P.R. Laws tit. 16, § 1349
When the national nominating convention selection process for the delegates, presidential candidates, or both, is to be defrayed with public funds, all contributions to the candidates for delegates, delegates, block of delegates or groups that intervene in behalf of or against a candidacy for delegate shall be addressed pursuant to the limits and obligations on the rendering of reports set forth by Act No. 4 of December 20, 1977.
Understanding that affiliated political parties ordinarily do not intervene in behalf of nor against any candidate for delegate during the Presidential Primaries; even if the event is subsidized with public funds, said affiliated political parties shall not be subject to the limits or obligations of the Puerto Rico Electoral Act. However, if said affiliated political parties do intervene in behalf of or against any candidate for delegate during the Presidential Primaries, then same would indeed be subject to the limits and obligations of the Puerto Rico Electoral Act.
In any intervention of the affiliated political parties that is not authorized by this chapter in electoral processes set forth by law and entrusted to the Commonwealth Elections Commission, same shall be bound to observe the limits and render reports as set forth in Act No. 4 of November 20, 1977, as amended. In any other case which is not set forth by said Act, the financial activities of the affiliated political parties shall be governed by the provisions set forth by the federal laws applicable to political campaigns for candidacies.
History —Sept. 24, 1979, No. 6, p. 997, § 29, renumbered as § 26 on Mar. 15, 1984, No. 2, p. 448, § 15; renumbered as § 25 on July 2, 1987, No. 89, p. 347, § 12; July 17, 2003, No. 163, § 2.