P.R. Laws tit. 3, § 1007
For the purpose of coordinating the Archives with the various government dependencies and formulating the general rules which are to govern the Archives, the Puerto Rico General Archives Advisory Committee is hereby established, composed of representatives of each of the Program Administrators. The Office of the Comptroller is excluded from this provision. The Executive Director of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture or his authorized representative shall be the ex officio Chairman of the Committee. In addition to the Committee’s regulations mentioned in the second paragraph of this section, this official shall establish the operating procedures of the General Archives Advisory Committee. If circumstances permit, he may require the Program Administrators to provide information, material, personnel, equipment and technical aid for the Committee’s operation and for the establishment and enforcement of the general operating standards for the Archives, and he may increase the number of Committee members by a maximum of three (3) additional members, should they be needed for its operation. The Archivist shall be the Permanent Secretary of the Committee and shall preside over its meetings in the absence of the Chairman.
The Commission shall meet in regular session once a year and in special session as often as the Chairman of the Commission deems proper or as the members of the Commission so request. The Commission shall prepare a set of rules and regulations which shall fix, among other things, the procedure to be followed for the disposal of documents in the possession of the Archivist if same should turn out to be useless, to be duplicates, or to be devoid of historical interest; if they more properly belong in some other dependency of the Government; or, if for any other like reason, they no longer merit being preserved in the General Archives of Puerto Rico.
History —Dec. 8, 1955, No. 5, p. 78, § 9; June 4, 1979, No. 63, p. 126, § 3.