P.R. Laws tit. 20, § 711t
The Board, at the request of the interested party and after payment of the fee provided by regulations, may register and issue engineering, surveying, architecture or landscape architecture certificates or licenses to any person who holds a license issued by the competent authority of any state, territory or possession of the United States of America or of any country, provided the requirement are not substantially in conflict with the provisions of §§ 711—711z of this title and whose basic requirements are not less than those specified in the law governing the pertinent register in effect locally at the time in which said certificate is issued. To that effect the applicant must meet the requirements stated in §§ 711—711z of this title and of the state, territory or possession of the United States or the foreign country of which the applicant is a citizen and from whom it has been authorized; and shall, also grant the same rights, with no exceptions whatsoever, to the engineers, architects, surveyors or landscape architects authorized to practice their profession in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The Board may establish reciprocity agreements for the granting of licenses or certificates with other political jurisdictions, which shall be granted through written agreements with the bodies charged with regulating the professions of engineering, architecture, surveying and landscape architecture in the jurisdictions concerned.
In the case of the profession of engineering, an official certificate signed by the Secretary of State or the authorized official of the state, territory of the foreign country concerned shall be required, which shall guarantee the same rights to the professionals of Puerto Rico that are granted to its own citizens.
The clauses and conditions of the reciprocity agreements, as well as the norms and procedures for the application of this section, shall be subject to regulation by the Board.
History —Aug. 12, 1988, No. 173, p. 797, § 22, renumbered as § 28 and amended on Dec. 26, 1997, No. 185, § 29.