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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART V - Right to Employment and Rest (§§ 1101 — 1404) › Chapter 75 - Discrimination in Employment for Reasons of Gender (§§ 1321 — 1341) › § 1326 - Unfair labor practices—Apprenticeship, training or retraining programs
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It shall be an unfair labor practice for an employer, labor union or joint labor-management committee that controls apprenticeship, training or retraining programs, including on-the-job training programs, to discriminate against any person on account of his or her sex.
History —July 6, 1985, No. 69, p. 236, § 6.
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART V - Right to Employment and Rest (§§ 1101 — 1404)›Chapter 75 - Discrimination in Employment for Reasons of Gender (§§ 1321 — 1341)›§ 1327 - Unfair labor practices—Actions not included
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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART V - Right to Employment and Rest (§§ 1101 — 1404) › Chapter 75 - Discrimination in Employment for Reasons of Gender (§§ 1321 — 1341) › § 1327 - Unfair labor practices—Actions not included
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Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter, it shall not be deemed as an unfair labor practice:
(a) For an employer to contract or recruit employees; for an employment agency to classify or refer any person for employment; for a labor union to classify its members, or classify or refer any person for employment; that an employer, labor union, joint labor-management committee that controls apprenticeship, training or retraining programs admits or recruits any person in any of said programs, based on their sex, in those circumstances in which the sex of the person is a reasonably necessary bona fide job requirement for the normal operation of said specific firm or business.
(b) For an employer to fix several types of compensation, or different working terms, conditions or privileges as the result of a bona fide merit or seniority system or a system which measures profits in terms of quantity or quality of the production, or to employees that work in different positions, provided said differences are not the outcome of an intention to discriminate on account of sex.
(c) That an employer acts according to the results of a professional ability test, provided that the test, its administration and the action taken with respect thereof is not designed or used to discriminate on account of the person’s sex.
History —July 6, 1985, No. 69, p. 236, § 7.
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART V - Right to Employment and Rest (§§ 1101 — 1404)›Chapter 75 - Discrimination in Employment for Reasons of Gender (§§ 1321 — 1341)›§ 1328 - Unfair labor practices—Bona fide job requirement
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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART V - Right to Employment and Rest (§§ 1101 — 1404) › Chapter 75 - Discrimination in Employment for Reasons of Gender (§§ 1321 — 1341) › § 1328 - Unfair labor practices—Bona fide job requirement
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The exception to the job classification on account of sex based on the term “bona fide job requirement” as defined in this chapter shall be interpreted restrictively.
To such purposes, the following situations, without being a limitation, do not justify the use of the bona fide job requirement exception:
(a) To refuse to employ a woman on account of her sex, based on the presumptions of comparative employment characteristics of women in general.
(b) To refuse to hire a person using stereotyped descriptions of the sexes. The nondiscrimination principle requires that individuals be considered on the grounds of their individual characteristics and not on the grounds of any characteristic currently attributed to the group.
(c) To refuse to hire a person because of the fellow-workers’, employer’s or client’s preferences.
Sex shall be deemed a bona fide job requirement when it is necessary for the purpose of authenticity or legitimacy.
History —July 6, 1985, No. 69, p. 236, § 8.
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART V - Right to Employment and Rest (§§ 1101 — 1404)›Chapter 75 - Discrimination in Employment for Reasons of Gender (§§ 1321 — 1341)›§ 1329 - Unfair labor practices—Arbitrary classification of jobs policy
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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART V - Right to Employment and Rest (§§ 1101 — 1404) › Chapter 75 - Discrimination in Employment for Reasons of Gender (§§ 1321 — 1341) › § 1329 - Unfair labor practices—Arbitrary classification of jobs policy
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(a) Subsection (b) of § 1327 of this title provides that merit or seniority systems may be established and classifications may be made according to sex if this is a “bona fide job requirement” for said specific job. To this purpose, we deem that job policies are unfair when they arbitrarily classify jobs to:
(1) Prohibit a woman from applying for a job classified “for men”, or a job on the assembly line for “men”, and vice versa.
(2) Prohibit a man who is to be suspended to displace a woman with less seniority on a “women’s seniority list”, and vice versa.
(b) A seniority or merit system which establishes a difference between “light and heavy” work is an unfair labor practice if it operates as a means to disguise a classification by sex, or establishes unreasonable obstacles to the progress of members of either sex for jobs that either sex could reasonably perform.
History —July 6, 1985, No. 69, p. 236, § 9.
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Any rule or regulation of an employer which prohibits or limits the employment of married women, and which does not apply to married men is discrimination on account of sex, which is forbidden by this chapter.
Sex as a bona fide job requirement must be justified in terms of specific job requirements and not based on general principles such as the desirability of distributing employment.
History —July 6, 1985, No. 69, p. 236, § 10.
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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART V - Right to Employment and Rest (§§ 1101 — 1404) › Chapter 75 - Discrimination in Employment for Reasons of Gender (§§ 1321 — 1341) › § 1331 - Unfair labor practices—Advertisement
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It shall be a violation of this chapter to include in an advertisement or notice of a job offering, a preference, limitation, specification or discrimination on account of sex, unless sex is a “bona fide job requirement” as defined in this chapter for the specific job indicated.
Placing a notice in columns classified by the editors according to sex, such as “men” or “women” shall be deemed as a statement of preference, limitation, specification, or discrimination on account of sex.
History —July 6, 1985, No. 69, p. 236, § 11.
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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART V - Right to Employment and Rest (§§ 1101 — 1404) › Chapter 75 - Discrimination in Employment for Reasons of Gender (§§ 1321 — 1341) › § 1332 - Unfair labor practices—Interviews
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Any question asked before employing a person, with regard to future employment, which directly or indirectly indicates any limitation, specification or discrimination on account of sex shall be illegal unless it is made on the basis of a bona fide job requirement.
History —July 6, 1985, No. 69, p. 236, § 12.
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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART V - Right to Employment and Rest (§§ 1101 — 1404) › Chapter 75 - Discrimination in Employment for Reasons of Gender (§§ 1321 — 1341) › § 1333 - Unfair labor practices—Fringe benefits
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(a) It shall be an unfair labor practice for an employer to discriminate between men and women with regard to fringe benefits.
(b) It shall be an unfair labor practice for an employer to condition the benefits available to his employees, their spouses or dependents, to employees who are heads of families or who receive higher wages, since these conditions are not related to their yield on the job, which is a violation of the provisions of this chapter.
(c) It shall be an unfair labor practice for an employer to grant benefits to the wives and dependents of male workers, when these benefits are not granted to the husbands and dependents of female workers; to grant benefits to the wives of male workers when said benefits are not granted to the husbands of female workers; to grant benefits to the husbands of female workers when said benefits are not available for the wives of male workers.
(d) It shall not be a defense under the provisions of this chapter, when an employer is accused of discrimination with regard to fringe benefits on account of sex, that the costs of said benefits are higher for one sex than the other.
(e) It shall be an unfair labor practice for an employer to implement a retirement or pension system which establishes different optional or compulsory retirement ages based on sex or which establishes differences in benefits based on sex.
History —July 6, 1985, No. 69, p. 236, § 13.
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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART V - Right to Employment and Rest (§§ 1101 — 1404) › Chapter 75 - Discrimination in Employment for Reasons of Gender (§§ 1321 — 1341) › § 1334 - Unfair labor practices—Exclusion for pregnancy, childbirth or related conditions
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(a) It shall be an unfair labor practice for an employer, through a written or verbal policy or practice, to exclude applicants or employees from employment on account of pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions.
(b) Disabilities caused or attributed to pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, for purposes related to employment, shall receive the same treatment as other disabilities caused or attributed to other medical conditions.
History —July 6, 1985, No. 69, p. 236, § 14.
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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART V - Right to Employment and Rest (§§ 1101 — 1404) › Chapter 75 - Discrimination in Employment for Reasons of Gender (§§ 1321 — 1341) › § 1335 - Relevant records and reports to Secretary
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(a) Any employer, labor union or joint labor-management committee shall keep and preserve such records that are relevant to determine whether the unfair labor practices mentioned herein are being committed for periods of two (2) years.
(b) Every employer, labor union or joint labor-management committee shall render a report of such records as determined by the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources through regulations approved to such effects after public hearings have been held, to implement and enforce the provisions of this chapter.
The Secretary of Labor and Human Resources through regulations shall require every employer, labor union or joint labor-management committee to control any apprenticeship or training program, keep and preserve the records needed to implement this chapter, including, but not limited to a list of applicants or candidates for employment who wish to participate in such programs, as well as the chronological order in which the applications were received, and shall provide to the Secretary upon his written request a detailed description of the way the persons are selected to participate in apprenticeship or training programs.
History —July 6, 1985, No. 69, p. 236, § 15.
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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART V - Right to Employment and Rest (§§ 1101 — 1404) › Chapter 75 - Discrimination in Employment for Reasons of Gender (§§ 1321 — 1341) › § 1336 - Secretary; enforcement and regulations
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The duty of enforcing compliance of this chapter is hereby imposed on the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources.
The Secretary of Labor and Human Resources is hereby empowered to adopt any rules or regulations needed to enforce the implementation and purposes of this chapter. All such rules and regulations shall have the force of law after having been approved by the Governor and duly promulgated.
The Secretary of Labor and Human Resources or his representative is hereby authorized to perform all the investigations and inspections he deems are necessary and convenient, on his own initiative or pursuant to a complaint filed by a person, to determine whether an employer, labor union or joint labor-management committee has failed to enforce the provisions of this chapter and have them enforced, and to obtain information that is useful for the administration of any of its provisions.
Any employer, labor union or joint labor-management committee, their officials, employees, agents and representatives thus investigated shall present and make available to the Secretary such records, documents or files under their control related to the matter under investigation.
The Secretary of Labor and Human Resources or any employee of the Department designated by him is hereby authorized in the exercise of such powers and duties to conduct public hearings, summon witnesses, take oaths, accept testimony, and, in compliance with these provisions, may issue subpoenas, require the presence of witnesses and presentation of data, information, or documentary and any other type of evidence, and shall also examine and copy books, records and any documents or papers of said employer or labor union, and request any other information with the purpose of meeting the provisions of this chapter; and may also resort to the Court of First Instance of Puerto Rico to plead that any summons or order issued by the Secretary be complied with. Noncompliance of a judicial order allowing such pleading shall constitute contempt of court.
The Department of Labor and Human Resources’ attorneys may act as prosecutors with all the power and authority of the District Attorneys, in all criminal actions that arise under the provisions of this chapter.
History —July 6, 1985, No. 69, p. 236, § 16.
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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART V - Right to Employment and Rest (§§ 1101 — 1404) › Chapter 75 - Discrimination in Employment for Reasons of Gender (§§ 1321 — 1341) › § 1337 - Injunctions
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Jurisdiction is hereby conferred on the parts of the Court of First Instance of San Juan, by petition of the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources, to issue injunctions and grant any other remedies at law that are needed to enforce the terms of this chapter and ensure compliance of the regulations, orders and determinations issued by the Secretary of Labor and Human Relations, pursuant to the powers conferred on him by this chapter.
History —July 6, 1985, No. 69, p. 236, § 17.
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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART V - Right to Employment and Rest (§§ 1101 — 1404) › Chapter 75 - Discrimination in Employment for Reasons of Gender (§§ 1321 — 1341) › § 1338 - Civil claims
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Original concurrent jurisdiction is hereby conferred on the Court of First Instance and the District Court in all cases arising under this chapter. Civil claims may be prosecuted by ordinary proceedings or through the complaint procedure established by §§ 3118 et seq. of Title 32.
