P.R. Laws tit. 3, § 163
There is hereby directed the creation of a committee composed by the Board on Environmental Quality, the Secretary of Justice and an additional number of members appointed by the Governor until completing eleven (11) so that from the date of the effectiveness of this act it may carry out a study in which there shall be determined the functions and programs of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico which shall be transferred to the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources by reason of their close relations with the operational phase of the problems or of the environmental affairs which shall fall under the jurisdiction of the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources.
The Governor is hereby empowered to transfer to the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources, by Executive Order, any offices, functions and programs of the Government of the Commonwealth, as well as its personnel, properties, archives and budgetary funds which in accordance with the recommendations issued by the Committee created herein, shall continue their functions under the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources by reason of administering programs related with the problems or environmental affairs or otherwise provide for the development and environmental welfare. The Governor shall send a copy of every executive order providing for one or more of such transfers to the Legislature for its information in the regular or special session nearest to the date in which the order is issued.
No program, board, office, dependency or organization created by law may be transferred through executive order to the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources.
History —June 20, 1972, No. 23, p. 415, § 13, eff. Jan. 2, 1973.