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    "ocrText": "8\nCONSTITUTION OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO\nCONSTITUTION OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO\n9\nSECTION 15.-No Senator or Representative may, during the term\nfor which he was elected or chosen, be appointed to any civil office in\nSECTION House of Representatives shall have exclusive\nthe Government of Puerto Rico, its municipalities or instrumentalities,\npower to initiate impeachment proceedings and, with the concurrence\nwhich shall have been created or the salary of which shall have been\nof two-thirds of the total number of members of which it is composed,\nincreased during said term. No person may hold office in the Govern-\nto bring an indictment. The Senate shall have exclusive power to\nment of Puerto Rico, its municipalities or instrumentalities and be a\ntry and to decide impeachment cases, and in meeting for such pur-\nSenator or Representative at the same time. These provisions shall\nposes the Senators shall act in the name of the people and under oath\nnot prevent a member of the Legislative Assembly from being desig-\nor affirmation. No judgment of conviction in an impeachment trial\nnated to perform functions ad honorem.\nshall be pronounced without the concurrence of three-fourths of the\nSECTION Legislative Assembly shall have the power to\ntotal number of members of which the Senate is composed, and the\ncreate, consolidate or reorganize executive departments and to define\njudgment shall be limited to removal from office. The person\nim-\ntheir functions.\npeached, however, may be liable and subject to indictment, trial,\nSECTION 17.-No bill shall become a law unless it has been printed,\njudgment and punishment according to law. The causes of impeach-\nread, referred to a committee and returned therefrom with a written\nment shall be treason, bribery, other felonies, and misdemeanors in-\nreport, but either house may discharge a committee from the study\nvolving moral turpitude. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court\nand report of any bill and proceed to the consideration thereof. Each\nshall preside at the impeachment trial of the Governor.\nhouse shall keep a journal of its proceedings and of the votes cast for\nThe two houses may conduct impeachment proceedings in their\nand against bills. The legislative proceedings shall be published in a\nregular or special sessions. The presiding officers of the two houses,\ndaily record in the form determined by law. Every bill, except general\nupon written request of two-thirds of the total number of members\nappropriation bills, shall be confined to one subject, which shall be\nof which the House of Representatives is composed, must convene\nclearly expressed in its title, and any part of an act whose subject has\nthem to deal with such proceedings.\nnot been expressed in the title shall be void. The general appropria-\nSECTION 22.-The Governor shall appoint a Controller with the\ntion act shall contain only appropriations and rules for their disburse-\nadvice and consent of a majority of the total number of members of\nment. No bill shall be amended in a manner that changes its original\nwhich each house is composed. The Controller shall meet the require-\npurpose or incorporates matters extraneous to it. In amending any\nments prescribed by law and shall hold office for a term of ten years\narticle or section of a law, said article or section shall be promulgated\nand until his successor has been appointed and qualifies. The Con-\nin its entirety as amended. All bills for raising revenue shall originate\ntroller shall audit all the revenues accounts and expenditures of the\nin the House of Representatives, but the Senate may propose or concur\nCommonwealth, of its agencies and instrumentalities and of its munici-\nwith amendments as on other bills.\npalities, in order to determine whether they have been made in\nSECTION 18.-The subjects which may be dealt with by means of\naccordance with law. He shall render annual reports and any special\njoint resolution shall be determined by law, but every joint resolution\nreports that may be required of him by the Legislative Assembly or\nshall follow the same legislative process as that of a bill.\nby the Governor.\nSECTION 9.-Every bill which is approved by a majority of the\nIn the performance of his duties the Controller shall be authorized\ntotal number of members of which each house is composed shall be\nto administer oaths, take evidence and compel, under pain of contempt,\nsubmitted to the Governor and shall become law if he signs it or if he\nthe attendance of witnesses and the production of books, letters,\ndoes not return it, with his objections, to the house in which it orgi-\ndocuments, papers, records and all other articles deemed essential to\nnated within ten days (Sundays excepted) counting from the date on\na full understanding of the matter under investigation.\nwhich he shall have received it.\nThe Controller may be removed for the causes and pursuant to\nWhen the Governor returns a bill, the house that receives it shall enter\nthe procedure established in the preceding section.\nhis objections on its journal and both houses may reconsider it. If\napproved by two-thirds of the total number of members of which\nARTICLE IV\neach house is composed, said bill shall become law.\nTHE EXECUTIVE\nIf the Legislative Assembly adjourns sine die before the Governor\nhas acted on a bill that has been presented to him less than ten days\nSECTION 1.-The executive power shall be vested in a Governor,\nbefore, he is relieved of the obligation of returning it with his objec-\nwho shall be elected by direct vote in each general election.\ntions and the bill shall become law only if the Governor signs it within\nSECTION 2.-The Governor shall hold office for the term of four\nthirty days after receiving it.\nyears from the second day of January of the year following his elec-\nEvery final passage or reconsideration of a bill shall be by a roll-\ntion and until his successor has been elected and qualifies. He shall\ncall vote.\nreside in Puerto Rico and maintain his office in its capital city.\nSECTION 20.-In approving any appropriation bill that contains\nSECTION 3.-No person shall be Governor unless, on the date of\nmore than one item, the Governor may eliminate one or more of such\nthe election, he is at least thirty-five years of age, and is and has\nitems or reduce their amounts, at the same time reducing the total\nbeen during the preceding five years a citizen of the United States\namounts involved.\nand a citizen and bona fide resident of Puerto Rico."
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