Claims filed by several or all job aspirants against a common employer or labor union may be joined in a single action.
The Secretary of Labor and Human Resources, on his own initiative or at the request of one or more employees or job aspirants having an interest in the matter, and in representation and for the benefit of one or more of them who are undergoing similar circumstances, may order the payment of any amount owed to them or the fulfillment of any right conferred by this chapter. Any employee or job applicant with interest in the action may join in any suit thus instituted by the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources, who, likewise, may join in any action brought by any employee or job aspirant under the terms of this chapter.
In any judgment issued against any employer or labor union, the costs and a reasonable sum which shall never be less than three hundred dollars ($300) for attorney’s fees, if he is not a Department of Labor Attorney, shall be imposed on them.
History —July 6, 1985, No. 69, p. 236, § 18.
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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART V - Right to Employment and Rest (§§ 1101 — 1404) › Chapter 75 - Discrimination in Employment for Reasons of Gender (§§ 1321 — 1341) › § 1339 - Publicity of summary
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Every employer, labor union or joint labor-management committee shall place a summary of the provisions of this chapter prepared and furnished by the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources, in a clearly visible place in their establishment.
History —July 6, 1985, No. 69, p. 236, § 19.
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART V - Right to Employment and Rest (§§ 1101 — 1404)›Chapter 75 - Discrimination in Employment for Reasons of Gender (§§ 1321 — 1341)›§ 1340 - Dismissal on grounds of sex and other unfair labor practices
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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART V - Right to Employment and Rest (§§ 1101 — 1404) › Chapter 75 - Discrimination in Employment for Reasons of Gender (§§ 1321 — 1341) › § 1340 - Dismissal on grounds of sex and other unfair labor practices
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It shall be an unfair labor practice for an employer, labor union or joint labor-management committee that controls apprenticeship, training or retraining programs, including on-the-job training programs, to dismiss or discriminate against any employee or participant who files a complaint or charge, or is opposed to discriminatory practices, or participates in an investigation or suit for discriminatory practices against the employer, labor union or joint labor-management committee.
—July 6, 1985, No. 69, p. 236, § 20.
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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART V - Right to Employment and Rest (§§ 1101 — 1404) › Chapter 75 - Discrimination in Employment for Reasons of Gender (§§ 1321 — 1341) › § 1341 - Civil and criminal liability for violations
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Any person, employer and labor union, as they are defined herein, who is guilty of anything prohibited by this chapter:
(a) Shall incur civil liability:
(1) For a sum equal to twice the amount of damages said action caused the employee or job applicant;
(2) or for a sum of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), in the discretion of the court, if no monetary damages can be determined;
(3) twice the amount of the damages caused if it were less than the sum of one hundred dollars ($100), and
(b) shall also be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be punished with a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100), nor more than five hundred dollars ($500), or imprisonment for a term of not less than thirty (30) days nor more than ninety (90) days, or both penalties, at the discretion of the court.
The court may direct the employer to reinstate the employee in his job, and to cease and desist the activity in question, in the judgment he issues in civil actions filed under the above provisions.
History —July 6, 1985, No. 69, p. 236, § 21.
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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART V - Right to Employment and Rest (§§ 1101 — 1404) › Chapter 76 - Discrimination on the Basis of a Person’s Genetic Information (§§ 1351 — 1358) › § 1351 - Definitions
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(a) Person.— Any person defined as such in any applicable law, including the Civil Code of Puerto Rico.
(b) Employer.— Any executive, supervisor, or any person who directly or indirectly performs duties of an executive nature in the interest of an employer. It shall include any individual, partnership, or organization intervening on behalf of the employer in any labor dispute or collective bargaining.
(c) Employee.— Any worker, day laborer, artisan, laborer, clerk, retail clerk, and any other person who is employed for a salary, wage, daily wage, or any other type of compensation in any occupation, establishment, business, or industry.
(d) Merit Principle.— As defined in subsection [(42)] of § 1461 of Title 3, better known as the “Public Service Human Resources Administration Act of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico”.
(e) Health plan.— As defined in subsection (r) of § 9003 of Title 26, better known as the “Puerto Rico Health Insurance Code”.
(f) Genetic tests.— Any analysis of the deoxyribonucleic acid, “DNA”; ribonucleic acid, “RNA”; chromosomes; proteins; or metabolites that detects genotypes, mutations, or chromosomal changes. This definition shall not include the analyses of proteins or metabolites which do not detect genotypes, mutations, or chromosomal changes.
(g) Genetic services.— Any type of genetic test or genetic counseling, including the obtaining, interpreting, or assessing genetic information.
(h) Genetic monitoring.— Means the periodic examination of employees to evaluate acquired modifications to their genetic material, such as chromosomal damage or evidence of increased occurrence of mutations that may have developed in the course of employment due to exposure to toxic substances in the workplace, in order to identify, evaluate, and respond to the detrimental effects of such an exposure.
History —Sept. 9, 2013, No. 107, § 2.
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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART V - Right to Employment and Rest (§§ 1101 — 1404) › Chapter 76 - Discrimination on the Basis of a Person’s Genetic Information (§§ 1351 — 1358) › § 1352 - Prohibition
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The use of genetic information is hereby banned when making decisions regarding employment in government agencies, public corporations, municipalities and instrumentalities of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the private sector, and unions. This ban shall apply to all aspects of the employment, including the hiring, salary, job duties, promotions, dismissals, training, fringe benefits, bonuses, or any other terms or conditions of employment.
Moreover, the hiring, selection, promotion, fringe benefits, training, or transfers shall be conducted in accordance with the merit principle as it is defined in subsection (d) of § 1351 of this title. Employers from both the government and the private sector are hereby banned from requiring that their employees or job applicants submit themselves to genetic tests, or from acquiring the genetic information of the employee or applicant by purchasing it or any other means. An employer shall not use genetic information to make employment decisions because said information is not relevant to determine the ability of a person to work. As an exception, the use of genetic information is permitted for the sole purpose of evaluating requests for reasonable accommodation in cases in which the disability that is claimed is one which is reflected in the genetic information of a person. Likewise, the use of genetic information is permitted to aid the employees with issues related to their health or wellbeing; or to monitor the genetic material due to the effects of toxic substances in the workplace; or when certain specific conditions are met such as:
(1) The employees provide their informed consent in writing, and such consent shall be given knowingly, freely, and voluntary, without coercion, violence, or intimidation for the purpose of providing his genetic information; and
(2) the monitoring is authorized by virtue of any federal or state provision.
History —Sept. 9, 2013, No. 107, § 2[sic]
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To ensure the protection of the confidentiality of the information, all employers, employment agencies, labor organizations, or management committees that possess the genetic information of an employee shall maintain such information in separate files and shall treat it as confidential medical records. This information may be disclosed under various circumstances such as:
(1) The employee himself knowingly provides express written authorization for the disclosure of the information because he is receiving a service or treatment.
(2) To an occupational health researcher, if the research is conducted in compliance with the federal regulations in Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
(3) In response to an order of a court with jurisdiction provided that:
(a) The employer, employment agency, or labor organization only disclose the genetic information specified in the order; and
(b) That the employer, employment agency, or labor organization inform the employee that the information is being disclosed pursuant to a court order.
(4) To government personnel who are investigating an issue under this chapter; and
(5) The disclosure is requested pursuant to the health certification provisions for the granting of a family medical leave, in accordance with the Family Medical Leave Act, Pub. L. 103-3, 29 U.S.C. sec. 2601; the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, Pub. L. 104-191, 110 Stat. 1936, better known as the HIPAA Act; as well as with §§ 411-413 of this title, known as the “Health Certification Act of Puerto Rico”.
(6) To a federal or state public health agency for the sole purpose of learning relevant information to diagnose any contagious disease or other condition that affects the life and safety of the person.
History —Sept. 9, 2013, No. 107, § 3.
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Group health plans and public or private health insurance providers are hereby banned from denying a person individual or group coverage based solely on the genetic predisposition to developing an illness in the future. Health insurance providers shall not require that individuals provide their genetic information, their family’s information, or that of any family member for the purpose of being eligible for insurance coverage or for a certain premium. Likewise, providers shall not use the genetic information, directly or indirectly, to make decisions regarding the benefits and services covered by a plan; in addition, providers shall not request or require that persons or any members of their families submit themselves to genetic tests; and the information shall not be used in any Medicare supplemental policy to deny coverage due to a preexisting condition, as established in the federal Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, Pub. L. 110-233, 122 Stat. 881, of May 21, 2008.
History —Sept. 9, 2013, No. 107 § 4.
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Genetic information includes any information obtained from persons or their family members through genetic medical tests or genetic services, the manifestation of an illness or health disorder in any of the family members of a person, as well as the genetic information obtained as a result of a request for genetic services or having received such services, or obtained by participating in a clinical research study which includes genetic services for a person or their family members. The term genetic information excludes information regarding the person’s age and sex.
History —Sept. 9, 2013, No. 107 § 5.
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Any public or private natural or juridical person that discriminates by virtue of the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a felony and punished with a fine of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for the first offense. Fines for repeat offenses shall be in the amount of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000).
History —Sept. 9, 2013, No. 107 § 6.
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(a) Any person who has been discriminated against on the basis of genetic information may file a claim for damages against any natural or juridical person who engages in the discrimination described in this chapter.
(b) When a person with legal standing to bring suit is unable to do so for any reason, his tutor, heir, or successor may file such claim. This action shall have a statute of limitation of one (1) year as of the date in which the person discriminated against, his tutor, heir or successor learns of the discrimination.
History —Sept. 9, 2013, No. 107 §§ 7, 8.
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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART V - Right to Employment and Rest (§§ 1101 — 1404) › Chapter 76 - Discrimination on the Basis of a Person’s Genetic Information (§§ 1351 — 1358) › § 1358 - Payment for damages
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The payment for damages by the respondent in a tort case shall be for an amount equal to three times the sum of the damages the action has caused the person.
History —Sept. 9, 2013, No. 107 § 9.
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For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the meaning set forth hereinbelow:
(a) Qualified person with a disability.— Means the person whose physical or emotional disability substantially affects one or more of the main activities in his/her life, and that, with or without reasonable accommodation, is capable of performing essential tasks of the position he/she is holding or applying for, and that he/she meets all other job requirements, such as experience, academic preparation and having approved the job examination, if there is any, without the aid of the five (5) additional points or five percent (5%) to which the person shall be entitled after having approved it.
(b) Reasonable accommodation.— Means the suitable or reasonable logical adjustment that allows or enables a qualified person with physical, mental or sensory limitations, to execute or perform the assigned tasks, or an occupational description or definition. It includes adjustments in the work area, construction of physical facilities, acquisition of specialized equipment, availability of readers, assistants, drivers or interpreters and any other action that may reasonably enable the adjustment of a person with physical, mental or sensory limitations in his workplace, and which does not represent an extremely onerous effort in financial terms.
It also means the adequate or suitable adaptation, modification, measure or adjustment that must be carried out by private and public institutions to allow or enable a qualified person with a disability to participate in society and become apart thereof in all aspects, including, work, training, education, transportation, housing, recreation and acquisition of goods and services.
History —July 27, 1996, No. 81, § 2.
