Esta ley enmienda la Ley Núm. 42 de 12 de mayo de 1980, que creó la Corporación de las Artes Escénicas de Puerto Rico, para garantizar la participación y el trato preferencial de artistas puertorriqueños en actividades de artes escénicas, especialmente cuando se contratan artistas o grupos musicales extranjeros. También busca valorar la música típica puertorriqueña como parte del acervo cultural.
To add subsection
(k) to Section 3 of Act No. 42 of May 12, 1980, as amended, by means of which "The Puerto Rico Performing Arts Corporation" was created, for purposes of guaranteeing the participation and preferential treatment of Puerto Rican artists in performing arts activities.
Culture, in all its manifestations, is that which maintains the sense of unity and the reason of being of the people throughout time. Folklore expressed through music and song is the ultimate manifestation of a culture, because it gathers within itself the feelings, customs, history, and origin of the nations.
The people die when their culture dies. Therefore, those who love their country are duty bound to maintain the historic trajectory of their culture alive, as a legacy for future generations that shall take the baton that shall maintain the flame of our culture and history alive.
Puerto Rico is a country that gathers, preserves, and transmits a large part of its history through its music and song. However, in the last few years we have seen how foreign music has taken the place of our own in all artistic, social, and cultural activities performed on the Island.
Aware of this situation, the Legislative Assembly approved Act No. 42 of May 12, 1980, which created The Puerto Rico Performing Arts
Corporation. Among the duties of this Corporation is that of "providing the most ample participation and preferential treatment to Puerto Rican artists."
Notwithstanding the foregoing disposition of law, our music and our performers have continued to be displaced from different shows and artistic productions that have been presented on stage in Puerto Rico.
By means of the Act herein, the Puerto Rico Performing Arts Corporation is required to guarantee the participation of our artists and performers.
For all of the aforementioned considerations, the amendment proposed herein is necessary and meritorious for purposes of the protection of our local artists, as well as our typical music, to minimize the unemployment of our local artists, and to reduce the exodus of Puerto Rican performers.
Section 1.-Subsection
(k) is added to Article 3 of Act No. 42 of May 12, 1980, as amended, to read as follows: "Section 3.-Powers The Performing Arts Corporation shall be empowered and may exercise the following general powers, in addition to those conferred by other provisions of this Act:
(a) (b)
(c) (d)
(e) (f)
(g) (h)
(i) $\qquad$
(j) $\qquad$
(k) To set forth the necessary norms and regulations to guarantee the participation and contracting of Puerto Rican artists in performance art activities for which foreign artists or musical groups have been contracted. Likewise, to value our typical music, which constitutes a significant part of our cultural array."
Section 2.-This Act shall take effect immediately after its approval.
I hereby certify to the Secretary of State that the following Act No. 46 (H.B. 635) of the $4^{ ext {th }}$ Session of the $14^{ ext {th }}$ Legislature of Puerto Rico:
AN ACT to add subsection
(k) to Section 3 of Act No. 42 of May 12, 1980, as amended, by means of which "The Puerto Rico Performing Arts Corporation" was created, for purposes of guaranteeing the participation and preferential treatment of Puerto Rican artists in performing arts activities, has been translated from Spanish to English and that the English version is correct.
In San Juan, Puerto Rico, today $31^{ ext {st }}$ of January of 2004.
Elba Rosa Rodríguez-Fuentes Director