P.R. Laws tit. 24, § 577
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Any physician or health professional or representative who examines or treats a minor under twenty-one (21) years of age, or a retarded, or mentally disabled person suffering or suspected to be suffering from a sexually transmitted disease, without first obtaining the consent of the parents or the persons legally called upon to give such consent, is hereby relieved from civil liability. The clinics and hospitals which render said services are, likewise, hereby relieved of liability.
History —June 4, 1983, No. 81, p. 180, § 7, renumbered as § 9 on July 2, 1985, No. 50, p. 177, § 4; renumbered as § 10 on Aug. 15, 1999, No. 235, § 5; Apr. 6, 2008, No. 36, § 6.