P.R. Laws tit. 2, § 154a
(1) Pursuant to the provisions of § 154 of this title, when a witness who is summoned pursuant to §§ 151 and 152 of this title does not appear to testify or does not produce the books, papers, records, or documents or objects, as required, or when any witness thus summoned refuses to answer any question with regard to any matter or investigation that is pending before the Legislature, or before the House of Representatives or the Senate, or before a committee or subcommittee of any of said bodies, or before a joint committee or subcommittee of both bodies, or before an investigating official, as provided in § 151 of this title, the President or Vice President of any of said legislative bodies may request the help of the Superior Part of the San Juan Court of First Instance to require the assistance and the statement of witnesses, and the production and delivery of the documents or objects requested in the matter, inquiry, or investigation that said Legislature, House of Representatives, Senate, committee, subcommittee or joint committee, or investigating official is conducting.
(2) Once the petition is filed before the Superior Part of the San Juan Court of First Instance, if it shows thereby that the witness failed to comply with the order of the Legislature, or of the House of Representatives, or the Senate, or of the committee or subcommittee of one of the bodies, or of the joint commission or subcommittee, depending on the case, said court shall issue a summons requiring and ordering the witness to appear and testify, or to produce the requested evidence, documents, or objects or both, before the Legislature, the Senate, the House of Representatives, committee, subcommittee, or joint committee, or before said investigating official, depending on the case; and any disobedience of the order issued by the court shall be punished by it as civil contempt.
(3) If the witness fails to comply with the order of the court filed under admonition of civil contempt, when the contempt hearing is held, the witness may invoke in it all the constitutional, legal, and de facto issues deemed pertinent. In no case shall there be the right to discovery of evidence in behalf of a witness summoned to appear before the Legislature.
History —Political Code, 1902, added as § 34-A on June 23, 1955, No. 100, p. 526, § 2; July 23, 1987, No. 5, p. 605, § 2; Jan. 20, 2000, No. 38, § 4.