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The Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, its agencies, instrumentalities, dependencies, public or quasi public corporations and municipalities and all private, natural or juridical persons who operate businesses in Puerto Rico with fifteen or more employees, and who as part of their requirements for employment require that the applicant pass an examination or test, shall be bound to:
(a) Add five (5) points or five percent (5%), whichever is greater, to the score obtained by a disabled person in any test or examination required in order to qualify for a job, whether to be hired or promoted, when as part of their requirements for employment they require that the applicant pass an examination or test. The benefits of this subsection shall not apply if the disabled person who applies for promotion or admission to a position, employment or job opportunity qualifies to receive the benefits conferred by Act No. 13 of October 3, 1980, known as the “Puerto Rican Veteran’s Bill of Rights”, which grants an additional five (5) points or five percent (5%), whichever is greater, to the score obtained by a veteran in any test or examination required in order to qualify for employment, whether to be hired or promoted, and five (5) additional points or five percent (5%), whichever is greater, to veterans with a service connected disability.
(b) To make any reasonable accommodation that will allow persons with disabilities to work effectively and maximize their productivity and promotion opportunities, with the exception of that employer who can prove to the Person with Disabilities Investigating Official, that such reasonable accommodation shall represent an onerous effort in financial terms for the enterprise.
(c) To state on their job application forms that the applicant is not under the obligation to inform that he/she is a person with a disability, but that he/she has the right to do to be considered for the benefits conferred by this chapter.
History —July 27, 1996, No. 81, § 3; Sept. 15, 1998, No. 269, § 1.
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The Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the subdivisions or agencies of said branches, as well as the instrumentalities, public or quasi-public corporations, and municipal governments shall put into effect those regulations, or amend the existing ones in order to comply with the provisions of this chapter.
History —July 27, 1996, No. 81, § 4.
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Any natural or juridical person who intentionally violates, or otherwise denies or obstructs the enjoyment of any of the rights granted by this chapter in benefit of qualified persons with disabilities, shall incur a misdemeanor and upon conviction, shall be punished with a fine that shall not be less than two hundred dollars ($200) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500); and subsequent violations shall be punished with a penalty that shall not exceed six (6) months of imprisonment. The judgment of the court shall also provide that the qualified person with a disability shall be granted, without further delay, the right that was thus denied to him/her.
History —July 27, 1996, No. 81, § 5.
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(a) Sugar factory.— Any natural or [juridical] person, public corporation, government agency or cooperative society who operates one or more sugar mills as owner, lessee or otherwise.
(b) Sugarcane grower.— For the purpose of this chapter, any natural or [juridical] person or public corporation, including proportional-profit farms of the Land Authority of Puerto Rico, which send sugarcane to one or more sugar factories to be ground and processed into sugar.
(c) Secretary.— The Secretary of Agriculture of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
(d) Guaranteed income.— The amounts mentioned in subsection (a) of § 2002 of this title for the fiscal years and dates expressed herein.
(e) Income supplements.— The difference between the guaranteed income and any lesser minimum wage per hour prevailing by virtue of the legislation, mandatory decrees, collective agreements or work contracts in force, the last two as of May 31, 1972, whichever is the highest for the work performed during regular hours. The income supplements shall not be affected by any raise in wages bargained on and from June 1, 1972.
History —June 29, 1969, No. 141, p. 462, § 1; June 7, 1972, No. 5, p. 347, § 2; July 24, 1974, No. 245, Part 2, p. 236, § 1, retroactive to July 1, 1974.
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(a) Subject to the restrictions imposed by § 2003(c) of this title, there is hereby established for the workers of the sugar industry in its agricultural phase a guaranteed income of not less than eighty cents ($0.80) per hour during fiscal year 1969—70; of not less than ninety cents ($0.90) per hour during fiscal year 1970—71; and of not less than one dollar per hour from July 1 until May 31, of fiscal year 1971—72. On and from June 1, 1972, and during fiscal years 1972—73 and 1973—74, the guaranteed income shall be the sum of one dollar thirty-five cents ($1.35) per hour of work performed in the agricultural phase of said sugar industry by chauffeurs, tractor and other farm-machinery operators and by arts and craft workers, and the amount of one dollar and ten cents ($1.10) per hour of work performed by other workers in the agricultural phase of said industry. On and from fiscal year 1974—75 and subsequent fiscal years, the guaranteed income shall be the amount of one dollar and forty-seven cents ($1.47) per hour of work performed by chauffeurs, tractor and other farm-machinery operators and by arts and craft workers; and of one dollar and thirty-five cents ($1.35) per hour of work performed by other workers in the agricultural phase of said industry.
(b) The guaranteed income established by virtue of this chapter shall not alter any type of existing minimum wage or that might be agreed or decreed after the date of effectiveness of this act for the various classifications of work in the agricultural phase of the sugar industry. However, any raise in wage obtained through a collective agreement or work contract as of June 1, 1972, shall be received by the worker over the guaranteed income, without affecting therefor the income supplements to which the worker was entitled as of the date in which the raise in wage was obtained. The payment of the income supplements shall not be made for work performed during extra hours of work, as defined in §§ 271—288 of this title, nor when the wages per hour corresponding to the worker by virtue of the legislation, mandatory decrees, collective agreements or work contracts in force as of June 1, 1972, for the work performed during regular hours, equals or exceeds the income guaranteed by this chapter.
(c) The hours which entail extra pay in accordance with the legislation, mandatory decrees, collective agreements or work contracts in force, shall be paid at the corresponding extra rate, taking as a basis the existing minimum wage by virtue of the said legislation, decrees, agreements or contracts, whichever is greatest, but without taking into consideration, for any purpose, the income supplement guaranteed by this chapter.
(d) In interpreting this chapter, in regard to claims, it must be taken into account that it has not been the legislative intention of raising the wages per hour, but of guaranteeing that no worker in the agricultural phase of the sugar industry, qualifying as such under the provisions of this chapter, will have an hourly income lower than that therein established. As a consequence, it shall not be construed that the income supplement guaranteed by this chapter shall be a part of the prevailing wages, and any extra pay or penalty to which a worker is entitled under the laws, mandatory decrees, collective agreements or work contracts in force, shall be computed without including or taking into consideration, for any purpose, said income supplement.
History —June 29, 1969, No. 141, p. 462, § 2; June 7, 1972, No. 5, p. 347, § 3; July 24, 1974, No. 245, Part 2, p. 236, § 2, retroactive to July 1, 1974.
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(a) The sugarcane farmers shall pay from their own private resources the wages in force by virtue of federal decrees, by decrees of the Minimum Wage Board of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or those fixed, directly or indirectly, through contractual obligations, whichever is the highest, and shall likewise advance, the payments of the income supplement. The Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, through the Department of Agriculture, shall compensate the approximate additional expense incurred by the sugarcane growers by virtue of the said advance.
(b) Before the difficulty of determining the exact additional amount of the incomes guaranteed to the workers imposed by this act to each one of the thousands of sugarcane growers existing in Puerto Rico, the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby empowered to classify the sugarcane growers of Puerto Rico in different groups, taking into consideration the different needs of manpower required for the production of each ton of sugarcane, on the basis of the grade of mechanism reached by each grower, the average wages paid in Puerto Rico in each work classification for green and burned sugarcane, as the case may be, the extra wages due to the increase in the price of the sugar and any other factor which, in the judgment of the Secretary, should be taken into consideration. For each one of these groups the Secretary shall fix a rate of reimbursement per ton of sugarcane. Said rates may be changed for each sugar crop. The regulations containing these rates, as well as the standards and procedures to be followed in this program, shall be filed annually by the Secretary in the office of the Secretary of State of Puerto Rico not later than June 30 of each fiscal year.
(c) The Secretary shall establish by regulation effective July 1, 1969, the appropriate criteria which shall govern the determination of which workers shall be eligible to receive the benefits of this chapter. Within said criteria, the Secretary may consider the number of hours to be worked weekly by the workers during the harvesting of the sugarcane and during the off-season, the number of workers employed by each employer, and any other matter which may be favorable in obtaining the purposes of this chapter, giving special consideration to the fundamental objective that the reimbursements made correspond as far as possible, to the payments made to the workers.
(d) For the computation of the data on which shall be based the reimbursements that the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico pledges to make in order to compensate the sugarcane growers for the approximate additional expense, the sugar factories of the Island shall furnish to the Secretary or the subaltern officer in whom he may designate, when each grower completes the delivery of his sugarcane and not later than thirty (30) working days after finishing the said grinding, a report on the tons ground by each sugarcane grower, as well as information in regard to the cutting and harvesting method of each one, if by machine or by hand, and if the cane was cut green or after it had been burned, and in case of mixed deliveries, in what proportion the sugarcane was delivered which had been harvested either mechanically or by hand, as well as the proportion of the green and burned sugarcane.
(e) The reimbursement payments to sugarcane growers shall be made not later than sixty (60) days after the Secretary, or the subaltern officer whom he may designate, has received from each sugar factory the report referred to in previous subsection (d).
History —June 29, 1969, No. 141, p. 462, § 3; June 7, 1972, No. 5, p. 347, § 4; July 24, 1974, No. 245, Part 2, p. 236, § 3, retroactive to July 1, 1974.
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In regard to claims and rights which the laborers or workmen may have under this chapter, there shall apply the provisions in the labor legislation in force or that might be approved in the future, including everything in relation to the use of special procedures, faculty to practice investigations and prescriptive terms. In the investigations with regard to the compliance of the provisions of this chapter or to the claims filed by workers under this chapter, the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources is hereby empowered, in accordance with the labor legislation in force, to order the production of books, documents, payrolls or any other materials necessary to the investigation carried out. The Secretary of Labor and Human Resources shall also have the same powers conferred on him in § 2007 of this title, in order to see to the faithful compliance of this chapter.
History —June 29, 1969, No. 141, p. 462, § 4; June 7, 1972, No. 5, p. 347, § 5.
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Every natural or artificial person who violates the provisions of this chapter in connection with the payment of the income supplement herein guaranteed shall be subject to the total payment of the indebted sums, and further, to the payment of an additional sum equal to the unpaid amount.
History —June 29, 1969, No. 141, p. 462, § 5, eff. July 1, 1969.
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The Secretary is hereby empowered to adopt the necessary rules and regulations for the implementation of the provisions of this chapter. The regulations so adopted shall have force of law once the provisions of Act June 30, 1957, No. 112 have been complied with. The first regulation promulgated by the Secretary as provided in § 2003(c) of this title, being of an urgent character, shall not have to comply with the provisions of Act June 30, 1957, No. 112, and shall have force of law from and after July 1, 1969.
History —June 29, 1969, No. 141, p. 462, § 6, eff. July 1, 1969.
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In compliance with the duties imposed by this chapter, the Secretary or the subaltern officer designated by him, may issue summons requiring the appearance of witnesses and the presentation of data or information that the Secretary or the subaltern officer designated by him, may consider necessary, including payrolls, salaries and hours of work records and accounting books.
If a summons issued by the Secretary or by the subaltern officer designated by him, were not duly complied with, the Secretary or the subaltern officer designated by him, may appear before any Part of the Court of First Instance of Puerto Rico and request that the court shall order the compliance with the summons. The Court of First Instance shall give preference to the expedition and dispatch of said petitions and shall have the authority to issue orders making compulsory the appearance of witnesses or the presentation of any data or information that the Secretary, or the subaltern officer designated by him, has previously required. The court shall be empowered to punish for contempt disobedience to its orders.
