P.R. Laws tit. 1, § 509
The Disabled Persons Investigating Official shall provide, through regulations, for everything pertinent to the implementation of this act within the one hundred and eighty (180) days that follow the effective date thereof, and its dispositions shall take effect once the same have been approved by the Governor of Puerto Rico. The Disabled Persons Investigating Official is likewise empowered to impose administrative fines up to a maximum amount of five thousand dollars ($5,000), after due notice and hearing, on any natural or juridical person who violates the provisions of this chapter.
Any person with a physical, mental, or sensory disability who, for the mere fact of such disability, has been subjected to discrimination by any public or private institution, may present a complaint before the Disabled Persons Investigating Official, on his own, or through his parents, tutor, or legal representative, against the public or private institution in question, or its director, dean, or administrator.
The Disabled Persons Investigating Official, or the person upon whom he delegates, may, upon prior notice and hearing, resort to the competent Part of the Court of First Instance for jurisdictional support for the latter to issue a cease and desist order, as well as other corrective orders which, according to the evidence presented and the applicable statutes, may be in order.
He may also, if he deems it proper and convenient in the best public interest, present a report with due justification, before the Legislature of Puerto Rico, a report recommending that no public funds be appropriated to the public or private institution that violates this chapter.
The party which is affected adversely by the decision of the Disabled Persons Investigating Official, may request him to reconsider his decision pursuant to the procedures established by §§ 2101 et seq. of Title 3, known as the “Uniform Administrative Procedures Act”.
Any decision handed down on a reconsideration request may be judicially reviewed within the terms, and pursuant to the procedures established by the aforementioned sections.
History —July 2, 1985, No. 44, p. 155, § 9, renumbered as § 11 and amended on Dec. 20, 1991, No. 105, § 12.