P.R. Laws tit. 15, § 301r
Each cockpit shall prepare its own match program. The cockfighting day may begin at 9:00 a.m. and end not later than 12:00 a.m. every day. Within this fifteen-hour frame, according to the cockfights days requested and assigned, it may determine the time in which the roosters shall be pitted. Within this time schedule, a maximum of fifty (50) matches shall be pitted. The registration judge shall ensure that the fights continue uninterruptedly. The schedule of state tournaments sponsored by the Sports and Recreation Department, through the Cockfighting Affairs Office, and that of those sponsored by cockpits and the night matches may be regulated through special norms to the effect issued by the Secretary.
The registration judge who allows equipping a gamecock and/or the pit judge who allows the beginning of a cockfight outside of the schedule stipulated, shall be sanctioned through the regulations of the Sports and Recreation Department by the suspension of their license until the payment of the fine imposed is made, in the Department of the Treasury, upon previous administrative hearing before the Cockfighting Affairs Commission. The operator of the cockpit who requests the authorization of the registration judge to allow equipping the gamecocks so that the pit judge may authorize cockfights out of the schedule stipulated by this chapter shall be sanctioned by a fine which shall be established through regulations and the closing of the cockpit until said fine is paid in the Department of the Treasury, upon previous administrative hearing before the Cockfighting Affairs Commission.
History —July 31, 2007, No. 98, § 22, eff. 90 days after July 31, 2007.