No person may refuse to comply with a summons of the Secretary or of the subaltern officer designated by him, or of a judicial order so issued alleging that the testimony, data or information required might incriminate him or render him liable to a penalty, but said person may not be criminally prosecuted in connection with any transaction, matter or thing, in regard to which he has given testimonial or produced data or information.
History —June 29, 1969, No. 141, p. 462, § 7, eff. July 1, 1969.
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Any person impaired by an order or decision of the Secretary may request the reconsideration of said order or decision before the Secretary, within fifteen (15) days from and after the date of the sending by mail or by personal delivery of the notice of the decision or order. The Secretary shall establish, through regulations, the procedure to be followed for the holding of the reconsideration hearings, granting to the interested party the right to be represented by an attorney, to present and to cross-examine witnesses, and to produce evidence. Said reconsideration hearing may be presided by the Secretary or by the officer or officers in whom he may delegate.
Any person affected by the decision of the Secretary in the reconsideration hearing, or to whom it has been denied, may request the review of said decision before the Court of First Instance, which may, at its discretion, grant or deny same. The review petition shall be filed in the court within the fifteen (15) days reckoning from the date of the sending by mail or by personal delivery of the notice of the decision. Once the corresponding appeal for review has been filed, the court shall order the Secretary to submit a certified copy of the records of the proceedings in the reconsideration hearing.
While the appeal for review established by this section is being transacted, the effect of the order or decision shall not be stayed, except in those cases where it is shown to the satisfaction of the court that the execution of the order or decision shall cause irreparable damages to the affected party.
History —June 29, 1969, No. 141, p. 462, § 8, eff. July 1, 1969.
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(a) For the reimbursement payments which the Department of Agriculture shall make to the sugarcane growers of Puerto Rico, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, there is hereby appropriated to the Department of Agriculture from unencumbered funds in the Commonwealth Treasury the following sums for each one of the three (3) corresponding fiscal years:
(1) For fiscal year 1970-71, five million dollars ($5,000,000) to compensate the advances corresponding to the 1969-70 harvest.
(2) For fiscal year 1971-72, six million dollars ($6,000,000) to compensate the advances corresponding to the 1970-71 harvest.
(3) For fiscal year 1972-73, six million dollars ($6,000,000) to compensate the advances corresponding to the 1971-72 harvest.
(4) The necessary amounts to compensate the advances, if any, corresponding to the subsequent fiscal years, shall be consigned in the Budget proposed annually by the Governor to the Legislature.
(b) The sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) is hereby appropriated for the fiscal year 1969-70, to organize the necessary administrative mechanism for the compliance of the provisions of this chapter.
(c) The Secretary is hereby authorized to use up to three hundred fifty thousand dollars ($350,000) from the appropriations provided for each fiscal year to cover the administrative expenses incurred in the execution of the provisions of this chapter. The personnel appointed for such purposes by the Secretary shall be included in the noncompetitive service.
(d) Any surplus of the appropriations provided for any year may be used for the purposes of another similar nature approved during the same legislative session entitled: “An Act to guarantee to the agricultural workers who are eligible in accordance with the regulation promulgated by the Secretary of Agriculture, an income of not less than eighty cents ($0.80) per hour during fiscal year 1969-70; not less than ninety cents ($0.90) during fiscal year 1970-71; and not less than one dollar ($1.00) per hour during fiscal year 1971-72, and subsequent years; to appropriate to the Department of Agriculture the necessary sums for the carrying out of a reimbursement program to the farmers of Puerto Rico which may permit them to face the additional expenses entailed by the guaranteed income; to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to classify the farmers into various groups and to promulgate regulations fixing the standards and the costs of the rates of reimbursement for each group and to establish the punishments and penalties for violations of this act.”
History —June 29, 1969, No. 141, p. 462, § 9; June 7, 1972, No. 5, p. 374, § 6; May 10, 1973, No. 24, p. 82.
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There is hereby established a wage subsidy in substitution of the reimbursement of supplementary payments provided herein, which shall be paid by the Secretary of Agriculture from the appropriations set aside for the fulfillment of this chapter to those sugarcane growers who would have the right to receive reimbursement of supplementary payments in agricultural wages under this chapter, but who may lose the right to receive them, if the workers’ minimum wage applicable to the agricultural phase of the sugar industry under the federal law known as the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended, equals or surpasses the income levels guaranteed under this chapter. Said subsidy shall be computed pursuant to the norms and formulas established herein, taking as a basis the difference between the income guaranteed by this chapter and the lower commonwealth minimum wage prevailing, or the lower minimum federal wage prevailing before May 1, 1974, whichever is the highest.
History —June 29, 1969, No. 141, p. 462, added as § 9-A on July 24, 1974, No. 245, Part 2, p. 236, § 4, retroactive to July 1, 1974.
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For the purpose of eliminating the problem emerged in the application of subsections A and B of Section V of the “Regulation to Prescribe Reimbursement of Payment Supplements to Sugarcane Growers who Employ Workers in the Agricultural Phase of the Sugar Industry”, approved April 30, 1974, this Section V is rendered ineffective, and in its place the text of Section V of said Regulation as approved on September 11, 1973 is reinstated, having immediate force and effect of law.
History —June 29, 1969, No. 141, p. 462, added as § 9-B on July 24, 1974, No. 245, Part 2, p. 236, § 5, retroactive to July 1, 1974.
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(a) Agricultural worker.— Any person who labors for pay in work that leads to agricultural or livestock production, the maintenance of a farm, or its direct dependencies for the storing, transportation, distribution and marketing of farm produce.
(b) Secretary.— The Secretary of Agriculture of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
(c) Eligible farmer.— Any natural or juridical person who legally owns a farm and is engaged in general agriculture, including all of its branches, such as cattle raising, aviculture, bee raising, minor crops, horticulture and others; and who pays agricultural workers at least the wages guaranteed by this chapter.
(d) Regional office.— Each one of the Agricultural Regional Offices established by the Department of Agriculture.
(e) Wage subsidy.— The amount to be reimbursed to eligible farmers, including the corresponding additional charges for interest, workers insurance, unemployment insurance and employers’ social security share, as provided by regulations.
History —Aug. 5, 1989, No. 46, p. 157, § 2, retroactive to July 1, 1989.
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(a) Subject to the restrictions imposed by § 2033(b) of this title, a guaranteed wage is hereby established, through a subsidy, for all eligible agricultural workers, of at least four dollars and forty-five cents ($4.45) as of January 1st, 2009, Fiscal Year 2008-2009, of four dollars and eighty cents ($4.80) as of July 1st, 2009, Fiscal Year 2009-2010, and of five dollars and twenty-five cents ($5.25) as of July 1, 2010, Fiscal Year 2010-2011.
(b) The guaranteed subsidized wage established herein shall not alter any existing wage, or any wage to be agreed upon in the future for the various work classifications in the agricultural industry. Any wage increase achieved by agricultural workers through a collective bargaining agreement or work contract as of July 1st, 1989, shall be received by the worker over and above the guaranteed wage level, through the subsidy established herein, without affecting the farmer’s right to reimbursement for the wage subsidy.
The payment of wage subsidies shall not apply for overtime work as it is defined in §§ 271 et seq. of this title.
History —Aug. 5, 1989, No. 46, p. 157, § 3; Dec. 8, 1989, No. 24, p. 591; Dec. 1, 1995, No. 224, § 1; Aug. 7, 2008, No. 185, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2009.
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(a) The farmers shall pay the guaranteed wages subsidized under this chapter from their own pocket, or those fixed directly by contractual obligations, legislation, or decrees, whichever are highest. The Government of Puerto Rico, through the Agricultural Development Administration attached to the Department of Agriculture, shall establish, through regulations, the wage subsidy to be reimbursed to the farmers who meet the provisions of this chapter.
(b) The Secretary shall fix, by regulations, as of the first of July of 1989, the criteria to govern the determination of those farmers who shall be eligible to receive the benefits of this chapter. Among those criteria, the Secretary shall consider the number of hours that the workers must work a week with regard to cultivation or seasonal and non-seasonal agricultural activities, the wage subsidies to be paid, taking into consideration the different manpower needs to produce each kind of crop based on the degree of mechanization achieved by each enterprise and group of entrepreneurs, the wages paid in Puerto Rico for each kind of agricultural activity, and any other factor that should be taken into consideration in the judgment of the Secretary. The Secretary shall fix the wage subsidy rate, based on the production unit or area of land planted, or any other basis determined by regulations, taking into consideration the nature of the agricultural enterprise involved, and its marketing systems, but shall not be less than the sum of two dollars and thirty-two cents ($2.32) as of January 1, 2009, Fiscal Year 2008-2009; two dollars and fifty-two cents ($2.52) as of July 1, 2009, Fiscal Year 2009-2010; and two dollars and seventy-two cents ($2.72) as of July 1, 2010, Fiscal Year 2010-2011, per every hour certified as worked.
(c) The farmers shall be bound to submit to the Secretary or the official on whom he delegates, within the term fixed by regulation, those reports that are requested from them to compute the data on which to base the wage subsidies that the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is committed to pay to reimburse the additional expenses they must incur to comply with the provisions of this chapter.
(d) The wage subsidy payments shall be paid to the farmers no later than sixty (60) days after the Secretary receives the reports referred to in subsection (c) of this section.
History —Aug. 5, 1989, No. 46, p. 157, § 4, retroactive to July 1, 1989; Aug. 7, 2008, No. 185, § 2, eff. Jan. 1, 2009.
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Any natural or juridical person who violates the provisions of this chapter or its regulations concerning the payment of the guaranteed subsidized wage shall reimburse the amount of money received in excess of the amount that corresponded to him through regulations.
History —Aug. 5, 1989, No. 46, p. 157, § 5, retroactive to July 1, 1989.
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The Secretary is hereby empowered to adopt such rules and regulations as are needed to implement the provisions of this chapter. The rules and regulations thus adopted shall have force of law as soon as the provisions of §§ 2101 et seq. of Title 3, known as the Uniform Administrative Procedure Act for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, are complied with.
History —Aug. 5, 1989, No. 46, p. 157, § 6, retroactive to July 1, 1989.
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In complying with the duties imposed by this chapter on the Secretary or the official on whom he delegates, he may issue summons compelling the appearance of witnesses and the production of data or information deemed necessary, including payrolls, evidence of wages paid, hours worked, and accounting books. If a summons issued by the Secretary or by the official designated by him is not duly complied with, the Secretary or said official may appear before any part of the Court of First Instance of Puerto Rico, and ask the court to order that said summons be obeyed. The Court of First Instance shall give preference to the course and determination of said petition and shall have the authority to issue orders to compel the appearance of witnesses or the production of any data or information that the Secretary or any official designated by him has requested previously. The Court of First Instance shall have the faculty to punish any disobedience of its orders, for contempt of court. No person may refuse to comply with a summons of the Secretary or the official on whom he delegates, to an order thus issued, alleging that the testimony, data or information requested from him could incriminate him or give rise to the imposition of a penalty, but cannot be charged criminally with respect to any transaction, matter or thing with regard to which he may have given testimony or produced data or information.
History —Aug. 5, 1989, No. 46, p. 157, § 7, retroactive to July 1, 1989.
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Any natural or juridical person, who is injured by a partial or final resolution or order of the Secretary or the official on whom he delegates, may request the reconsideration of said resolution or order before the corresponding official, within the term of thirty (30) days counting from the serving of the resolution or order. The Secretary shall establish, by regulations, the procedure to be followed in conducting the reconsideration hearings, granting the interested party the right to be represented by counsel, to present and cross-examine witnesses and to introduce evidence. Said reconsideration hearing may be presided over by the Secretary or the official or officials upon whom he delegates.
