Puerto Rico

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In Puerto Rico, Public corporations are separate legal entities who are owned, either entirely or in great majority, by the Government of Puerto Rico. These corporations are created to serve a public service, such as electricity, water, public financing, education, transportation, and public lands real estate. The Executive Branch of the Government of Puerto Rico is comprised of various Departments which provide public services to the citizens of Puerto Rico. ... Seal of the Governor of Puerto Rico The Governor of Puerto Rico is the Head of Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. ... Aníbal Salvador Acevedo Vilá (born February 13, 1962) is the eighth and current Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. ... The Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico is the legislative branch of the government of Puerto Rico. ... Seal of the Senate of Puerto Rico. ... The House of Representatives of Puerto Rico is the lower house of the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico, larger than the Senate. ... The Supreme Court of Puerto Rico is the highest court of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, having the ultimate judicial authority within Puerto Rico to interpret and decide questions of local commonwealth law. ... Political parties in Puerto Rico lists political parties in Puerto Rico. ... Politics of Puerto Rico Categories: Election related stubs | Elections in Puerto Rico ... The Puerto Rico General Elections of 2004 took place on Election Day, Tuesday, November 2, 2004. ... General elections will be held in Puerto Rico on 4 November 2008. ... There are no first-order administrative divisions as defined by the United States Government, but Puerto Rico has 78 municipalities at the second order. ... Information on politics by country is available for every country, including both de jure and de facto independent states, inhabited dependent territories, as well as areas of special sovereignty. ... A legal entity is a legal construct through which the law allows a group of natural persons to act as if it were a single composite individual for certain purposes. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

List of public corporations in Puerto Rico

The following are the largest public corporations in Puerto Rico:

• Puerto Rico Electric Energy Authority (Autoridad de Energia Electrica in Spanish)
• Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados in Spanish)
• Puerto Rico Public Buildings Authority (Autoridad de Edificios Publicos in Spanish)
• Puerto Rico Port Authority (Autoridad de Puertos in Spanish)
• Puerto Rico Government Development Bank (Banco Gubernamental de Fomento in Spanish)
• University of Puerto Rico
• Industrial Development Company (Compañía de Fomento Industrial in Spanish)
• Metropolitan Bus Authority (Autoridad Metropolitana de Autobuses in Spanish)

The University of Puerto Rico (UPR) is the university system of Puerto Rico. ...

See also

• Executive Departments of the Government of Puerto Rico
• Politics of Puerto Rico

The Executive Branch of the Government of Puerto Rico is comprised of various Departments which provide public services to the citizens of Puerto Rico. ... Puerto Rico is a United States territory given special commonwealth status. ...

External links

Government of Puerto Rico Organizational chart (Spanish)