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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 7C - Children and Adolescents Health Conservation Act of Puerto Rico (§§ 183 — 183h) › § 183g - Confidentiality

All evaluations as well as the reports that arise from the same shall be strictly confidential. For such reason, the consent of the father, mother or legal or de facto guardian of the student shall be necessary if said data is to be used for a purpose other than that set forth in this chapter. The Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, however, may use the results of said tests as a source of statistical data.
History —Sept. 1, 2000, No. 296, § 9.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 7C - Children and Adolescents Health Conservation Act of Puerto Rico (§§ 183 — 183h) › § 183h - Funding

The Secretary of Education and the Secretary of Health are hereby empowered to accept financial or professional and technical assistance or cooperation of any nature, whether financial or in property and services, including donations, be it in cash, technical or personnel services, or equipment from individuals, citizen groups or private entities, from profit or nonprofit institutions, from the United States Government or its states, or from the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, its agencies and instrumentalities, subdivisions, and municipalities, in order to attain the purposes of this chapter.
History —Sept. 1, 2000, No. 296, § 10.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 9 - Eugenics (§§ 201-204 — 205) › §§ 201–204 - Repealed. Act July 12, 2011, No. 125, § 1, effective July 12, 2011

History —May 15, 1937, No. 136, p. 294, § 3, eff. 90 days after May 15, 1937; Repealed. Act.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 9 - Eugenics (§§ 201-204 — 205) › § 202 - License to teach [Repealed]

History —May 15, 1937, No. 136, p. 294, § 4, eff. 90 days after May 15, 1937; Repealed. Act.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 9 - Eugenics (§§ 201-204 — 205) › § 203 - Persons who may receive instruction [Repealed]

History —May 15, 1937, No. 136, p. 294, § 5, eff. 90 days after May 15, 1937; Repealed. Act.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 9 - Eugenics (§§ 201-204 — 205) › § 204 - Cancellation of license [Repealed]

History —May 15, 1937, No. 136, p. 294, § 6, eff. 90 days after May 15, 1937; Repealed. Act.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 10 - Abortions (§§ 231 — 235) › § 231 - Report of abortion

Sixty (60) days after the approval of this act it shall be compulsory to report to the Department of Health, as hereinafter set forth, any case of abortion that may take place in Puerto Rico.
History —June 19, 1964, No. 65, p. 172, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 10 - Abortions (§§ 231 — 235) › § 232 - Persons required to report; forms

Any physician who practices medicine and surgery or any branch of those professions and who may have knowledge of any case of abortion, complete or incomplete, for therapeutic or any other purpose, on any patient treated or visited by him, shall report such case to the Department of Health within the five (5) days following the date on which it came to his knowledge.
Any supervisor or person in charge of a private or public hospital, sanatorium, clinic or polyclinic, rest home, health home, convalescent home, or other like institution, who may have knowledge of any abortion, complete or incomplete, for actual or apparent therapeutic purposes or other purposes, of any person secluded in said institutions shall report the case to the Department of Health within the term of ten (10) days from the date it came to his knowledge.
Said report shall be made on a blank form specially provided by the Department of Health and shall contain such information as the Department of Health may deem necessary.
History —June 19, 1964, No. 65, p. 172, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 10 - Abortions (§§ 231 — 235) › § 233 - Confidential nature

The reports made under the provisions of this chapter shall be of a confidential nature and shall not be disclosed to the public; Provided, however, That they may be furnished to the judges, prosecutors, policemen or peace officers, for proper action.
History —June 19, 1964, No. 65, p. 172, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 10 - Abortions (§§ 231 — 235) › § 234 - Rules and regulations

The Secretary of Health shall prescribe such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary for the enforcement of this chapter.
History —June 19, 1964, No. 65, p. 172, § 4.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 10 - Abortions (§§ 231 — 235) › § 235 - Enforcement; suspension or annulment of licenses

