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Many of the Laws of Puerto Rico (Leyes de Puerto Rico) are modeled after the Spanish Civil Code, which is part of the Law of Spain. [2]After the U.S. government assumed control of Puerto Rico in 1901, it initiated legal reforms resulting in the adoption of codes of criminal law, criminal procedure, and civil procedure modeled after those then in effect in California.
The governor of Puerto Rico (Spanish: gobernador de Puerto Rico) is the head of government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and commander-in-chief of the Puerto Rico National Guard. Currently, Jenniffer González-Colón is serving as the 190th governor of the archipelago and island.
Diagram illustrating the government organized by the Siete Leyes. Las Siete Leyes (Spanish: [las ˈsjete ˈleʝes], or Seven Laws was a constitution that fundamentally altered the organizational structure of Mexico, away from the federal structure established by the Constitution of 1824, thus ending the First Mexican Republic and creating a unitary republic, the Centralist Republic of Mexico. [1]
On March 20, 2022, during the New Progressive Party's general assembly, governor Pedro Pierluisi announced that he would run for a second term. [1] In an interview on August 28, he reaffirmed the press that he would be in fact running again, stating that "Puerto Rico is moving forward and there is no one who can stop us" and that they were "going to beat the PDP". [3]
On June 30, 2013, García Padilla signed the Redistribution and Tax Charge Adjustment Act of 2013 (Ley de Redistribución y Ajuste de la Carga Contributiva (PDF) (40). 2013. Archived February 3, 2014, at the Wayback Machine ) reducing the portion of the Puerto Rico Sales and Use Tax that municipalities charge from a 1.5% to 1.0%—effectively ...
Juan Dalmau Ramírez graduated from Notre Dame High School in Caguas, Puerto Rico.In 1995 he obtained a bachelor's degree from the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) in Political Sciences, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Puerto Rico School of Law three years later.
The Capitol of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Capitolio de Puerto Rico), also known as Casa de las Leyes (House of Laws), and most commonly referred to as El Capitolio (The Capitol), is the seat of the Legislative Assembly, or the bicameral legislature, composed of the Senate and House of Representatives, responsible for the legislative branch of the government of Puerto Rico.
The MUS had chosen Dr. Enrique Vázquez Quintana as candidate for governor. [10] However, in August 2012, Vázquez Quintana withdrew from the candidacy. A week later, he was replaced by Attorney Arturo Hernández, who was formerly president of the Puerto Rico Bar Association. [11]