P.R. Laws tit. 22, § 236
Upon the taking effect of the conveyance of the Hydroelectric System as provided in §§ 232—237 of this title, the Authority shall take over such employees of the Isabela Irrigation Service as may be holding regular established positions. Any other provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding, the officials and employees who, on the date of approval of this act, were members of the Employees’ Retirement System of the Government of Puerto Rico and its Instrumentalities shall have the option, if so requested in writing to the Electric Power Authority, within a term of 180 days from the date this act is approved, of choosing between to continue contributing to the above-mentioned Retirement System or to transfer their credits and contributions to the Employees’ Retirement System of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority and becoming members of said System. The credits and contributions of employees, who within the term indicated choose to become members of the Employees’ Retirement System of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority shall be transferred from the Employees’ Retirement System of the Government of Puerto Rico and its Instrumentalities to the Employees’ Retirement System of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, pursuant to the terms and conditions provided by the Reciprocity Act, §§ 797—806 of Title 3, for such transfers between government retirement systems. The Electric Power Authority shall, with respect to said officials and employees, assume the same obligations imposed upon the Isabela Irrigation Service by Act No. 177 of April 30, 1952, which amended §§ 781 and 783 of Title 3. During the first six months following the effective date of such conveyance, the rates of compensation to be paid by the Authority to said employees and to such other as it may be necessary to hire for work in the present district of the Isabela Irrigation Service, shall be the same rates of compensation prevailing for the Isabela Irrigation Service at the time of such conveyance. At the expiration of the said six-month period and within an immediately subsequent period of six (6) months, the Authority shall adjust the compensation of such employees as it may require for the operation of the properties hereby conveyed and those of the Isabela Irrigation Service in keeping with the job classification system of the Authority. During this latter six-month period such employees as are not required for the operation of the said properties shall be given employment priority by the Authority and by the Office of Personnel of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, any other provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding.
History —June 20, 1955, No. 84, p. 326, § 5; July 7, 1973, No. 1, p. 813.