Any person who shall violate the provisions of this chapter or of the regulations prescribed thereunder, or who shall refuse to comply with the requirements of this chapter or its regulations, or who shall fail to send the required reports within the time fixed by § 232 of this title, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction punished by a maximum fine of two hundred and fifty dollars ($250) or by confinement in jail for a maximum term of one (1) year, or by both penalties, in the discretion of the court.
The Board of Medical Examiners shall, upon request of the Secretary of Health, have power to withdraw and annul, temporarily or definitively, the license of any physician who shall have failed to comply with the provisions of this chapter or the regulations prescribed thereunder. The procedure for the temporary suspension or annulment of licenses shall be in accordance with the provisions of Act No. 22 of April 22, 1931.
The Secretary of Health may cancel the license and order the closing of any public or private hospital, sanatorium, clinic or polyclinic, rest home, health home, convalescent home, or other like institution wherein the provisions of this chapter or of the regulations prescribed thereunder are not complied with.
History —June 19, 1964, No. 65, p. 172, § 5.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 11 - X-ray Laboratories (§§ 241 — 245) › § 241 - License to operate

No person, firm, corporation or institution shall maintain, operate or direct an X-ray laboratory, or shall advertise its operation for obtaining radiographs or for the examination and treatment of such persons as may require this diagnostic or therapeutic means, without holding a license granted by the Department of Health.
History —May 1, 1928, No. 62, p. 480, § 1, eff. 90 days after May 1, 1928.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 11 - X-ray Laboratories (§§ 241 — 245) › § 242 - Application for license

Every applicant for a license to maintain or operate an X-ray laboratory shall make application in a blank form which shall be furnished by the Department of Health, and on said blank there shall be printed all the requirements necessary for the installation and operation of said X-ray laboratory, guaranteeing the public due protection against danger from the electric current used.
History —May 1, 1928, No. 62, p. 480, § 2, eff. 90 days after May 1, 1928.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 11 - X-ray Laboratories (§§ 241 — 245) › § 243 - Persons who may operate laboratory

No person other than a physician or dentist legally qualified to practice medicine or dental surgery in Puerto Rico shall have charge of the direction of an X-ray laboratory for the purposes stated in § 241 of this title; Provided, That nothing contained in this chapter shall affect those persons who for five years prior to its approval have been continuously in charge of an X-ray laboratory, and said persons may, within three months from the taking effect of this act, apply to the Secretary of Health for their corresponding licenses in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
History —May 1, 1928, No. 62, p. 480, § 3, eff. 90 days after May 1, 1928.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 11 - X-ray Laboratories (§§ 241 — 245) › § 244 - Cancellation of license

Licenses issued by the Department of Health in accordance herewith may be canceled when the requirements stated on the license are not fulfilled.
History —May 1, 1928, No. 62, p. 480, § 4, eff. 90 days after May 1, 1928.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 11 - X-ray Laboratories (§§ 241 — 245) › § 245 - Ultrasound machines; prohibition

As regards [to] the laboratories, physician’s offices and hospitals that conduct ultrasound procedures (sonograms), it is hereby provided that no natural or juridical person may acquire or operate an ultrasound machine (sonograph) unless they hold a license issued by the Department of Health of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico for conducting said procedure solely and exclusively for medical purposes.
Any natural or juridical person that possesses or operates an ultrasound machine without the certifications required shall be charged with a misdemeanor and sanctioned with a fine of not less than one thousand dollars ($1,000) and not greater than five thousand dollars ($5,000) and the immediate confiscation of the machine.
Any natural or juridical person that sells, distributes or trades an ultrasound machine to an unauthorized person, shall be charged with a felony and sanctioned with a fine of not less that ten thousand dollars ($10,000) and not greater than fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000), and/or the cancellation of any license issued by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to conduct business in Puerto Rico.
History —May 1, 1928, No. 62, p. 480, added as § 5 on Apr. 24, 2007, No. 37, § 1; June 18, 2007, No. 48, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 12 - Ionizing Radiation (§§ 251 — 251u) › § 251a - Commission for Control of Radiation—Creation

The Commission for the Control of Radiation is hereby created.
The Commission shall consist of the Secretary of Health and the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources, or their representatives, and a third person conversant with the matter, to be appointed by the Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and who shall not belong in any of the departments above mentioned.
The Commission shall hold at least four regular meetings a year and such special meetings as it may deem necessary.
History —June 24, 1965, No. 79, p. 182, § 2; Mar. 27, 1967, No. 7, p. 155, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 12 - Ionizing Radiation (§§ 251 — 251u) › § 251b - Commission for Control of Radiation—Powers

