P.R. Laws tit. 22, § 902
A body corporate and politic with corporate franchise is hereby created and established, to be ruled by a Governing Board, whose members shall be appointed by the Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico with the advice and consent of the Senate, and shall bear the name of Public Buildings Authority. The Authority is hereby constituted as an instrumentality of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, exercising public and essential functions of the Government, and the execution by the Authority of the powers conferred by §§ 901—917 of this title, shall be deemed and understood to be an essential function of the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
It is declared and established as public policy of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico that its agencies, instrumentalities, public corporations and other government dependencies shall promote and support the contracting of the services of the Public Buildings Authority in order to fulfill the design, construction, remodeling, improvements, operations and maintenance needs of the structures needed for rendering its services. This, without implying that those agencies, instrumentalities, corporations and other government dependencies in which such services are traditionally provided by their own employees or contracted for with other entities are obligated to use the services promoted by the Public Buildings Authority; provided there are no contradictions with other provisions of §§ 901—917 of this title.
History —June 19, 1958, No. 56, p. 120, § 1; July 2, 1991, No. 18, § 3; May 16, 2006, No. 97, § 2.