P.R. Laws tit. 16, § 627d
(a) Any expenditure made by a party at the central level to support or oppose the nomination, candidacy or election of any candidate for Governor, his/her platform or the platform of his/her party, shall be deemed to be drawn against the limit available to a political party or its candidate for Governor or an independent candidate for Governor under § 629a of this title.
(b) Any person or group of persons not affiliated and not contributing with a political party, campaign committee or authorized committee of a candidate, aspirant or party, and who independently solicits or accepts contributions and gifts or makes independent expenditures for the benefit of a party, ideology, aspirant or candidate shall publicly disclose and specify that such expenditure has not been approved by the party, aspirant or candidate or his/her committees in question or coordinated with the party, aspirant or candidate or his/her committees.
(c) Any oral and/or visual or written communication whereby gifts or contributions are solicited or accepted or whereby independent expenditures are incurred to the benefit of a party, ideology, aspirant or candidate shall indicate clearly and unequivocally that the activity has been carried out or that the advertisement has been placed without the authorization of the benefited party, aspirant or candidate or his/her committees or coordinated with the party, aspirant or candidate or his/her committees.
(d) This section shall apply to any expenditures made that fail to comply with the provisions herein and which shall be deemed drawn against the spending limit of the political party, aspirant or candidate supported by the person or group of persons concerned or to which they are affiliated, including if an independent campaign fails to comply with the requirements herein provided; and the expenditures thereof shall be deemed as corresponding to the supported party, aspirant, candidate, option or ideology. However, the political party or independent candidate for Governor may refute such presumption following the procedure approved by the Election Comptroller to such purposes.
History —Nov. 18, 2011, No. 222, § 8.004; renumbered as § 7.004 and amended on Dec. 19, 2014, No. 233, § 50.