The Commission shall have power to:
(a) Promulgate, amend and repeal rules and regulations for the control of sources of ionizing radiation.
(b) Provide, and it shall provide, through rules or regulations, everything concerning the granting of general or specific licenses in relation with by-product material, source material and special nuclear material, or devices or equipment using such materials. Such rules or regulations shall contain provisions on the causes and procedure for amending, suspending or revoking such licenses.
(c) Require, through rules or regulations, the registration of or the licensing for other sources of ionizing radiation.
(d) Exempt certain sources of ionizing radiation, or certain uses, or certain classes of persons using certain classes of sources of ionizing radiation, from the registration or the licensing requirements referred to by this section, whenever the Commission shall find that the exemption of such sources of ionizing radiation, or of such uses, or of such persons using such sources, does not constitute a significant risk to public health and safety.
(e) Recognize, through rules or regulations, state or federal licenses, subject to such requirements as the Commission may establish through such rules or regulations.
(f) Maintain, and it shall maintain, a register of all licenses granted by the Commission and of all sources of ionizing radiation registered with the Commission.
(g) Vest in the Department of Health and the Department of Labor and Human Resources the responsibility of determining compliance with or violation of the provisions of this chapter or of the rules or regulations hereunder, subject to the following conditions:
(1) The Department of Health shall be responsible for the regulatory control of sources of ionizing radiation used in the healing arts (medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, chiropractic, osteopathy, and podiatry, among others), commercial establishments, educational institutions, and/or in any place or situation in which the safety of the public health may be affected.
(2) The Department of Labor and Human Resources shall be responsible for the regulatory control of sources of ionizing radiation used in industry and industrial research or testing laboratories, or in any place or situation where the worker’s safety may be affected in accordance with Act No. 112 of May 5, 1939.
(3) Overlapping in the work of the Department of Health and the Department of Labor and Human Resources related with the control of sources of ionizing radiation shall be reduced to a minimum.
History —June 24, 1965, No. 79, p. 182, § 3; Mar. 27, 1967, No. 7, p. 155, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 12 - Ionizing Radiation (§§ 251 — 251u) › § 251c - Commission for Control of Radiation—Annual report

The Commission shall render an annual report of its work and activities to the Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
History —June 24, 1965, No. 79, p. 182, § 4, eff. July 1, 1965.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 12 - Ionizing Radiation (§§ 251 — 251u) › § 251d - Radiation Advisory Board—Creation and composition

A Radiation Advisory Board is hereby created.
The Radiation Advisory Board shall consist of five (5) members who shall be appointed by, and shall hold office at the will of, the Commission.
The members of the Board must possess scientific training and experience in radiology, nuclear medicine, atomic energy, radiation or radiation physics or related sciences, with specialization in ionizing radiation; but there shall be not more than two (2) specialists in any one field.
The Board shall hold at least four (4) regular meetings a year and such special meetings as it may deem necessary.
History —June 24, 1965, No. 79, p. 182, § 5, eff. July 1, 1965.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 12 - Ionizing Radiation (§§ 251 — 251u) › § 251e - Radiation Advisory Board—Duties

The Board shall:
(a) Review and evaluate the policies and programs of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico related to the control of ionizing radiation and make recommendations thereon to the Commission.
(b) Provide the Commission with such technical advice as it may require on matters relating to licensing and the regulation of sources of ionizing radiation.
History —June 24, 1965, No. 79, p. 182, § 6, eff. July 1, 1965.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 12 - Ionizing Radiation (§§ 251 — 251u) › § 251f - Radiation Advisory Board—Compensation and reimbursement for expenses

The members of the Radiation Advisory Board shall receive a compensation of $ 20.00 for each meeting they attend or for each day or fraction thereof they devote to affairs entrusted to them by the Commission, and shall be entitled to reimbursement for the necessary expenses actually incurred by them in the performance of their official duties hereunder.
History —June 24, 1965, No. 79, p. 182, § 7, eff. July 1, 1965.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 12 - Ionizing Radiation (§§ 251 — 251u) › § 251g - Publication of notice and public hearings

