The College of Medical Technologists of Puerto Rico shall have power:
(a) To subsist in perpetuity under that name.
(b) To sue and be sued as an artificial person.
(c) To possess and use a seal, which it can alter at will.
(d) To acquire rights and property, both real and personal, by donation, legacy, contributions from its own members, purchase or otherwise, and to possess them, mortgage them, lease them and dispose thereof in any form.
(e) To appoint its directors and officers and officials.
(f) To adopt its bylaws which shall be binding on all its members and to amend same in the form and under the requirements established therein.
(g) To protect its members in the exercise of their profession 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 who suffer accidents or sickness and the heirs or beneficiaries of those who die.
(h) To receive and investigate the complaints made in regard to the conduct of the members in the practice of their profession and in violation of this chapter; the complaints may be sent to the Board of Directors for action and, after a preliminary hearing in which an opportunity shall be given to the interested person or his representative if well-founded cause is found, to institute the proper proceeding of suspension or revocation of the license before the Board of Examiners of Medical Technologists of Puerto Rico. Nothing provided herein shall be construed as limiting or altering the power of the Board of Examiners of the Medical Technologists of Puerto Rico to initiate on its own account these proceedings.
(i) To exercise such incidental powers as may be necessary or advisable for the purposes of its creation and operation and which are not in conflict with the provisions of this chapter.
(j) To adopt or introduce the canons of professional ethics which shall govern the conduct of medical technologists, and
(k) to assume the representation of all the medical technologists authorized by the Board of Examiners of Medical Technologists to practice their profession in Puerto Rico and to speak in their name and in their representation in accordance with the terms of this chapter and of the bylaws approved therefor.
History —May 30, 1972, No. 44, p. 96, § 9.