P.R. Laws tit. 12, § 241f
The Secretary may impose administrative fines to any person for:
(a) Extracting, removing, mutilating or otherwise destroying or damaging any coral reef or reef community or portions thereof.
(b) Offering for sale, exchange, donation or otherwise trafficking in or disposing of live or dead coral reef or live or dead portions thereof and organisms deemed attractive for aquariums and fishponds.
(c) Polluting, depositing solid or liquid waste or using any chemical substance on coral reefs and coral communities or portions thereof or on associated ecosystems, such as marine grasslands.
(d) Anchoring, mooring, securing, or otherwise stopping a vessel outside the anchoring buoys enclosure in areas that have been identified by buoys or any other floating marker or within duly identified specially designated, reef recovery or ecologically sensitive areas, without the prior authorization of the Secretary.
(e) Removing, eliminating or damaging the anchoring buoys and the marker buoys established by the Secretary to enclose coral reef zones.
(f) Fishing, snorkeling or skin diving in reef recover areas, marine reservations and other duly identified areas without the prior authorization of the Secretary.
(g) Refusing to comply with any order or resolutions issued by the Secretary pursuant to the faculties and duties imposed by this chapter.
(h) Violating any provision of this chapter and the regulations adopted pursuant thereto.
The administrative fines shall not exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000) per violation nor be of less than five hundred dollars ($500). In addition to said administrative fines, the Secretary may furthermore require the payment of a reasonable sum to meet the cost of redressing any damages caused by any person in violation of the provisions of this chapter or the regulations approved pursuant thereto.
[The Secretary can commence an action for a restraining order or any other available legal remedy for the purpose of preventing the violation of any provision of this chapter or of any order or regulation approved there of.]
History —July 15, 1999, No. 147, § 9.