Before adopting, amending or repealing any rule or regulation, the Commission shall publish notice to that effect in two newspapers of general circulation and shall hold public hearings when so requested and to afford interested persons opportunity to submit data or views on the matter involved.
Rules and regulations approved by the Commission shall become effective thirty (30) days after approval, provided copies thereof have been filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Puerto Rico as required by §§ 1—19 of Act No. 112 of June 30, 1957, and without need of complying with the other provisions of said sections.
History —June 24, 1965, No. 79, p. 182, § 8; May 31, 1967, No. 86, p. 294.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 12 - Ionizing Radiation (§§ 251 — 251u) › § 251h - Inspection of premises; personnel authorized

The duly authorized personnel of the Department of Health and of the Department of Labor and Human Resources is hereby empowered to enter any building, house, store or premise at any time of day, to examine the conditions thereof and to report thereon, or to cause to be removed or corrected, urgently, any conditions of ionizing radiation in the manner and way prescribed by the regulations. Notwithstanding the previous authorization, the investigations or inspections of private dwellings or rooms shall not be conducted without the previous permission of the tenant of the private dwelling or room the object of inspection. If the tenant refuses to give permission for said inspection any district judge or justice of the peace may, upon receipt of a sworn statement to the effect that there is probable cause therefor, issue an order authorizing said official to enter such private dwelling or room for the purpose of conducting such investigation or inspection.
Entry and inspection in areas under federal jurisdiction shall require the authorization of the federal government or its duly authorized representatives.
History —June 24, 1965, No. 79, p. 182, § 9; Mar. 27, 1967, No. 7, p. 155, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 12 - Ionizing Radiation (§§ 251 — 251u) › § 251i - Notification to licensees

Every person who has obtained a license from the Commission, or who has registered with the Commission any source of ionizing radiation in accordance with this chapter, shall be informed by the Commission as to the agency which shall determine whether he is complying with the provisions of this chapter and of the rules and regulations hereunder.
History —June 24, 1965, p. 79, p. 182, § 10, eff. July 1, 1965.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 12 - Ionizing Radiation (§§ 251 — 251u) › § 251j - Records obligatory

(a) The Commission shall require each person who possesses or uses a source of ionizing radiation to maintain record of its receipt, storage, transfer or disposal, and any other records that the Commission may require, subject to such exemption as the Commission may by regulation provide.
(b) The Commission shall require each person who possesses or uses a source of ionizing radiation to maintain appropriate records showing the radiation exposure of all individuals for whom rules or regulations promulgated by the Commission require a continuous or periodic measurement of the individual’s radiation exposure (personnel monitoring). Copies of these records and of all those required by this section to be kept shall be submitted to the Commission on request. Every person who possesses or uses a source of ionizing radiation shall provide to every employee for whom is required a continuous or periodic measurement of the radiation exposure (personnel monitoring), a copy of the record of personal radiation exposure of the employee, at any time such employee has received an excessive exposure, at the termination of his employment when so requested by the employee.
History —June 24, 1965, No. 79, p. 182, § 11; May 31, 1967, No. 86, p. 294, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 12 - Ionizing Radiation (§§ 251 — 251u) › § 251k - Agreements with federal government

The Governor of Puerto Rico is hereby authorized, in behalf and in representation of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, to enter into such agreements with the federal government as may be necessary for discontinuance by the federal government of certain responsibilities with respect to sources of ionizing radiation and the assumption thereof by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, pursuant to the provisions of congressional Public Law No. 86-373, approved September 23, 1959.
Any license issued by the federal government prior to the effective date of any such agreement under this section shall be considered valid and shall expire on the expiration date specified in such license, or ninety (90) days after the effective date of the agreement, whichever occurs earlier.
History —June 24, 1965, No. 79, p. 182, § 12; May 31, 1967, No. 86, p. 294, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 12 - Ionizing Radiation (§§ 251 — 251u) › § 251l - Agreements on inspections

The Department of Health and the Department of Labor and Human Resources are hereby authorized, with the approval of the Governor, to enter into agreements with the federal government, states, interstate agencies, territories or possessions of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Panama Canal Zone whereby the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico may perform, in cooperation with any of them, inspections or other functions related with the control of sources of ionizing radiation.
History —June 24, 1965, No. 79, p. 182, § 13, eff. July 1, 1965.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 12 - Ionizing Radiation (§§ 251 — 251u) › § 251m - Hearings