History —Aug. 5, 1989, No. 46, p. 157, § 8, retroactive to July 1, 1989.
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Any natural or juridical person who is affected adversely by the decision of the Secretary or the official on whom he delegates may request the revision of said decision before the Court of First Instance within the term of thirty (30) days counting from the date the copy of the service of the agency’s final resolution or order is filed in the case. While the appeal for review established by this section is being handled, the effects of the order or decision shall not be stayed, except in those cases in which it is shown to the satisfaction of the court that the execution of the order or decision will cause the affected party irreparable harm.
History —Aug. 5, 1989, No. 46, p. 157, § 9, retroactive to July 1, 1989.
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Any eligible farmer who violates the provision of this chapter or the regulations promulgated hereunder shall incur a misdemeanor punishable with a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500).
History —Aug. 5, 1989, No. 46, p. 157, § 10, retroactive to July 1, 1989.
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(a) The Department of Agriculture shall make the wage subsidy payments through the Agricultural Development Administration, attached thereto. The amounts needed to pay the wage subsidy shall be consigned in the General Budget of Expenses of the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
(b) The Secretary is authorized to use up to seven percent (7%) of the appropriation provided for each fiscal year to cover the administrative expenses caused by the execution of the provisions of this chapter.
History —Aug. 5, 1989, No. 46, p. 157, § 11, retroactive to July 1, 1989.
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(a) Sugar factory.— Shall mean any natural or [juridical] person, public corporation, government agency or cooperative association that operates one or more sugar mills as owner, lessee, or otherwise.
(b) Sugarcane grower.— Shall mean, for the purposes of this chapter, private farmers, excluding the Sugar Corporation, proportional-profit farms of the Land Authority, seed farms of the Agricultural Services Administration, as well as any other government instrumentalities engaged in the production of cane for sugar processing.
(c) Secretary.— Shall mean the Secretary of Agriculture of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
(d) Raw sugar average price.— Shall mean the price as established by daily quotations of ninety-six percent (96%) raw sugar of the “New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange” (domestic contract).
(e) Subsidy.— Shall mean the economic aid that shall be paid to growers to help them pay in part the minimum wages established under Act No. 96 of June 26, 1956, when the raw sugar annual average price used by the sugar factory to liquidate the sugar to the sugarcane growers is [eighteen dollars] ($18) or less a hundredweight. The amount of said subsidy shall be determined by the Secretary of Agriculture, as set forth in § 2064 of this title.
(f) Puerto Rico Minimum Wage Act.— Shall mean Act No. 96 of June 26, 1956, as amended, §§ 245—246m of this title.
History —May 30, 1976, No. 92, p. 271, § 1.
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This chapter establishes a wage subsidy, commencing with the 1976 crop, which shall be paid by the Secretary only to private sugarcane growers as defined in § 2061(b) hereof when the annual average price they receive for the sale of raw sugar is [eighteen dollars] ($18) or less a hundredweight.
History —May 30, 1976, No. 92, p. 271, § 2.
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In computing the amount of wage subsidy to be paid annually to private sugarcane growers, the federal minimum wages prevailing on May 1, 1974 shall be taken as a basis. Provided, That the wage subsidy shall take effect when the raw sugar annual average price in the domestic market is [eighteen dollars] ($18.00) or less a hundredweight. The subsidy shall increase gradually and as provided by the Secretary through regulation, as the price of sugar diminishes, reaching its maximum limit when the price of raw sugar is [fifteen dollars and fifty cents] ($15.50) or less a hundredweight. No subsidy shall be paid when the raw sugar average price is higher than [eighteen dollars] ($18.00) a hundredweight. Besides, the payment of this aid by way of wage subsidy shall include in part the additional expenses incurred by the sugarcane grower in social security, workmen’s insurance and unemployment insurance.
History —May 30, 1976, No. 92, p. 271, § 3.
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The raw sugar average price which shall be used to determine the daily basic wages, for the purpose of computing the amount of the subsidy, shall be the monthly average comprised between January 1 and December 31 of each year.
History —May 30, 1976, No. 92, p. 271, § 4.
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The Secretary is hereby empowered to classify the sugarcane growers of Puerto Rico in different groups, taking into consideration the different kinds of manpower required for the production of each ton of sugarcane, on the basis of the grade of mechanization reached by each grower. For each of these groups the Secretary shall fix a rate of payment for each ton of sugarcane. Said rates of payment shall vary for each sugar crop, depending on the annual average price of a hundredweight of raw sugar and taking into account the manpower used in the production of each ton of sugarcane, as well as the resources available for this aid.
(a) The Secretary shall fix by regulation, beginning with the 1976 crop, the standards and procedures to be followed for the payment of the subsidy provided herein. Said regulations shall be filed annually in the office of the Secretary of State of Puerto Rico not later than October 30 of each year.
(b) For computing the data which shall serve as basis for the payment of the subsidy that the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico binds itself to make to sugarcane growers, the sugar factories of the Commonwealth shall furnish to the Secretary or to the subordinate officer to whom he may delegate, at the end of the sugar crop, but not later than August 30 of each year, a report on the tons of sugarcane ground by each grower, as well as on the cutting and harvesting method used.
(c) Payment of this subsidy shall be made not later than December 31 of each year, save when the Secretary deems it necessary to extend said date.
History —May 30, 1976, No. 92, p. 271, § 5.
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(a) For the payment of this subsidy which the Department of Agriculture shall make to the sugarcane growers, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, there is hereby appropriated to the Department of Agriculture, from unencumbered funds in the Commonwealth Treasury, the amount of two million five hundred thousand dollars ($2,500,000) for the fiscal year 1976—77. The appropriations for the subsequent fiscal years shall be included in the corresponding budget that the Governor of Puerto Rico recommends annually to the Legislature.
(b) The Secretary is hereby authorized to use up to three and a half percent (3.5%) of the funds appropriated to cover the administrative expenses incurred in the execution of the provisions of this chapter.
History —May 30, 1976, No. 92, p. 271, § 6.
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The Secretary is hereby authorized to cover any deficit in the appropriations provided to comply with the provisions of this chapter with funds appropriated to enforce Act June 29, 1969, No. 142 and §§ 510—510k of this title. Likewise, there is hereby authorized the transfer of funds between this chapter and Act June 29, 1969, No. 142 and §§ 510—510k of this title, and vice versa, including any deficit arising as a result of administrative expenses.
History —May 30, 1976, No. 92, p. 271, § 7.
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The following words and terms shall have the meaning indicated below when used or referred to in this chapter except when the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(a) Administration.— Shall mean the Commercial Development Administration.
(b) Fringe benefits.— Shall mean all pensions, insurance, medical insurance, social security, liquidation payment for termination, leaves and Christmas bonus, and any other benefit received by the employees, or that future employees of such enterprise will receive by initiative thereof or by law, without impairing the “employment vouchers”.
(c) Urban center.— Shall mean a geographic area in the heart or center of a town or city which has been defined as such by the municipality in a plot plan or designated as an historic zone, or is delimited by the City Planning Directs Office with the advice of the Planning Board and in close coordination with the mayor of the municipality subject to be renewed.
(d) Certificate of direct employment.— Shall mean the document that indicates that the participant is qualified to receive the wage incentive. This certificate shall be issued by the Administration. Certificates shall bear the specific name of the employee, although it shall be the business that shall process the issue. The certificates shall be nontransferable and shall be valid only for the person whose narre that appears on it.
(e) Department.— Shall mean the Department of Labor and Human Resources.
(f) Enterprises.— Shall mean the profitable or nonprofit private entities identified with manufacturing, commerce, services, tourism, construction, agriculture, agro-industry, recycling, or technology that are interested or that receive the wage incentives established in this chapter.
(g) Self-employment enterprise.— Shall mean a firm in which the owner is also the sole employee.
(h) Small business.— Shall mean a small business with annual gross sales that do not exceed five million dollars ($5,000,000), and twenty five (25) employees or less. As a general rule in a small business the owner supplies the capital and is usually part of its management, and its operations are located in Puerto Rico.
History —June 17, 1996, No. 54, § 2; Aug. 19, 1997, No. 90, § 1; renumbered as § 3 by § 2 and amended by § 4 on Aug. 20, 2003, No. 202.
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A wage incentive is hereby established of fifty percent (50%) of the hourly wage, up to two dollars and seventy five cents ($2.75) per hour, for a minimum of thirty two (32) hours a week, up to a maximum of forty (40) hours a week, excluding fringe benefits. This incentive shall be granted to qualified businesses according to the parameters of this chapter and the regulations approved to such effect, for a maximum term of one (1) year for each participant. The owner of a self employment business established in the urban center, as it is defined in this chapter, may request the benefit as his/her own salary.
The businesses may enjoy this benefit for one (1) year per participant, up to a maximum of fifteen (15) direct employment certificates per year. Those businesses whose operations are located in urban municipal centers, as defined in § 2101 of this title, may avail themselves of up to twenty-five (25) direct employment certificates per year.
This benefit may be extended for an additional year to those businesses that meet a minimum of seventy five percent (75%) retention of employees. Each business shall be a beneficiary of the program of up to a maximum of two (2) years.
For the purposes of calculating the maximum number of years that a business may benefit from the Program, it must receive the benefits for two (2) consecutive years, unless it is shown that the enterprise that is interested in participating in the Program is other than the business that requested the extension the previous year, in which case, the two (2) years term shall begin anew.
History —June 17, 1996, No. 54, § 3; Aug. 19, 1997, No. 90, § 2; renumbered as § 4 by § 2 and amended by § 5 on Aug. 20, 2003, No. 202.
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The Administration shall be the agency responsible for executing the purposes of this chapter. To do so, it shall have, among others, the following powers and responsibilities:
(a) Promote the participation of for profit or nonprofit enterprises in the creation of jobs in all sectors covered by this chapter.
(b) Select the enterprises that are eligible to receive the incentive established by means of this chapter, in those cases where it applies.
(c) Advise the eligible enterprises on the availability of the incentives to be granted prior to their requesting them.
(d) Refer eligible participants to applicant enterprises in coordination with the Department.
(e) In those cases where it is deemed necessary, offer an orientation to the participants on how to adapt to the new job.
(f) Coordinate the reimbursement of wage incentives to the participating enterprises.
(g) To coordinate or contract, as the case may be, the participation or cooperation of other private or public entities, specifically including the municipalities, that are needed to fulfill the purposes of this chapter, and which may offer administrative or fiscal support to the Urban Center Direct Employment Program, provided the requirements set forth by state or federal lawes that regulate said programs are complied with. For purposes of this subsection, the government agencies or instrumentalities that shall work in coordination with the Administration shall be, among others, the Department, and the Departments of Education, Economic Development and Commerce, Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Family, and their operational component.
(h) Coordinate with the Department the procedures to notify potentially eligible persons.
(i) Establish the procedures for the design, preparation and delivery of the direct employment certificates, which shall have a legal effect of twelve (12) months.
(j) Ensure that all procedures are carried out pursuant to federal or state laws, regulations, procedures and applicable guides.
(k) To refer potential participants and their employees to training programs in vocational, technical courses or for the acquisition of degrees, or especially by using the resource of the Management School offered by the Administration.
(l) Cancel the incentive and benefits granted to those enterprises and participants that do not meet the requirements established in this chapter and the regulations promulgated.
