P.R. Laws tit. 24, § 6153x
When a mental healthcare professional requires the presence of a family member or the legal guardian of an adult, or the parent with physical or legal custody or the legal guardian of a minor who receives mental healthcare services, the family member shall respond immediately. When the family member or legal guardian refuses to respond without any justified reason, after having been duly summoned on two (2) consecutive occasions, and such summons are so entered in the clinical record, the director of the institutional provider, by petition of the mental healthcare professional, may resort to the Court of First Instance to request that an order to appear be issued under penalty of contempt. Said order shall be served by a [courts] marshal not later than twenty-four (24) hours after its date of issue. The institutional provider shall notify the court whether or not the person so ordered appeared. If the person thus summoned should not appear, the court may impose a contempt order, as well as any other applicable measure.
History —Oct. 2, 2000, No. 408, § 2.25; Aug. 6, 2008, No. 183, § 20.