P.R. Laws tit. 20, § 822
The College shall have the power to:
(a) To subsist in perpetuity under that name, to sue and be sued as a juridical person.
(b) To possess and to use a seal, which it may alter at will.
(c) To acquire rights and property, both real and personal, by donation, legacy, assessments on its own members, purchase or otherwise; and to possess them, mortgage them, lease them and dispose thereof in any form.
(d) To appoint its directors and officers or officials.
(e) To adopt its bylaws, which shall be binding on all its members, as the assembly provided for in § 21 of this Act may prescribe, and to amend the same in the form, and under the requirements, established therein.
(f) To protect its members in the exercise of their profession.
(g) To exercise such incidental powers as may be necessary or advisable for the purposes for which it is created, and which are not in conflict with this chapter.
History —May 11, 1940, No. 171, p. 984, § 2; Dec. 30, 2010, No. 249, § 2.