P.R. Laws tit. 24, § 578
The epidemiology technician shall summon, interview, investigate and offer guidance to any retarded or mentally disabled person, including any minor, who suffers or is suspected of suffering from a sexually transmitted disease, hereby being relieved from civil liability when rendering such services to retarded or mentally disabled minors under twenty-one (21) years of age without the prior consent of the parents or the persons legally called upon to give such consent.
The epidemiology technician, in coordination with the Center for Aid to Rape Victims, shall summon, interview and notify any victim of the conduct described in § 577 of this title, whose assailant has been found to be positive or reactive to infection by the HIV virus and shall offer guidance as to the provisions of this chapter regarding examinations and treatment. With the prior authorization of the convict, the epidemiology [technician], in coordination with Correctional Health, shall summon and notify the spouse or consensual partner of said convict about the results of the tests conducted to detect the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).
Any person summoned by the epidemiology technician and notified of being diagnosed positive of any sexually transmitted disease, shall be required to submit to examination or treatment at the sexually transmitted disease clinics established by the department within ten (10) days following the notice, or otherwise said person shall be sanctioned as provided in § 583 of this title.
History —June 4, 1983, No. 81, p. 180, § 8, renumbered as § 10 and amended on July 2, 1985, No. 50, p. 177, § 3; July 22, 1988, No. 129, p. 532, § 4; July 27, 1993, No. 31, § 3; renumbered as § 11 and amended on Aug. 15, 1999, No. 235, § 6.