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The Office of the Commissioner of Municipal Affairs shall be directed by a Commissioner appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate of Puerto Rico. The Commissioner shall be directly responsible to the Governor of Puerto Rico in the performance of his/her duties. The Commissioner shall be a person of recognized moral probity. He/she cannot be a municipal legislator, nor have held the office of mayor during the eight (8) years prior to his/her appointment; nor during the four (4) years prior to his/her appointment to have sought or campaigned to hold office in the directorate or the organization of a political party or of a committee or body of a political party, be it at central, regional or municipal government level or at an electoral ward or unit, nor to have run for elective public office in general or special elections nor to have been nominated as candidate to elective public office during primary elections. While holding office, he/she may not seek or campaign to hold office in the directorate or the organization of a political party or committee nor run for or be nominated for an elective office.\nThe Governor of Puerto Rico shall fix the annual

campaign to hold office in the directorate or the organization of a political party or committee nor run for or be nominated for an elective office.\nThe Governor of Puerto Rico shall fix the annual salary of the Commissioner in accordance with the standards applied in the central government for offices of the same or similar nature and level of responsibility. The Commissioner may avail him/herself of the benefits of §§ 761 et seq. of Title 3, known as the 'Retirement System for Employees of the Government of Puerto Rico and its Instrumentalities', and of §§ 862 et seq. of Title 3, which created the Commonwealth Employees Savings and Loan Fund.\nHistory —Aug. 30, 1991, No. 81, § 19.003; Sept. 28, 2006, No. 216, § 1.