Puerto Rico Department of State (oversight of municipalities)

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government agency territorial government agency

The Puerto Rico Department of State (oversight of municipalities) is a territorial government agency responsible for supervising and coordinating the legal and administrative affairs of Puerto Rico’s municipal governments.

Aliases (2)

Statements (30)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	government agency → territorial government agency →
appointedBy	Governor of Puerto Rico →
coordinates	intergovernmental relations between municipalities and central government →
coordinatesWith	municipal legislatures of Puerto Rico → municipal mayors of Puerto Rico →
country	Puerto Rico →
ensures	legal conformity of municipal actions with Puerto Rico law →
hasRole	coordination of municipal administrative affairs → coordination of municipal legal affairs → oversight of municipalities → supervision of municipal governments →
headedBy	Secretary of State of Puerto Rico →
jurisdiction	Puerto Rico → surface form: "Commonwealth of Puerto Rico"
languageOfWork	English → Spanish →
legalStatus	executive department of Puerto Rico →
locatedIn	Puerto Rico →
oversightOf	Puerto Rico Department of State (oversight of municipalities) → surface form: "municipal governments of Puerto Rico" municipalities of Puerto Rico →
partOf	Government of Puerto Rico →
responsibleFor	administrative affairs of municipalities → legal affairs of municipalities → maintaining official records related to municipalities → municipal governments of Puerto Rico → registration of certain municipal legal instruments →
seat	San Juan, Puerto Rico →
supervises	administrative procedures of municipal governments → compliance of municipalities with territorial laws →
typeOfJurisdiction	territorial →

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Puerto Rico Department of State (oversight of municipalities) → oversightOf → Puerto Rico Department of State (oversight of municipalities) →

subject surface form: "Puerto Rico Department of State"

this entity surface form: "municipal governments of Puerto Rico"

Municipal government of San Juan → subordinateTo → Puerto Rico Department of State (oversight of municipalities) →