P.R. Laws tit. 20, § 660
It shall be the duty of every agronomist to affix to any official document prepared by him/her, a stamp which the Association shall adopt and issue in the amount of fifty cents ($0.50), which document shall have no legal standing until the aforementioned stamp is affixed thereto. No Government agency, dependency or instrumentality, or court of justice, municipality or corporation of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico shall accept official documents not bearing the corresponding cancellation of the affixed stamp, with his/her seal, signature, and license number.
For the purposes of this chapter, an official document shall be deemed to be any report concerning the rendering of professional services, such as advising, counseling, capacity building, training, teaching, demonstrating, researching, exploring, testing, planning, managing, appraising, pricing, selling, financing, supervising, inspecting, and certifying with regard to public or private services rendered in agriculture or the development of agriculture-related businesses, products, equipment and services; the use of pesticides and weed killers to fight insects and weeds in farms, homes, industries, public thoroughfares or sites, and any other places, to be written in the form of a certification upon which the agronomist shall affix his/her signature, his/her license number and the seal. Through this seal, the Agronomist assumes responsibility for his/her work and guarantees that the process followed in the formulation of said document is compatible with the principles that are generally accepted in the profession.
Any report, expert opinion and other acts proper to Agronomists shall be ruled to be null and void or illegal when issued by persons who are not members of this Association.
It shall be the responsibility of the Agronomists Association of Puerto Rico to inform the agronomists and their employers which reports shall be prepared as certificates. Likewise, it shall be the responsibility of all agronomists to keep a Certification Register. The Association and the Board are hereby empowered to establish the pertinent regulations to that effect.
In the case of those agronomists who are full-time employees and receive a fixed salary either from the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, its agencies, dependencies, instrumentalities, municipalities, or from the private sector, and who, therefore, do not generate income based upon the number of services rendered, the stamps required by this chapter shall be defrayed by said employers.
History —Apr. 9, 1941, No. 20, p. 361, added § 24 [second] on Aug. 5, 1993, No. 42, § 1; renumbered as § 30 and amended on Dec. 13, 2006, No. 265, § 15.