P.R. Laws tit. 29, § 2009
(a) For the reimbursement payments which the Department of Agriculture shall make to the sugarcane growers of Puerto Rico, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, there is hereby appropriated to the Department of Agriculture from unencumbered funds in the Commonwealth Treasury the following sums for each one of the three (3) corresponding fiscal years:
(1) For fiscal year 1970-71, five million dollars ($5,000,000) to compensate the advances corresponding to the 1969-70 harvest.
(2) For fiscal year 1971-72, six million dollars ($6,000,000) to compensate the advances corresponding to the 1970-71 harvest.
(3) For fiscal year 1972-73, six million dollars ($6,000,000) to compensate the advances corresponding to the 1971-72 harvest.
(4) The necessary amounts to compensate the advances, if any, corresponding to the subsequent fiscal years, shall be consigned in the Budget proposed annually by the Governor to the Legislature.
(b) The sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) is hereby appropriated for the fiscal year 1969-70, to organize the necessary administrative mechanism for the compliance of the provisions of this chapter.
(c) The Secretary is hereby authorized to use up to three hundred fifty thousand dollars ($350,000) from the appropriations provided for each fiscal year to cover the administrative expenses incurred in the execution of the provisions of this chapter. The personnel appointed for such purposes by the Secretary shall be included in the noncompetitive service.
(d) Any surplus of the appropriations provided for any year may be used for the purposes of another similar nature approved during the same legislative session entitled: “An Act to guarantee to the agricultural workers who are eligible in accordance with the regulation promulgated by the Secretary of Agriculture, an income of not less than eighty cents ($0.80) per hour during fiscal year 1969-70; not less than ninety cents ($0.90) during fiscal year 1970-71; and not less than one dollar ($1.00) per hour during fiscal year 1971-72, and subsequent years; to appropriate to the Department of Agriculture the necessary sums for the carrying out of a reimbursement program to the farmers of Puerto Rico which may permit them to face the additional expenses entailed by the guaranteed income; to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to classify the farmers into various groups and to promulgate regulations fixing the standards and the costs of the rates of reimbursement for each group and to establish the punishments and penalties for violations of this act.”
History —June 29, 1969, No. 141, p. 462, § 9; June 7, 1972, No. 5, p. 374, § 6; May 10, 1973, No. 24, p. 82.