P.R. Laws tit. 20, § 2559
(a) Any person who practices the profession of health educator or community health educator in Puerto Rico and advertises as such without having a license duly issued by the Board of Examiners created herein, or who during the suspension of his license practices as a person authorized therefor shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be subject to a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500), or imprisonment for a term which shall not exceed six (6) months, or both penalties, [at] the discretion of the court.
(b) Any person who deliberately furnishes false information to obtain a license under this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and his conviction shall subject him to a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500), or imprisonment for a term which shall not exceed six (6) months, or both penalties, at the discretion of the court.
(c) Every natural or juridical person who puts into circulation, sells, buys, donates, transfers or negotiates with the contents of the questions or answers which constitute the revalidation examination for the health educator, or community health educator; or who helps or participates in putting into circulation, or the sale, purchase, donation, transfer or negotiation of the contents of the questions or answers which constitute a revalidation examination, whether by an original, copy, photocopy or any of the materials used in the preparation of the examination, shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction shall be punished by a fixed imprisonment for three (3) years or a fine which shall not exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000) or be less than five hundred and one dollars ($501), or both penalties, in the discretion of the court. Under aggravating circumstances, the fixed penalty may be increased to a maximum of five (5) years, and if there are extenuating circumstances the established fixed penalty may be reduced to two (2) years.
History —July 3, 1975, No. 148, p. 455, § 9, renumbered as § 10 and amended on June 4, 1983, No. 85, p. 195, § 10; renumbered again as § 11 on Dec. 20, 1991, No. 112, § 7.