P.R. Laws tit. 17, § 1009
The Secretary may transfer other programs, services, units, divisions or branches of the Department to the Administration, with the purpose of achieving an effective integration and coordination of the administration of public housing and rendering of essential services to their residents. Any transfer made by the Secretary by virtue of this section must be written down in a document clearly stating the transferred functions, responsibilities, funds and transferred resources. A copy of this document must be remitted to the Legislature, to the Governor of Puerto Rico and to the Government’s Office of the Management and Budget no later than fifteen (15) days following the date on which the Secretary and the Board authorizes the transfer of the program, service, unit, division or branch of the Department involved.
Whenever he deems it necessary and feasible, the Secretary may advise the Governor to transfer the services, activities, functions and resources of the Coordination Office for Assistance and Services to Residential Project Citizens (OCASCIR) and any other program, activity or service established administratively or through executive order of the Governor, to the Administration. In those cases that the Governor performs the transfer, he shall determine the manner and effective date and shall take the measures he deems necessary or convenient so that operation and services of said Office or any other activity, program or service transferred to the Administration according to what is authorized in this section, are not affected.
The Administration and the OCASCIR Program shall establish those working agreements which will allow the development of a joint and comprehensive effort to raise the quality of life of the residents and which facilitate the future integration of these services. When the Secretary deems it necessary, to avoid duplication of efforts, he may recommend to the Governor of Puerto Rico, that in the exercise of the faculties conferred to him through § 559 of Title 1, to provide for the transfer of those programs, functions and resources destined for the exclusive benefit of public housing residents by the RED Program to the Administration.
History —Aug. 17, 1989, No. 66, p. 282, § 10; Jan. 10, 2003, No. 71, § 7.