P.R. Laws tit. 9, § 5030
By request of the President of the Senate of Puerto Rico or the Speaker of the House of Representatives, as the case may be, the Secretary shall issue special license plates to every member of the Legislature of Puerto Rico duly sworn as such in the Legislative Body to which he/she belongs, in addition to the official license plates of their motor vehicles, subject to the following conditions:
(a) The information needed to identify the special license plates in the corresponding official registration of the motor vehicles shall be included in the motor vehicle and trailer registry.
(b) A twenty-dollar ($20) internal revenue stamp shall be cancelled for the issue of said special license plates, which amount shall be deposited in the DISCO Fund, to defray production costs of said license plates.
(c) The use of said special license plates on the public roads of Puerto Rico is only authorized during the effective term of the official license plate and while the concerned party remains in office.
(d) Every legislator who ceases in his/her functions as such, for any reason, shall be entitled to keep the special license for legislators that he/she was issued by the Secretary.
(e) Any person who displays a special license plate for legislators without proper authorization, shall incur a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be sanctioned with a fine of not less than two hundred dollars ($200) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500).
History —Jan. 7, 2000, No. 22, § 2.29; June 3, 2004, No. 132, § 2, eff. 8 months after June 3, 2004.