P.R. Laws tit. 25, § 1915
(a) The Board’s income from telephone fees shall be used exclusively to defray or reimburse the expenses directly attributed to receiving and responding to emergency and citizen service request calls, dispatching and rendering of first response services in emergencies, and responding to or addressing service requests, and managing said emergencies and citizen service requests.
(b) The funds collected from charges to telephone subscribers shall be distributed as established by the Board through regulations, without exceeding the following limits for the first two (2) fiscal years:
(1) Billing cost and collection of charges by the telephone companies: No more than 2% (2) Reserve for contigencies: No more than 15% (3) Reserve for expansion of services and replacement of equipment and systems: No less than 10% (4) Board administration and joint operating expenses of public safety agencies, including the 9-1-1 call-receiving centers: No more than 33% (5) Individual expenses typical of security agencies in responding to calls via 9-1-1. This item shall be distributed among the public safety agencies in proportion to the number of calls handled by each one, except when the Board members, by consensus, authorize exceptions in order to resolve special needs of one or more agencies: No less than 40%
(c) In its discretion, the Board may reimburse the percentage it deems justified from the direct salaries of the personnel appointed by the public safety agencies for the direct assistance of the 9-1-1 users, as well as the operating and the maintenance costs of the systems and equipment required by the agencies to render the service required by the Board.
(d) Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, for Fiscal Year 2014-2015, the sum of twelve million dollars ($12,000,000) shall be transferred from the funds collected from charges imposed on telephone subscribers or any other income received by the Board on other accounts to the Legal Liability Fund. Said transfer shall be made on or before five (5) days have elapsed from the approval of this act.
History —Dec. 22, 1994, No. 144, § 6, eff. 30 days after Dec. 22, 1994; July 12, 2011, No. 126, § 5; July 1, 2014, No. 78, § 18.