In any proceeding under this chapter for granting, suspending, revoking or amending any license, or for determining compliance with the rules or regulations of the Commission, or for granting exceptions from said rules or regulations, the Commission shall hear, on request, any person whose interests may be affected by the proceeding, and shall consider said person a party of such proceeding.
History —June 24, 1965, No. 79, p. 182, § 14, eff. July 1, 1965.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 12 - Ionizing Radiation (§§ 251 — 251u) › § 251n - Orders and rules in case of emergency

Whenever the Commission, the Department of Health or the Department of Labor and Human Resources, or a duly authorized representative of either, determines that an emergency exists requiring immediate action for the protection of the public’s health and safety, said department or representative may issue orders, or make rules, without subjection to the requirements of publication and public hearings, and operative immediately, giving details of the existence of the emergency and the action to be taken.
Any person to whom such order or rule is addressed shall forthwith comply with it but shall, upon petition to the Commission, be granted a hearing within thirty (30) days after said petition.
The Commission shall confirm, modify or revoke such order or rules within the thirty (30) days following the hearing.
History —June 24, 1965, No. 79, p. 182, § 15; May 31, 1967, No. 86, p. 294, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 12 - Ionizing Radiation (§§ 251 — 251u) › § 251o - Review

Any finding of the Commission in any proceeding under §§ 251m and 251n of this title shall be reviewable by the Court of First Instance, through the proper petition for review filed by the aggrieved party within ten (10) days after notice of the Commission’s decision.
History —June 24, 1965, No. 79, p. 182, § 16, eff. July 1, 1965.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 12 - Ionizing Radiation (§§ 251 — 251u) › § 251p - Injunctions

Whenever in the judgment of the Department of Health or the Department of Labor and Human Resources, any person has engaged or intends to engage in any act or practice that might constitute a violation of the provisions of this chapter or of any rule regulation or order issued hereunder, the Secretary of Justice, at the request of the Commission, may petition the Court of First Instance for an order enjoining such acts or practices, or an order requiring compliance with this chapter, or the rules, regulations or orders issued hereunder. Upon proving that such person has engaged or intends to engage in such acts or practices, the court shall issue a temporary or permanent injunction or other directive enjoining said person from engaging in such acts, or any other order that the court may deem pertinent.
History —June 24, 1965, No. 79, p. 182, § 17; Mar. 27, 1967, No. 7, p. 155, § 1; May 31, 1967, No. 86, p. 294, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 12 - Ionizing Radiation (§§ 251 — 251u) › § 251q - Illegal acts

It shall be unlawful for any person to use, manufacture, produce, transport, transfer, receive, acquire, or possess any source of ionizing radiation without obtaining a license from the Commission in accordance with the provisions of this chapter for using, manufacturing, producing, transporting, transferring, receiving, acquiring or possessing such sources of ionizing radiation or unless such person has registered such source of ionizing radiation with the Commission in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
History —June 24, 1965, No. 79, p. 182, § 18, eff. July 1, 1965.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 12 - Ionizing Radiation (§§ 251 — 251u) › § 251r - Impounding in case of emergency

The Commission, the Department of Health or the Department of Labor and Human Resources shall have authority, in cases of emergency, to impound or order the impounding of sources of ionizing radiation in the possession of any person who is not equipped to comply, or who does not comply with the provisions of this chapter or of any rules or regulations hereunder, or in possession of any person who violates any provision of this chapter or of any rule or regulation hereunder.
History —June 24, 1965, No. 79, p. 182, § 19; May 31, 1967, No. 86, p. 294, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 12 - Ionizing Radiation (§§ 251 — 251u) › § 251s - Construction in connection with other powers

Nothing in this chapter or in the rules or regulations hereunder shall be construed as repealing or in any way affecting, impairing or limiting any power conferred by any other act, rule or regulation on the Secretary of Health or the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources of Puerto Rico.
History —June 24, 1965, No. 79, p. 182, § 20, eff. July 1, 1965.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 12 - Ionizing Radiation (§§ 251 — 251u) › § 251t - Penalties

