liaison Official, as well as with municipal consortiums which include adjacent and abutting municipalities.
(b) To adopt the necessary guidelines and regulations to devise a plan to provide accessible and proper housing for the homeless; such plan shall be devised by the municipal governments for the purpose of addressing the issues affecting the homeless in their respective jurisdictions. These plans shall be approved by the Municipal Legislature of each municipality and submitted to the Council for its approval and implementation through the Municipal Liaison Official for Interagency Homeless Assistance. These approved plans shall be reviewed every two years to temper the same with the results obtained in the services provided to the homeless.
(c) To conduct studies and/or collect data about the issues affecting the homeless population. These shall be evaluated and commented on by its members or by the organizations and institutions designated by its members for such purpose, in order to establish strategies and the action plan with the pertinent agencies and make adjustments to the action plan of the Council once a year. The Council must gather general and municipal statistics with the help of the Municipal Liaison Official for Interagency Homeless Assistance regarding the services rendered, the population served, statistics by gender, age, level of schooling, alcoholism, mental patients, drug addiction, chronic diseases, and other available epidemiologic data, among others, and explain the annual results for the Council’s evaluation.
History —Sept. 27, 2007, No. 130, § 7; Dec. 10, 2010, No. 191, § 6; renumbered as § 8 on Feb. 18, 2011, No. 8, § 2.