P.R. Laws tit. 20, § 2118
The College shall have power to:
(a) Subsist in perpetuity under that name, to sue and be sued as an artificial person.
(b) Possess and use a seal, which it may alter at will.
(c) 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 of them in any manner.
(d) Appoint its directors and officials.
(e) Adopt its bylaws which shall be binding on all its members and to amend same in the manner and under the requirements established therein.
(f) Adopt and [effect] the canons of professional ethics that shall govern the conduct of its members.
(g) Receive and investigate the complaint that may be made in regard to the conduct of the members in the practice of their profession, and the complaints can be sent to the Board of Directors for action, after a preliminary hearing in which an opportunity shall be given to the interested person, if well-founded cause is found, to institute the corresponding complaint before the Board of Examiners. Nothing provided herein shall be understood as a limitation or alteration of the faculty of the Board of Examiners to initiate on its own these proceedings.
(h) Protect its members in the exercise of their profession, and through the creation of gratuity funds, insurance systems, and special funds, or in any other way to help those who retire for physical disability or advanced age, or the heirs or beneficiaries of those who die.
(i) Exercise such incidental powers as may be necessary or advisable for the purposes of its creation and which are not in conflict with this chapter.
History —Mar. 20, 1972, No. 9, p. 18, § 8, eff. 90 days after Mar. 20, 1972.