Any person violating any provision of this chapter or of the rules, regulations or orders issued by the Commission, the Department of Health or the Department of Labor and Human Resources shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction punished by a fine of not less than one hundred [dollars] ($100) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by imprisonment for a term of not less than three (3) nor more than six (6) months, or both, in the discretion of the court.
History —June 24, 1965, No. 79, p. 182, § 21, eff. July 1, 1965.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 12 - Ionizing Radiation (§§ 251 — 251u) › § 251u - Expenses of the Board

The expenses of the Radiation Advisory Board shall be defrayed from the annual budget of expenses of the Department of Health.
History —June 24, 1965, No. 79, p. 182, added as § 24 on Mar. 27, 1967, No. 7, p. 155, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 13 - Physicians’ and Dentists’ Service Contracts (§§ 271-274 — 298c) › § 287 - Health service for Vieques and Culebra

The Department of Health and the Municipal Government of Vieques are hereby authorized to provide health services to the population of Vieques and Culebra as required, through the utilization of the existing health facilities in the municipality of Vieques, within a system to be determined by the Secretary of Health himself with the advice of the mayor of Vieques.
History —June 12, 1961, No. 36, p. 70, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 13 - Physicians’ and Dentists’ Service Contracts (§§ 271-274 — 298c) › § 288 - Health service for Vieques and Culebra—Regulations; agreements for services

The Department of Health is hereby authorized to establish, in consultation with the mayor of Vieques, a system whereby to afford such health services to the residents of the municipalities of Vieques and Culebra, and to prepare the necessary regulations so that, while the utilization of these facilities by low-income persons is not hindered, it will be permissible to charge, in whole or in part, for the health service thereby provided to persons who can afford to pay, or to collect from the insurers thereof.
The Secretary of Health is also hereby authorized, in consultation with the mayor of Vieques, to covenant with agencies and instrumentalities of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or of the federal government of the United States of America, and with associations, persons or private groups from Vieques or Culebra, for the rendering of these services to the persons working for these agencies, associations, or instrumentalities, etc.
History —June 12, 1961, No. 36, p. 70, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 13 - Physicians’ and Dentists’ Service Contracts (§§ 271-274 — 298c) › § 289 - Health service for Vieques and Culebra—Funds

The funds collected through this activity shall be covered into a special fund and used as the Secretary of Health may see fit for general operation and maintenance expenses of the Health Center of Vieques, as well as for the improvement of health services in that municipality.
History —June 12, 1961, No. 36, p. 70, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 13 - Physicians’ and Dentists’ Service Contracts (§§ 271-274 — 298c) › § 298 - Special Health Service Corps—Definitions

For the purpose of §§ 298—298c of this title the following terms shall have the meaning expressed hereunder, unless otherwise inferred from its context:
(a) Director. — Shall mean the Director of the Central Personnel Administration Office of Puerto Rico.
(b) Secretary. — Shall mean the Secretary of Health of Puerto Rico.
(c) Corps. — Shall mean the Special Health Service Corps created by §§ 298—298c of this title.
(d) Administration. — Shall mean the Health Facilities and Services Administration of Puerto Rico created by §§ 337—337m of this title and any Administration that is created in the future, attached to the Department of Health.
History —June 22, 1978, No. 69, p. 219, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 13 - Physicians’ and Dentists’ Service Contracts (§§ 271-274 — 298c) › § 298a - Special Health Service Corps—Creation; composition

A special unit of doctors and dentists, designated as the “Corps” and henceforth attached to the Department of Health, is hereby created for the purpose of improving the quality of health services rendered in Puerto Rico, and assuring their continuity and stability. Said Corps shall consist of public service doctors and dentists engaged in rendering permanent and full-time health services in the Department of Health or in any other Administration heretofore or hereafter created and attached to the Department of Health, and who do not receive compensation for regular services in other departments, commonwealth or federal agencies, public corporations, municipalities, public or private institutions, or the private practice of their profession.
History —June 22, 1978, No. 69, p. 219, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 13 - Physicians’ and Dentists’ Service Contracts (§§ 271-274 — 298c) › § 298b - Special Health Service Corps—Classification and remuneration system