History —June 17, 1996, No. 54, § 4; Aug. 19, 1997, No. 90, § 3; renumbered as § 5 by § 2 and amended by § 6 on Aug. 20, 2003, No. 202.
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Any enterprise that is interested in enjoying the incentives established in this chapter must meet the following requirements:
(a) It shall belong to or be identified with the manufacturing, commerce, services, tourist, construction, agriculture, agro-industrial or recycling sectors.
(b) Be a small business or self employment agency as defined herein, with municipal license, in either case.
(c) It shall not receive any other wage benefit of any kind from the state or federal government per participants in the program. If the enterprise receives any other wage benefit in this regard, and ends it prior to the date agreed upon, it shall not receive the incentive established by this chapter.
(d) It shall recruit participants in accordance with this chapter, pursuant to the procedures and guidelines established by the Administration.
(e) Owe no taxes to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the municipalities, nor the federal government. The enterprise shall submit evidence of having filed its income tax returns for the five (5) tax years prior to the year the contract is executed and owes no taxes to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Provided, That a tax debt shall mean debt on account of any income taxes, excise tax, real or movable property taxes, including any tax of a special nature, license fees, taxes withheld at source in payment of salaries and professional services, payment of interest, dividends, revenues, to individuals, on non residents corporations, and partnerships, and on the payment of interest, dividends and other distributions of earnings to resident individuals, unemployment insurance, temporary disability and chauffeurs social security (whichever is applicable) owed by the contractor to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Businesses less than five (5) years in existence, shall submit all income tax returns they have filed at the time they request the benefit, and certify that they have no outstanding tax debts with the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, nor with the municipalities, as previously defined herein. Due to their nature, new businesses that wish to request the benefit shall not have to meet the requirement of presenting business tax returns, however, they do need to present the negative personal debt certification of the owner, or a duly approved payment plan from the Department of the Treasury and a sworn statement that is explained below. Any of these businesses that cannot submit their tax evidence for the last five (5) years, whether for the abovementioned reasons or any of the reasons established in the Internal Revenue Code, as amended, shall submit a sworn statement stating the reasons for which they are not bound to file income tax returns. Said sworn statement shall be subject to the penalty of perjury, as it is typified in the Penal Code, as amended. The statement shall be made a part of the contract. In those cases that it applies, evidence of their compliance with a payment plan duly authorized by the Secretary of the Department of the Treasury de Puerto Rico, shall be submitted.
(f) It shall offer the participants the same rights and benefits received by the other employees of the enterprise and shall evaluate then using the same criteria used for other employees in the same position.
(g) It shall comply with the federal and state labor and taxing laws, norms and regulations, and any others applicable to the enterprise in question.
(h) Once the enterprise obtains the direct employment certificate and begins to receive its benefits, it shall report the participants that have left their employment to the Administration explaining in detail the reasons therefor. In those cases that there is a finding of unjustified dismissal, the enterprise shall reimburse the wage incentive of which it was a beneficiary. If the direct employment certificate is still in effect when the participant terminates his/her employment in the business, said certificate must be returned to the Administration within fifteen (15) days following the termination of employment. If the direct employment certificate is not in effect, the enterprise shall return it to the Administration within fifteen (15) days following its date of expiration and the participant may obtain another, through the procedures set forth by this chapter.
Furthermore, in order to ensure an adequate adjustment and adaptation of the participants, the enterprise shall offer the participant the opportunity of on the job training any other form that the Administrator may determine through regulations. The same may be carried out in said enterprise or in coordination with other government agencies or entities.
(i) No worker shall be discriminated against in obtaining employment, for having or not having a certificate. Both state and federal laws and regulations shall apply.
(j) It shall commit itself to retain the employee permanently once the wage incentive granted by this chapter ends.
(k) Submit a three (3) year business plan along with the request. Orientation on how to prepare a business plan may be obtained from the Administration.
(l) Any other document requested by regulation.
History —June 17, 1996, No. 54, § 5; Aug. 19, 1997, No. 90, § 4; renumbered as § 6 by § 2 and amended by § 7 on Aug. 20, 2003, No. 202.
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The Administration shall establish whatever procedures it deems necessary and convenient for the orientation, selection and referral of the participants. Business enterprises interested in obtaining direct employment certificates must go to the Administration, which shall issue direct employment certificate or certificates after determining that the enterprise qualifies, with the specific name of the employee or employees, as the case may be.
History —June 17, 1996, No. 54, § 6; Aug. 19, 1997, No. 90, § 5; renumbered as § 7 by § 2 and amended by § 8 on Aug. 20, 2003, No. 202.
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The amount of incentives to be granted shall depend upon the resources available for these purposes, to be determined by the Administration.
The Administration shall render a quarterly report to the Office of Budget and Management on the income and expenses of the program. Said report shall also include, the number of employers billing, persons employed, and payments made.
History —June 17, 1996, No. 54, § 7; Aug. 19, 1997, No. 90, § 6; renumbered as § 8 by § 2 and amended by § 9 on Aug. 20, 2003, No. 202.
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The reimbursement of the wage incentive established in § 2102 of this title, shall be made monthly. To do so, the Administration shall establish the processes needed for this action to be performed as soon as possible, taking the following into consideration:
(a) The business shall render a monthly report to the Administration on the wages paid to the participating employees, with information regarding the hours worked and the reimbursement amount requested. Along with the first report, it shall include a copy of the direct employment certificate. The business shall retain the direct employment certificate while the participant is on the payroll. Once the participant ceases to work, the provisions of § 2104(h) of this title shall apply.
(b) The Administration may take the necessary measures to verify that the enterprise met the requirements established in this chapter and that the amount claimed corresponds to the employees recruited and to the hours worked. This shall include, without it being understood as a limitation, performing audits at any time, at the Administration’s discretion, requesting financial statements, and access to the payrolls for the six (6) months prior to the verification.
(c) Along with the request for reimbursement, the enterprise shall submit the payroll within the ten (10) days following the month for which the reimbursement is claimed, so that the same may be made within the following thirty (30) working days.
(d) The participating employee shall receive payment of his/her wages from the employer on the same date as the rest of the employees of the enterprise.
For the purposes of this section, a reimbursement claimed by an enterprise on account of wage incentives for persons who were previously hired by the enterprise for the year prior to the granting of this incentive and/or are stockholders, directors or officials thereof, shall be void.
History —June 17, 1996, No. 54, § 8; Aug. 19, 1997, No. 90, § 7; renumbered as § 9 by § 2 and amended by § 10 on Aug. 20, 2003, No. 202.
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The Commercial Development Administrator may impose administrative fines of up to five thousand dollars ($5,000) on the enterprises that receive wage incentives pursuant to this chapter, for each violation of any provision contained therein or in the rules and regulations by virtue thereof. Furthermore, the enterprise shall return to the Administration the wage incentive received up to that date on account of the participants involved in such action.
History —June 17, 1996, No. 54, § 9; Aug. 19, 1997, No. 90, § 8; renumbered as § 10 on Aug. 20, 2003, No. 202, § 2.
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An Employment Guarantee Fund is hereby created on the books of the Department of the Treasury. Administrative fines collected by the Commercial Development Administrator by virtue of this chapter and any appropriations consigned for these purposes, shall be deposited in said Fund.
The collections and appropriations deposited in the Employment Guarantee Fund shall be used to grant the wage incentives established in this chapter and to defray the expenses of the operation and purchase of the material needed for the development of the Program, which shall not exceed five percent (5%) thereof.
History —June 17, 1996, No. 54, § 10, renumbered as § 11 on Aug. 20, 2003, No. 202, § 2.
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The Secretary of the Department of Labor and Human Resources is hereby conferred full authority to regulate, certify and grant licenses to those persons who are engaged in the inspection of construction and industrial cranes. The regulations to be adopted shall include the requirements to perform as an inspector and the reasonable fees to be charged for issuing such licenses.
History —Aug. 4, 1997, No. 55, § 1, eff. 60 days after Aug. 4, 1997.
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No person shall be engaged in the inspection of construction and industrial cranes without first obtaining a license to such effects issued by the Secretary of the Department of Labor and Human Resources.
History —Aug. 4, 1997, No. 55, § 2, eff. 60 days after Aug. 4, 1997.
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The Secretary of the Department of Labor and Human Resources is hereby authorized to impose administrative fines, pursuant to §§ 2101 et seq. of Title 3, known as the “Uniform Administrative Procedures Act of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico”, as amended, on those persons who persist in representing themselves as experts in this field without first having submitted themselves to the certification procedure or obtaining the pertinent license duly issued by the Secretary.
History —Aug. 4, 1997, No. 55, § 3, eff. 60 days after Aug. 4, 1997.
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The Secretary of Labor and Human Resources shall submit the regulations for the approval of the Governor within one hundred and twenty (120) days from the approval of this act.
History —Aug. 4, 1997, No. 55, § 4, eff. 60 days after Aug. 4, 1997.
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In the case of a community of properties or rights in realty, the schedule of the registrars of property shall be applied without taking into account the numbler of conveyors or executors, or the number of acquirers, of the property or right in realty the registration or annotation of which is asked for, in one single deed; Provided, That if the registration or annotation of an undivided part is asked for separately, the fees for the registration or annotation shall then be collected according to the value of the participation or co-ownership.
History —May 10, 1937, No. 85, p. 217, § 1.
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The registrars of property, who, by exercising the right accorded to them by article 377 of the Mortgage Law, shall substitute the bonds by them executed for the discharge of their offices, by other bonds either a cash bond or by a mortgage bond or a bond executed by a company doing business in this Commonwealth, shall have the right, after the new bond has been approved to pray the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to issue the order for the return or cancellation of the substituted bond as the case may be. The same right is hereby granted to notaries in the case of the substitution of their bonds.
History —Mar. 9, 1911, No. 69, p. 224, § 1, eff. 30 days after Mar. 9. 1911.
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The term of three years prescribed by article 384 of the Mortgage Regulation of 1893 for the return of bonds to registrars of property who shall have been permitted to substitute them, is hereby reduced to three months. The same term is hereby fixed for the return of the bonds to notaries substituting their bonds: Provided, That in those cases where the registrar of property or notaries have furnished corporate bonds, said bonds may be terminated by either the party bonded or surety, upon giving sixty days’ notice in writing to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, which notice of termination shall be communicated by the secretary of the court to the party bonded, requesting a new bond. Should no new bond be substituted or furnished within said sixty days, the commission of the registrar or notary shall be canceled. A certificate of termination shall be furnished the surety company on the expiration of the sixty days’ notice, but the bond so terminated shall be considered good and valid, for three years after its termination, for acts committed during the period said bond was in existence.
History —Mar. 9, 1911, No. 69, p. 224, § 2; Mar. 7, 1912, No. 50, p. 94.
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The parties in interest or their heirs, shall petition the part of the Court of First Instance wherein they have rendered their services, for the cancellation of their bonds, and the court will direct the publication of a notice in the official paper of the Commonwealth, if it should exist, and in its default in one of the capital and two of the locality, if so edited, and in a contrary case, in those of the nearest capital of a part of the Court of First Instance, every two weeks during the six months fixed in the previous section [sic] summoning and enjoining those who may have any claim to adduce, to file them within the hereinabove specified period with the part of the Court of First Instance wherein they should have practiced or rendered service, and for this purpose, these courts shall be stated in the notice.
History —Mar. 9, 1911, No. 69, p. 224, § 3, eff. 30 days after Mar. 9, 1911.
