2003

The Financial Institutions Commissioner’s Office shall be charged with the main responsibility of controlling and supervising the financial institutions that operate or do business in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, among its other functions provided in this chapter.\nThe Office of the Commissioner of Financial Institutions shall be deemed as an agency of public law and order for the sole purpose that it may compile and verify information that shall be obtained from and that shall be made available by the traditional agencies of public law and order of the Government of Puerto Rico on the criminal record of those persons of whom there is a need to evaluate said record for the discharge of the duties imposed by this chapter, and other acts and regulations. In case that said information is in custody of state, federal or foreign agencies of public law and order, the Office of the Commissioner of Financial Institutions shall also be recognized as such by the Government of Puerto Rico before said agencies, so that the information may be requested directly from the body in question. The information obtained, through the inherent power herein granted shall be given by the Office of the

ore said agencies, so that the information may be requested directly from the body in question. The information obtained, through the inherent power herein granted shall be given by the Office of the Commissioner of Financial Institutions that degree of confidentiality given to said information by the investigative and public law and order agency that has furnished the same.\nHistory —Oct. 11, 1985, No. 4, p. 857, § 3; Oct. 23, 1999, No. 319, § 1.