The Director of the Central Personnel Administration Office of Puerto Rico shall establish, in coordination with the Secretary of Health, an exclusive classification and remuneration system for the members of the Corps, and shall provide a remunerative complementary salary improvement margin for them; Provided, That the annual salary shall not exceed forty thousand dollars ($40,000) in any case. Said classification and remuneration system shall be established by taking into consideration the following:
(A) The region where the doctor shall render his services.
(B) The medical branch in which the doctor is specialized.
(C) The doctor’s experience in terms of the years of professional practice.
(D) The doctor’s board examinations and continuous education courses.
(E) The evaluation of the committee appointed by the Secretary of Health for this purpose.
The Director is also empowered to approve fringe benefits for the doctors and dentists in said Corps which may be different from the fringe benefits of the public employees in general, but which shall not exceed six thousand dollars ($6,000) a year.
History —June 22, 1978, No. 69, p. 219, § 3, eff. 60 days after June 22, 1978.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 13 - Physicians’ and Dentists’ Service Contracts (§§ 271-274 — 298c) › § 298c - Special Health Service Corps—Rules and regulations

The Director, with the Secretary’s advice, shall be charged with the drawing up and adoption of regulations needed for the administration of §§ 298—298c of this title, pursuant to the general standards and public policy established by Act No. 5 of October 14, 1975.
History —June 22, 1978, No. 69, p. 219, § 4, eff. 60 days after June 22, 1978.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 18 - Protection and Security of Infants (§§ 322 — 328) › § 322 - Statement of public policy

It is hereby declared that it is the public policy of the Government of Puerto Rico to ensure the safety, physical integrity and the best emotional welfare of all children, in order for them to achieve their full and integral development. The protection and safety of infants is a compelling interest of the State, thus, it is imperative to promote all those measures and strategies addressed to preventing the commission of the crimes of kidnapping and child stealing in public hospital institutions that render medical services through specialized units such as newborn wards, obstetric areas and pediatric departments.
The Government of Puerto Rico, in its unavoidable commitment to the safety of our children, shall promote the initiatives that must be adopted by the hospital institutions to develop norms, systems and safety procedures that will prevent the kidnapping and stealing of our children. The implementation of safety measures and the use of technological systems to prevent these crimes shall be mandatory in nature for hospital institutions. Likewise, said institutions shall adopt specific procedures to guarantee with certainty and reliability, the identification of the infants that are born therein, while safeguarding the right of privacy of the children and the families.
In order to enforce this public policy in a conscientious manner, the combining of the resources, and security and protection programs and initiatives between the public and private sector shall be promoted.
History —June 18, 1999, No. 133, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 18 - Protection and Security of Infants (§§ 322 — 328) › § 323 - Definitions

The following terms and phrases shall have the meanings indicated below:
(1) Department. — Is the Department of Health of Puerto Rico.
(2) Commonwealth. — Is the Government of Puerto Rico.
(3) Hospital or hospital institutions. — Means an institution that provides services to the community, offering treatment and medical or surgical diagnoses for illnesses and/or obstetric treatment to hospitalized patients, pediatric services, newborn wards, neonatal intensive care units, including general, special, and other types of hospitals and facilities related thereto, such as: intensive care, patient intermediate and self-care units, x-ray and radiotherapy services, clinical and anatomical pathology laboratories and others; outpatient doctor’s offices, outpatient consulting departments, central services and related services facilities that operate in conjunction with hospitals, but does not include institutions that mainly provide home care or custodial care. It also includes places devoted principally to the operation of facilities to provide diagnosis, treatment or medical care for no less than twelve (12) consecutive hours, to two (2) or more individuals with no family relationship, who are suffering from an ailment, sickness, lesion or deformity; every office, physician’s office or home, where pregnant women are received to be seen or treated during an abortion, childbirth or puerperium, regardless of the number of patients or the length of stay; Provided, That the part or section of the residence where the physician has his medical office or sees patients, shall not be considered as his dwelling, even though it is considered as an integral part thereof, in terms of the physical layout of his residence. Regardless of the provisions in the above sentence, the office, house or medical office of a physician shall not be deemed as a hospital within the meaning of this chapter, when a sudden or unexpected birth or abortion occurs therein, and under such circumstances that prevent the immediate transfer of the patient to a hospital, but in such cases, the patient shall only be treated by the physician in his office, home or medical office, until the patient is transferred to the corresponding hospital, and such transfer must be made within a time span of not more than twelve (12) hours.
(4) Child stealing. — Is the crime typified in Section 160 of the Penal Code of Puerto Rico.
(5) Secretary. — Is the Secretary of Health of Puerto Rico.
(6) Kidnapping. — Is the crime typified in Sections 137 and 137A of the Penal Code of Puerto Rico.
(7) Specialized units. — Are newborn wards, neonatal intensive care units, obstetric areas, and pediatric departments.
History —June 18, 1999, No. 133, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 18 - Protection and Security of Infants (§§ 322 — 328) › § 326 - Hospital licensing; conditions and requirements