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These terms having elapsed and no claims having been filed, the proper certificate shall be sent to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court setting forth the fact that no claim has been entered against the registrar or notary in question, for the liabilities by him contracted in the discharge of his office.
History —Mar. 9, 1911, No. 69, p. 224, § 4, eff. 30 days after Mar. 9, 1911.
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The registrar or notary who has rendered service in different localities when petitioning for the return of his substituted bond, shall demonstrate by a certificate from the judge of the part of the Court of First Instance wherein he has served, that said substituted bond is not subject to any responsibility and that the term of six months after the approval of the new bond has expired.
History —Mar. 9, 1911, No. 69, p. 224, § 5, eff. 30 days after Mar. 9, 1911.
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The order of cancellation made by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, shall be communicated to the Secretary of Justice of Puerto Rico, to the Secretary of the Treasury of Puerto Rico and to the part or parts of the Court of First Instance where this cancellation shall have been petitioned. The order of cancellation issued by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, with all necessary requirements, shall fully serve to cancel the corresponding inscription in the registry of property.
History —Mar. 9, 1911, No. 69, p. 224, § 6, eff. 30 days after Mar. 9, 1911.
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The Secretary of Justice shall issue an administrative order that shall apply to all sections of the Property Registry of the Commonwealth, directing the production of any statistics he deems pertinent and necessary for the proper administration thereof, for use by the agencies, departments, and public corporations of the local or federal governments, as well as for academic and research purposes.
History —Apr. 22, 1930, No. 19, p. 234, § 1, eff. 90 days after Apr. 22, 1930; June 28, 2013, No. 38, § 1.
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History —Apr. 22, 1930, No. 19, p. 234, § 2, eff. 90 days after Apr. 22, 1930; Repealed. Act.
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History —Apr. 22, 1930, No. 19, p. 234, § 3, eff. 90 days after Apr. 22, 1930; Repealed. Act.
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History —Apr. 22, 1930, No. 19, p. 234, § 4, eff. 90 days after Apr. 22, 1930; Repealed. Act.
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As soon as §§ 1735 and 1739 of this title takes effect, the Secretary of Justice shall proceed to prepare adequate forms and instructions to be used in a manner that, in his judgment, is advisable to better accomplish the purposes of §§ 1735 and 1739 of this title.
History —Apr. 22, 1930, No. 19, p. 234, § 5, eff. 90 days after Apr. 22, 1930; June 28, 2013, No. 38, § 5.
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The Secretary of Justice of Puerto Rico is hereby authorized to adopt the necessary measures for the purpose of transferring literally to new books the contents of such volumes in the various Registries of Property of the Commonwealth as are in a state of deterioration through age and constant use, for rebinding such books as he may deem necessary, and for binding the files of documents which form a part of the matters of said Registries.
History —May 12, 1952, No. 384, p. 760, § 1, eff. July 1, 1952.
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The Secretary of Justice shall determine the Registries of Property where it may be necessary to transfer to new books the contents of such deteriorated volumes, the number of registration volumes it may be necessary to rebind, and the number of files of documents that must be bound, and he is hereby empowered to prescribe the manner in which said work shall be carried out in said registries, chargeable to such appropriations as may be made.
History —May 12, 1952, No. 384, p. 760, § 2, eff. July 1, 1952.
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Before transferring to the new books the entries contained in the deteriorated registration volumes, the Registrars shall previously have the former authenticated by the proper part of the Court of First Instance, and, in addition, they shall set forth the reasons for which it has been necessary to reconstruct or transfer to new books the contents of the deteriorated books. After the transfer is made, the Registrar shall certify that he has compared the old entries against the new ones and that the latter constitute a true and exact copy of the originals, which shall remain under his custody.
History —May 12, 1952, No. 384, p. 760, § 3, eff. July 1, 1952.
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In the event that difficulties arise in the transfer of the said entries because of such deterioration of any of the pages of the volumes or because fragments are missing from any of the pages, the Registrar is hereby authorized to transfer the contents as far as it is legible and intelligible, and he is likewise empowered to reconstruct, at his most considered discretion and responsibility, the pertinent parts of deteriorated entries, in harmony with other entries and antecedents in the Registry having relation with the entries which are being transferred.
History —May 12, 1952, No. 384, p. 760, § 4, eff. July 1, 1952.
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The new or reconstructed books to which the entries contained in the deteriorated or old books are transferred are hereby declared to be substitute duplicate books or volumes, and the Registrars are hereby authorized to make subsequent entries in them. The old books shall constitute original records and as such shall be kept in the Registries.
History —May 12, 1952, No. 384, p. 760, § 5, eff. July 1, 1952.
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The Secretary of Justice shall appoint the necessary personnel to carry out the purposes of §§ 1740-1747 of this title, without being subject to the provisions of Act No. 345 of May 12, 1947.
History —May 12, 1952, No. 384, p. 760, § 6, eff. July 1, 1952.
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The sum of fifty-three thousand five hundred and forty (53,540) dollars is hereby appropriated to the Department of Justice for the fiscal year 1952-53, from any available funds in the Commonwealth Treasury.
For succeeding fiscal years there shall be appropriated in the General Budget of Expenses to carry on the Commonwealth Government, such sums as may be deemed necessary for the enforcement of the provisions of §§ 1740-1747 of this title.
History —May 12, 1952, No. 384, p. 760, § 7, eff. July 1, 1952.
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All laws or parts of laws providing for the transferring to new books of volumes of the registries of property in a state of deterioration, are hereby repealed.
History —May 12, 1952, No. 384, p. 760, § 8, eff. July 1, 1952.
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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 81 - Registries of Property and Registrars Generally (§§ 1701-1721 — 1770e) › § 1767a - Schedule of fees to be paid
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The schedule of fees to be paid hereinafter for the operation of the Property Registry, as §§ 1767a—1767e of this title provides, shall be as follows:
Number One.— For the presentation fee, the marginal notes and footnote to the title, with respect to each document whose recording, notation, cancellation or marginal note of ownership is requested, the sum of ten dollars ($10) shall be paid. Of the fees collected on this account, eight dollars ($8) shall be covered into a special fund, that is separate and distinct from any other money or fund belonging to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, which shall be under the custody of the Secretary of the Treasury for the exclusive use of the Secretary of Justice for the purpose of defraying the cost for the design, establishment and operation of a modern and mechanized system of the Property Registry throughout Puerto Rico. The resources covered into the special fund may be used by the Secretary of Justice for, among other purposes, acquiring, leasing, installing, adapting, maintaining and operating equipment, for appointing, training and contracting personnel or technical consultants, for leasing premises, for acquiring materials, for adopting regulations and for any other expense related to the design, establishment and operation of the modernization and mechanization system adopted by the Secretary of Justice.
The Secretary may likewise receive contributions and donations for the special fund from private persons or entities, as well as from agencies and public corporations of the Commonwealth Government, the municipal governments and the federal government. The special fund herein created may receive resources proceeding from the payment of fees for other registering activities, transactions and operations when the law expressly so provides.
Nothing of what is herein provided shall, however, prevent this special fund from being used to pay in advance the expenses needed for the efficient operation of the Property Registry related to the adoption of the modernization and mechanization system when funds have been requested for such purposes and have not been received, which shall be reimbursed chargeable to said funds when they are received.
The Secretary of Justice shall annually submit a report on the Modernization and Mechanization Plan of the Registry, its goals, achievements, obstacles, expenses incurred and a financial statement of the special fund herein created. Said report shall be submitted to the Governor of Puerto Rico and to the Legislature during the course of the regular legislative session.
If necessary, the Secretary of Justice may borrow money under the terms that may be most beneficial for the public interest in order to expedite the modernization and mechanization of the Property Registry pursuant to the plan previously established. Provided, That the Secretary shall guarantee the payment of the obligations thus contracted with the resources of the special fund created through this act.
The Secretary of Justice shall render a semi-annual report to the Secretary of the Treasury and to the Comptroller of Puerto Rico of the funds collected, the expenses incurred and paid, the obligations contracted, the property and equipment acquired and any other financial transaction conducted as part of the Modernization and Mechanization Plan of the Property Registry.
Once the implementation of the Modernization and Mechanization Plan of the Property Registry adopted by the Secretary of Justice has been completed and after all expenses for its implementation have been paid, the Secretary shall continue to use said funds to defray, in part, the operating expenses of the mechanized system and all those that may be directly or indirectly related to said system and to the efficient operation of the Registries.
Number Two.— For the recording, notation, cancelling, release, with respect to each property right, the following fees shall be paid:
(a) If the estate or right is valued at one thousand dollars ($1,000) or less, the fee shall be two dollars ($2).
(b) When the value of the estate or right exceeds one thousand dollars ($1,000), two dollars ($2) shall be paid for each one thousand dollars ($1,000) or fraction thereof of the nominal value of the estate, up to a maximum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000).
(c) When the value of the estate or right exceeds twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), there shall be charged fifty dollars ($50) for the first twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) and four dollars ($4) for each additional one thousand dollars ($1,000) or fraction thereof.
(d) For the marginal notes not involving any amount, four dollars ($4) shall be paid for each one.
(e) For free releases, four dollars ($4) shall be paid for each estate.
(f) Fees for annotating the priority reservation of a contract being negotiated shall be governed by subsection (a) or (b) of this section, but limited to a maximum of twenty-five dollars ($25).
(g) Fees for recording a contract with an option to purchase shall be governed by subsection (a) or (b) of this section on the amount of the sale price, but limited to a maximum of twenty-five dollars ($25).
(h) For the marginal notes and the preventive annotations of complaints, and their cancellation, four dollars ($4) shall be paid.
Number Three.— For each literal or abstract certificate, whatever the number of entries referred to may be, six dollars ($6) shall be charged for the first three (3) double-spaced legal pages, and two dollars ($2) for each additional double-spaced legal page.
In the case of a literal or abstract certificate made on a photocopying machine, one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) shall be paid for each page, including the pages on which pertinent entries are indicated and certified.
Number Four.— For each entry in the Book of Incompetents, ten dollars ($10) shall be charged.
History —June 20, 1963, No. 67, p. 216, § 1; June 26, 1964, No. 103, p. 320; May 30, 1970, No. 91, p. 240, §§ 1, 6; June 21, 1971, No. 49, p. 157; June 7, 1977, No. 54, p. 117; June 3, 1980, No. 89, p. 245; Aug. 12, 1982, No. 3, p. 216, § 1; Jan. 12, 1983, No. 4, p. 483; Aug. 5, 1989, No. 44, p. 149; July 21, 2000, No. 133, § 1; Sept. 29, 2004, No. 513, § 1; July 30, 2010, No. 116, § 1.
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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 81 - Registries of Property and Registrars Generally (§§ 1701-1721 — 1770e) › § 1767b - Schedule of fees to be paid—Rules
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The schedule of fees established in numbers 1 to 4 above [of § 1767a of this title] shall be enforced in accordance with the following rules:
First.— When a conveyance of an estate or right is made gratuitously, whether by gift, waiver of right, or any other act, the value of the estate or right shall be the value preliminarily accepted by the Secretary of the Treasury, as appears in the certificate of cancellation of lien issued by said officer.
Second.— In case of community of estates recorded, the tariff fees shall be charged without taking into consideration the number of members of the community or conveyers and acquirers of the estate or right involved. If the registration of the title is requested exclusively by one or various members of the community, fees shall be charged according to the total value of the share or shares involved.
