No person who has a relationship to a third degree of consanguinity or second degree of affinity with any of the members of the Legislature may be appointed as an employee or official, nor contracted to render services for any remuneration whatsoever in the Legislature of Puerto Rico, its Committees, dependencies or attached offices. The provisions set forth in this section shall not apply to persons to whom the aforementioned kinship arrives after their appointment or original contracting.
History —May 5, 1941, No. 99, p. 760, added as § 1 on June 26, 1980, No. 9, p. 886, § 1; May 15, 2003, No. 129, § 1.