P.R. Laws tit. 20, § 711u
The Board may exempt licensed engineers, architects, surveyors and landscape architects from the residential requirement provided in §§ 711—711z of this title in the following cases:
(a) When the jurisdiction of origin of the professional likewise exempts Puerto Rican professional from said residential requirement.
(b) When the applicant forms an association to practice his/her profession with another architect, landscape architect, engineer or surveyor licensed and domiciled in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, pursuant to the requirements established by the Board through regulations.
The Board shall grant a license to those professionals who are exempted from complying with the residential requirement, and said license shall be conditioned by the requirements of the dispensation under which it is issued and be subject to the special norms established for these cases by the College of Architects and Landscape Architects or the College of Engineers and Surveyors, as the case may be. They shall also be bound to renew said conditioned license annually after paying the corresponding fees.
History —Aug. 12, 1988, No. 173, p. 797, § 23, renumbered as § 29 and amended on Dec. 26, 1997, No. 185, § 30.