Third.— With regard to the right of usufruct, use, and habitation, the value thereof, when not appearing from the title, shall be considered to be one-fourth of the value of the estate, and with respect to ownership in fee simple, the remaining three-fourths.
Fourth.— In cases of segregation and sale of estates or parts thereof, fees shall be charged exclusively on the price of the conveyance or conveyances made. If only the segregation is made, fees in accord with the value thereof shall be charged.
Fifth.— In cases of grouping of estates, in whatever form made, fees shall be charged on the value of the new estate or of the grouping considered as a unit. To cases of grouping and sale, and simple grouping, the provisions of the preceding rule for segregation shall apply.
Sixth.— If the value of each estate or right does not appear from the title, the fees to be charged shall be computed on the value of the estate according to the official assessment for the payment of the property tax.
Seventh.— In cases of lease the sum to be paid as rental throughout the term of the contract or the amount of twelve (12) annual rentals, whichever is less, shall serve as the basis for fixing the tariff fees. For the purposes of this provision, in no case shall extensions be taken into consideration.
When the contract does not establish the term of duration, the sum of twelve (12) annual rentals shall serve as basis thereof.
Eighth.— Mortgages and cancellations shall pay fees only for the principal amount secured.
Ninth.— When the registration of an entry, notice, cancellation, release or marginal note of right is denied and in its place a cautionary notice is entered, the whole amount of the fees shall be charged. If subsequently the conversion of said note into final entry of the right denied takes place within the term of the cautionary notice, the conversion shall be made free of charge.
Tenth.— When the party requesting the certificates withdraws his application before same is issued, the amount of stamps filed with this application shall be returned to the interested party.
Eleventh.— For grading the fees with respect to registrations, preventive notes, and cancellations of easements if the value of such rights does not arise from the instrument, ten dollars ($10) shall be charged for each entry.
Twelfth.— In cases of conveyance, assignment or purchase sale of mortgaged estates according to the Property Registry, if it does not appear from the document that the mortgage is included in the selling price, the basis for the payment of registration fees shall be the price of the conveyance, assignment, or selling price of the total sum of the mortgages, whichever is greater.
History —June 20, 1963, No. 67, p. 216, § 2; June 14, 1966, No. 38, p. 167; May 30, 1970, No. 91, p. 240, §§ 2 and 6; Aug. 12, 1982, No. 3, p. 216, § 2.
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005)›Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925)›Chapter 81 - Registries of Property and Registrars Generally (§§ 1701-1721 — 1770e)›§ 1767c - Schedule of fees to be paid—Forms of payment
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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 81 - Registries of Property and Registrars Generally (§§ 1701-1721 — 1770e) › § 1767c - Schedule of fees to be paid—Forms of payment
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The fees accrued by the operations in the registry, as provided by §§ 1767a to 1767e of this title, shall be paid in the Internal Revenue Collector’s Offices of Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or with the stamps, securities, or documents that the Secretary of the Treasury authorizes for these purposes, and issues manually or electronically himself or through the internal revenue stamps agents.
A voucher shall be issued. The copy of the voucher bought in a Tax Collector’s Office, or the original of the voucher bought electronically (whether through an agent for the sale of internal revenue stamps or of the Department of the Treasury), shall be turned over when the document or documents are presented at the corresponding section of the Property Registry of Puerto Rico. The Registrar shall keep the vouchers and shall file them by fiscal years, proceeding to destroy those that pertain to all the documents filed prior to the closing date of the last intervention by the Office of the Comptroller, proceeding in like manner in future interventions. The taxpayer shall request a separate ten (10) -dollar voucher for the entry of a real estate mortgage up to a maximum of three (3) vouchers for the total registration fees.
The Registrar shall record the number, amount, and date of the payment vouchers in the book of presentation or of registration, as the case may be, and on the certified copies of the documents.
In those case[s] the payment vouchers issued for these purposes are not used by the taxpayer, the latter may request a refund of the fees thus paid, through a written request to the Secretary of the Treasury, attaching the original and a copy of the payment voucher originally issued by the Collector’s Office, or the original of the payment voucher issued electronically.
When the amount of the payment vouchers exceeds the registration fees determined by the Registrar for the registration of any document, the taxpayer may obtain the refund of the fees paid in excess, provided he/she requests it in writing to the Secretary of the Treasury. The taxpayer who has acquired the receipt in the Tax Collector’s Office shall attach to his or her request the payment voucher issued, and a certificate signed by the Registrar stating the amount of the fees that can be reimbursed to the taxpayer. The taxpayer that has acquired the voucher electronically shall attach, the Registrar’s certificate and a copy of the voucher certified by him/her to the request for a refund.
History —June 20, 1963, No. 67, p. 216, § 3; May 30, 1970, No. 91, p. 240, §§ 3 and 6; June 7, 1977, No. 54, p. 117; Aug. 12, 1982, No. 3, p. 216, § 3; Aug. 10, 1988, No. 163, p. 702; Dec. 28, 1999, No. 364, § 1, eff. 180 days after Dec. 28, 1999.
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005)›Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925)›Chapter 81 - Registries of Property and Registrars Generally (§§ 1701-1721 — 1770e)›§ 1767d - Schedule of fees to be paid—Presentation of receipt of payment
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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 81 - Registries of Property and Registrars Generally (§§ 1701-1721 — 1770e) › § 1767d - Schedule of fees to be paid—Presentation of receipt of payment
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No document to which the corresponding receipts of payment have not been attached in payment of the total fees fixed by §§ 1767a-1767e of this title shall be accepted for presentation in the Property Registry of Puerto Rico, and the Registrar shall so state in writing at the foot of the document, if so requested by the interested party. An appeal may be taken to the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico from the action of the Registrar, by filing the proper proceeding; Provided, That if the interested party wishes to invoke relief in protection of his registration rights, he shall file the total amount of the fees required by the Property Registrar before perfecting his appeal.
History —May 30, 1970, No. 91, p. 240, § 4, eff. 90 days after May 30, 1970.
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005)›Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925)›Chapter 81 - Registries of Property and Registrars Generally (§§ 1701-1721 — 1770e)›§ 1767e - Schedule of fees to be paid—Limitation of entry of presentation
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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 81 - Registries of Property and Registrars Generally (§§ 1701-1721 — 1770e) › § 1767e - Schedule of fees to be paid—Limitation of entry of presentation
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When the applicant requests in writing to limit the entry of presentation, the Property Registrar shall request the latter to deliver a new receipt in payment of the operations in the registry to be made and he shall return to the applicant the receipt originally delivered.
History —May 30, 1970, No. 91, p. 240, § 5, eff. 90 days after May 30, 1970.
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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 81 - Registries of Property and Registrars Generally (§§ 1701-1721 — 1770e) › § 1770a - Exemption of United States Government from certain fees
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The United States of America and its agencies and instrumentalities, including The Federal Land Bank of Baltimore, the Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of Baltimore, The Baltimore Bank of Cooperatives, The Federal Land Bank Association of San Juan and The Puerto Rico Production Credit Association, are hereby exempted from payment of all kinds of duties, taxes or fees prescribed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico for the authentication of documents before a notary or before any public officer and for the registration of documents and other operations in the registries of property.
History —June 9, 1956, No. 43, p. 132; June 2, 1967, No. 93, p. 309.
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005)›Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925)›Chapter 81 - Registries of Property and Registrars Generally (§§ 1701-1721 — 1770e)›§ 1770b - Model deeds with uniform agreements and conditions
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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 81 - Registries of Property and Registrars Generally (§§ 1701-1721 — 1770e) › § 1770b - Model deeds with uniform agreements and conditions
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In all cases where deeds for the constitution of mortgages, or other instruments, executed in behalf of any natural or artificial person, are drafted after a model with uniform agreements and conditions, the property registrars of Puerto Rico are hereby authorized to make, upon the first registration of such deeds in each municipality, a literal transcription of all the uniform and invariable conditions contained in said instruments, and also, upon subsequent entries in behalf of the same persons, made by virtue of contracts entered into by different grantors, even in the case of different farms, to set forth all the particular details of the contract, making reference to the first registration made and in which the agreements and conditions transcribed are contained, even if such registration has been canceled, which circumstance shall be set forth; and in all other respects, the registration shall conform to the provisions of the mortgage law and its regulations concerning full or brief registrations.
History —May 16, 1958, No. 15, p. 18, § 1.
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005)›Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925)›Chapter 81 - Registries of Property and Registrars Generally (§§ 1701-1721 — 1770e)›§ 1770c - Exemption of Commonwealth and agencies from fees
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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 81 - Registries of Property and Registrars Generally (§§ 1701-1721 — 1770e) › § 1770c - Exemption of Commonwealth and agencies from fees
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(a) The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, its agencies, instrumentalities, organizations, dependencies and political subdivisions, as well as the authorities and public corporations, including all retirement systems established by said entities, are hereby exempted from the payment of all kinds of fees prescribed for the registration of documents and other operations in the Registry of Property of Puerto Rico; Provided, further, That the exemption herein granted shall be made extensive to the Savings and Loan Fund Association of the Employees of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
(b) All existing laws granting exemption from the payment of fees as provided in subsection (a) of this section which are not inconsistent with this section shall continue in force.
History —June 13, 1958, No. 30, p. 39, §§ 1, 2; June 10, 1959, No. 25, p. 83, § 2.
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005)›Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925)›Chapter 81 - Registries of Property and Registrars Generally (§§ 1701-1721 — 1770e)›§ 1770d - Exemption of cooperative associations from fees
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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 81 - Registries of Property and Registrars Generally (§§ 1701-1721 — 1770e) › § 1770d - Exemption of cooperative associations from fees
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Cooperative associations organized under the laws of Puerto Rico and those foreign associations and corporations operating as cooperative associations, as defined in Section 2 of Act No. 291 of April 9, 1946, as amended, are hereby exempted from the payment of all kinds of fees prescribed for the presentation and recording of documents and other operations in the Property Registry of Puerto Rico. Said cooperative associations are also hereby exempted from the payment of the fees prescribed by §§ 851 to 858 of Title 4, as amended, on any contract in which they dispose of, encumber or alienate their properties, as well as on any contract with their members related with the purposes for which such cooperative associations have been organized.
History —July 12, 1960, No. 114, p. 318, § 1; June 13, 1966, No. 24, p. 145.
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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 81 - Registries of Property and Registrars Generally (§§ 1701-1721 — 1770e) › § 1770e - Exemption in labor cases
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There is hereby exempted from the payment of dues of whatever kind, any operation performed at the property registry to enter attachments, complaints, and/or judgments in cases heretofore or hereafter filed before the courts by the lawyers of the Department of Labor and Human Resources in representation of workers or employees.
History —June 14, 1961, No. 62, p. 120.
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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 85 - Registry of Judgments Creating Liens on Real Property (§§ 1801 — 1813) › § 1801 - Abstract of judgment
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It shall be the obligation of the clerk of any of the Sections or Parts of the Court of First Instance, whenever the person in whose favor a judgment has been pronounced, or his/her agent, attorney or assignee, request it, to issue and deliver to such petitioner, through the payment of a fee of fifty (50) cents for each certification under seal and forty (40) cents per copy of additional folios that comprise the abstract of said judgment, duly certified and officially signed by said clerk, and stamped with the seal of the corresponding Section or Part of the Court of First Instance, if available.
History —Mar. 8, 1906, p. 93, § 1; Feb. 16, 1996, No. 11, § 1, eff. 60 days after Feb. 16, 1996.
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