P.R. Laws tit. 1, § 151
A Civil Rights Commission is hereby created which shal1 be composed of five (5) members appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate. No official or employee of the Commonwealth Government and its instrumentalities and municipalities shall be a member of the Commission, with the exception of the teachers of the Department of Education and the professors of the University of Puerto Rico.
The members of the Commission shall be appointed for a term of six (6) years, and except for a duly-justified cause, after a hearing of the party concerned, no member of the Commission shall be removed from office before the expiration of the term for which they have been appointed. The first appointed members shall hold office as follows: one for two (2) years; one for three (3) years; one for four (4) years, and two for six (6) years. A person appointed to fill a vacancy occurring before the expiration of the term of any of the members of the Commission shall hold office for the remainder of the term of the member replaced.
Three (3) members of the Commission shall constitute a quorum for the business of the Commission, but the Commission may delegate on one or more of its members and its Executive Director the function of hearing testimonies or receiving any other evidence for the Commission.
History —June 28, 1965, No. 102, p. 267, § 1; Dec. 19, 1997, No. 173, § 1.