P.R. Laws tit. 27, § 2051
(a) Any natural or juridical person to whom the Public Service Commission issues or has issued an authorization, franchise or license to operate a vehicle or public vehicle enterprise, distributors of gas oil or a motor vehicle devoted to the transportation of purchased goods (shopping car), and of passengers as an activity that is incidental to the main service, a motor vehicle engaged in the transportation of students, a motor vehicle engaged in the towing of other vehicles (tow truck), a motor vehicle engaged in hauling of general freight and a motor vehicle wholly engaged in the transportation or hauling of aggregates for industrial or commercial purposes or any person engaged in said activity, as these two (2) terms are defined in §§ 2001 et seq. of this title, may request from the Commission the granting of a medallion in representation of said authorization or franchise.
What has been established in this subsection and subsequently in this chapter shall prevail over what could be incompatible herewith, and with regard to public vehicles or heavy motor vehicles that are their owner’s working tools, as this term is defined in Section 1-109 of Act No. 141 of July 20, 1960, as amended, and over what is established by subsection (4a) of § 1130 of Title 32, that refers to properties exempted from attachment.
(b) The medallion shall consist of a certificate on which the official seal of the Commission shall be embossed, the franchise number it represents, and the date of issue thereof and any other information deemed necessary for its optimum use as a negotiable document.
(c) Under no circumstance shall the franchise number or the date of issue that are embossed on the face of the medallion certificate [be] mutilate[d] in such a way that the number and date are undistinguishable.
(d) Every application shall include fifty dollars ($50) in cash, postal money order or certified check.
History —June 8, 1972, No. 7, p. 353, § 1; June 11, 1976, No. 3, p. 652, § 2; June 13, 1977, No. 61, p. 157, § 1; June 28, 1978, No. 83, p. 266, § 1; July 12, 1979, No. 92, p. 231, § 1; Dec. 8, 1990, No. 31, p. 1533, § 1; July 28, 1998, No. 181, § 1; Dec. 19, 2002, No. 282, § 71, eff. 180 days after Dec. 19, 2002.