P.R. Laws tit. 5, § 1702
(a) By virtue of the provisions of this chapter there is hereby created a public corporation and a government instrumentality of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico under the name of the “Puerto Rico Rural Development Corporation” which shall be ascribed to the Department of Agriculture of the Commonwealth.
(b) The powers of the Corporation shall be vested in and shall be exercised by the Secretary of Agriculture of Puerto Rico.
(c) The Secretary of Agriculture of Puerto Rico may adopt the norms, rules, regulations and proceedings he may deem necessary or convenient to exercise the powers and fulfill the purposes of the Corporation.
(d) The Corporation shall have legal personality separate from any officer thereof and from the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and its agencies, instrumentalities, public corporations and political subdivisions.
(e) The Corporation shall have an Executive Director appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture of Puerto Rico who shall hold office until his successor is appointed. The Executive Director shall represent the Corporation in all acts and contracts that it may be necessary to hold or make in the exercise of its functions and shall discharge the duties and shall have the responsibilities, faculties and authority delegated to him by the Secretary of Agriculture of Puerto Rico.
(f) The Secretary of Agriculture of Puerto Rico may delegate to the Executive Director or other employees of the Corporation those powers and duties he may deem proper to delegate, except the power to approve regulations not for the internal operation of the Corporation, which power shall not be delegable.
(g) For the planning and designing of the programs and/or activities to be carried out by the Corporation, the Secretary shall designate a Consulting Board composed of eight (8) people representative of the rural zone of Puerto Rico and on which farmers, workers, civic entities and agricultural technicians, and the Commissioner of the Puerto Rico Cooperative Commission or an authorized representative shall be represented.
History —May 30, 1973, No. 63, p. 282, § 2; Aug. 20, 2009, No. 83, § 1.