The Department of Health shall consider the safety and protection programs designed and implemented to prevent the stealing or kidnapping of newborn infants in said hospital institutions as part of the development, establishment and execution of norms for the licensing of public and private hospitals.
The Secretary may suspend, deny, or revoke the license that authorizes the operation of a hospital institution provisionally or permanently when it is deemed that the provisions of this chapter or the regulations promulgated by virtue thereof, or those of any other regulation that is applicable according to the security requirements and guidelines adopted through this legislation have been violated, and it is determined that the violation is harmful to the interests and security of newborn infants who receive medical services in hospitals.
The administrative hearings held to apply this section shall be governed by the Regulations for Health Facilities in Puerto Rico, promulgated by the Department of Health pursuant to §§ 331 et seq. of this title.
History —June 18, 1999, No. 133, § 6.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 18 - Protection and Security of Infants (§§ 322 — 328) › § 327 - Power to regulate

The Secretary of Health shall promulgate and adopt all the norms, rules and regulations needed to enforce compliance of the public policy set forth herein and the provisions contained in this legislation, within ninety (90) days from the approval of this act. The Secretary shall amend the pertinent regulations, as the case may be, to establish guidelines or norms in view of the intents and purposes pursued by this chapter.
History —June 18, 1999, No. 133, § 7.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 18 - Protection and Security of Infants (§§ 322 — 328) › § 328 - Penalties

The Secretary of Health is empowered to impose sanctions and administrative fines on any natural or juridical person, or hospital institution that knowingly violates any provision of this chapter, rules and regulations or orders issued by him. The maximum administrative fine imposed shall not exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000) for each infraction.
History —June 18, 1999, No. 133, § 8.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 19 - Health Facilities (§§ 331 — 334j) › Subchapter Preliminary - General Provisions (§§ 331 — 331a) › § 331 - Title

This chapter may be cited by the short title of Health Facilities Act.
History —June 26, 1965, No. 101, p. 250, § 1; July 20, 1979, No. 150, p. 368, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 19 - Health Facilities (§§ 331 — 334j) › Subchapter I - Survey, Construction and Modernization of Health Facilities (§§ 332 — 332n) › § 332 - Survey and construction program of hospitals and other health facilities

The Department of Health shall be the sole government agency of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico vested with authority to carry out, among others, the purposes of this chapter, as follows:
(a) To establish the necessary administrative organization to carry out the purposes of this chapter.
(b) To make inventories and statistical surveys of existing health facilities including their state of conservation and the need for modernizing them, and determine the need for construction of additional health facilities.
(c) To develop, administer and supervise state plans for the construction and modernization of profit or nonprofit private and public health facilities, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and applicable federal laws.
(d) To insure compliance with rules and regulations for the construction, operation and maintenance of facilities.
History —June 26, 1965, No. 101, p. 250, § 3; July 20, 1979, No. 150, p. 368, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 19 - Health Facilities (§§ 331 — 334j) › Subchapter I - Survey, Construction and Modernization of Health Facilities (§§ 332 — 332n) › § 332b - Administration of this chapter and applicable federal laws

For the purpose of administering this chapter and applicable federal acts, the Secretary shall be advised by the Coordinating Health Council created by § 3004 of this title.
History —June 26, 1965, No. 101, p. 250, § 5; July 20, 1979, No. 150, p. 368, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 19 - Health Facilities (§§ 331 — 334j) › Subchapter I - Survey, Construction and Modernization of Health Facilities (§§ 332 — 332n) › § 332c - Administration of appropriations

For the purpose of administering the provisions of this chapter, the Secretary may dispose of such funds as may be received from the federal or state government, or from other sources, which shall be covered into the Health Fund created by § 337j-1 of this title.
History —June 26, 1965, No. 101, p. 250, § 6; July 20, 1979, No. 150, p. 368, § 2.