Title 48, Territories and Insular PossessionsRelease 119-110
§2129 Ethics
Title 48 › CHAPTER 20 — PUERTO RICO OVERSIGHT, MANAGEMENT, AND ECONOMIC STABILITY › SUBCHAPTER I — ESTABLISHMENT AND ORGANIZATION OF OVERSIGHT BOARD › § 2129
Summary
All Oversight Board members and staff must follow the federal conflict-of-interest law in section 208 of title 18, even if the covered territory has different ethics rules. All Board members and any staff the Board names must file financial disclosure reports that meet the rules in section 13104 of title 5, even if local rules say something else.
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Title 48, §2129
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(a)Conflict of interest
Notwithstanding any ethics provision governing employees of the covered territory, all members and staff of the Oversight Board shall be subject to the Federal conflict of interest requirements described in section 208 of title 18.
(b)Financial disclosure
Notwithstanding any ethics provision governing employees of the covered territory, all members of the Oversight Board and staff designated by the Oversight Board shall be subject to disclosure of their financial interests, the contents of which shall conform to the same requirements set forth in section 13104 of title 5.
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2022—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 117–286 substituted “section 13104 of title 5.” for “section 102 of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.).”
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48 U.S.C. § 2129
Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions
Last Updated
Sep 22, 2026
Release point: 119-110