P.R. Laws tit. 23, § 2904
The Authority shall operate under the direction of an executive director, who shall be appointed by the board and hold office at the volition of the board. Without it being understood as a limitation, his or her duties shall be the following:
(a) To be the chief executive officer of the Authority.
(b) To draft and submit to the Board the Authority’s work plan and annual budget.
(c) To supervise, monitor and audit the contracted entity’s compliance with its obligations under its contract with the Authority.
(d) To authorize and supervise any other contract that may be necessary for the Authority’s operation, subject to the standards established by the board.
(e) To attend all meetings of the board, but shall not be entitled to vote.
(f) To establish, organize, direct, and supervise the Authority’s administrative structure.
(g) To establish the functional levels of the Authority’s operations, including the faculty to recruit and contract any of the officers and employees under his or her supervision, subject to the standards established by the board.
(h) To direct the drafting of the Authority’s short and long term plans regarding the contracting and development of personnel, operations, administrative controls, marketing strategies, and all other functions necessary to ensure the Authority’s success in the effective and efficient fulfillment of its objectives.
(i) To promulgate states of emergency through administrative order stating the events that caused the emergency and the measures to be taken to arrange for and provide the necessary resources immediately. Any state of emergency thus promulgated must be notified to the board as soon as possible and not later than twenty-four hours after the occurrence of the events that led to the state of emergency. When the Governor of Puerto Rico decrees an emergency on the same date and for the same reasons, the executive director shall be relieved from issuing the order thereon, but not from notifying the board of the measures taken as provided herein.
(j) To perform all those other functions assigned to him or her by the board.
History —Aug. 11, 2002, No. 171, § 5.