P.R. Laws tit. 20, § 73i
The Association’s annual fee shall be established as provided for in the bylaws. Retired and inactive physicians, as well as physicians in training, shall be entitled to reduced fees, as provided for in the bylaws of the Association.
Any associate who does not pay the fee on the date established for said purpose in the bylaws, shall be subject to a complaint being filed against him or her at the Board of Examiners for violating § 73f of this title, in order to suspend the license that authorizes him or her to practice medicine in Puerto Rico, including any of its specialties. The Medical Board of Examiners shall establish the procedure for these suspensions through bylaws, the approval of which shall be notified to all surgeons through the means it deems to be more effective and convenient.
Any surgeon affected by a decision of the Board of Examiners whereby his/her license is being suspended for failure to pay the Association’s fees, may request the judicial review of such a determination, pursuant to what is established in Act No. 22 of April 22, 1931, and in §§ 2101 et seq. of Title 3, known as “Uniform Administrative Procedures Act of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico”. For the duration of the license suspension, the surgeon in question shall not be able to practice medicine or any of its specialties, even when in all other aspects he or she is qualified as an associate; however, the Board of Examiners shall restitute [sic] it once the person pays the amount he/she owes.
The associate shall not accumulate additional debt during the time he/she is suspended or has not practiced the profession in Puerto Rico. Temporary license suspensions or permanent license revocations, decreed by the causes consigned in Act No. 22 of April 22, 1931, which are final and binding, shall also entail the automatic suspension of the surgeon as an Association member for the entire duration of the suspension or revocation. Said Board shall notify the Association of any license suspension or revocation it decrees.
History —Aug. 13, 1994, No. 77, § 10; Nov. 4, 1997, No. 129, § 9; July 13, 2001, No. 56, § 7.