P.R. Laws tit. 29, § 695
(a) Illegal acts.— It shall be illegal:
(1) Not to pay the assessment provided in subsections (a), (b) and (c) of § 690 of this title.
(2) For an employer to neglect to notify the Director of the name of a chauffeur or person covered by this chapter, employed by him, the license number by which he is authorized to operate a motor vehicle, his social security number and his residential address.
(3) For a lessee to lease one or more motor vehicles and fails to pay the assessment provided for in § 690 of this title, in addition to the assessment of each chauffeur or driver employed.
(4) If a chauffeur who operates his own motor vehicle as his own employer in the public transportation service fails to pay the assessment provided for in § 690 of this title.
(5) For every natural or [juridical] person who leases one or more motor vehicles to fail to notify the Director within the next five (5) days after the lease is granted, giving the license numbers of the motor vehicles leased, make and type of motor vehicle and the names, social security numbers or employers’ numbers, as the case may be, and the addresses of the natural or [juridical] persons leasing them, as required by § 690 of this title.
(6) To furnish the Director false information or to conceal information for the purpose of deceitfully entering the insurance plan or of fraudulently obtaining any of the benefits granted by this chapter.
(7) For a chauffeur to refuse to show the license which authorizes him to operate a motor vehicle, as well as the license of the motor vehicle he operates, when they are required of him by the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources or his representatives, as provided in § 690 of this title.
(8) For an employer to refuse to allow the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources or his authorized representative to inspect and/or copy his payrolls, pursuant to the provisions of § 690 of this title.
(b) Penalties.—
(1) Every person convicted of violating the provisions of clauses (1), (2), (3), (4) and (7) of subsection (a) of this section, shall be punished as follows:
(A) For the first violation, by a fine of not less than one dollar ($1.00) nor more than fifty dollars ($50) or jail for a term of not less than one day nor more than fifteen (15) days, or both penalties, in the discretion of the court.
(B) For recidivism, by a fine of not less than fifty-one dollars ($51) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100), or jail for a term of not less than sixteen (16) days nor more than one month, or both penalties, in the discretion of the court.
(2) Every person convicted of violating the provisions of clauses (5), (6) and (8) of subsection (a) of this section shall be punished as follows:
(A) For the first violation: by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100).
(B) For recidivism: by a fine of not less than one hundred and one dollars ($101) nor more than two hundred dollars, ($200) or jail for a term of not less than one month nor more than two (2) months, or both penalties, in the discretion of the court.
History —May 15, 1950, No. 428, p. 1038, added as § 14 on June 21, 1968, No. 111, p. 227; June 21, 1971, No. 48, p. 136; Nov. 23, 1975, No. 8, p. 934, § 12; June 3, 1976, No. 146, p. 437, § 3; July 20, 1979, No. 172, p. 450, § 5; renumbered as § 17 on June 18, 1980, No. 149, p. 663, § 14; renumbered as § 18 on Apr. 15, 1988, No. 16, p. 74, § 2.