(a) Each employee or officer of the Administration, with a permanent or regular appointment, shall have the option of entering the Employees Retirement System of the Government of Puerto Rico and its Instrumentalities, created under the provisions of §§ 761—788 of this title, availing themselves of its benefits with the same rights and obligations which apply to the other employees under said System. The option to participate in the Retirement System shall be exercised, in the case of active employees, within the term of sixty (60) days counting from the date of the approval of this act, or from the date of appointment in the case of employees that are appointed at a later date.
(b) Each Administration employee may request the Director, in writing, that after making the deductions required by law, all or part of his salary be deposited by mail or any other means in a bank account designated by said employee in his petition.
History —June 19, 1979, No. 77, p. 159, § 6.