2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY - Examining Boards and Professional Colleges (§§ 1 — 6033) › Chapter 35 - Board of Examiners of Engineers, Architects, Surveyors and Landscape Architects (§§ 681 — 711z) › § 711l - Certificates or licenses—Renewal

The certificates or licenses referred to in §§ 711h and 711i of this title shall be in effect for a term of not to more than five (5) years and it shall be the duty of the holders to renew the same within ninety (90) days prior to their expiration date following the procedure established by the Board of Examiners of Engineers, Architects and Surveyors of Puerto Rico. All cases of renewal shall require a certification from the professional college to which the professional holder of the license or certificate belongs evincing that said holder is an active member of the College concerned. The application for the renewal of a certificate or license shall include an internal revenue voucher in the amount established in § 711j of this title.
The Board of Examiners shall require that the application includes evidence that the continuing education requirements which the Board shall establish through regulations, with the prior recommendation of the Puerto Rico College of Engineers and Surveyors and the Puerto Rico College of Architects and Landscape Architects, have been met. The Board shall accept evidence of continuing education courses offered by duly accredited colleges or organizations in the United States of America. The Board shall accept those certifications that, upheld by the pertinent evidence, are issued by the corresponding professional colleges. Failure to present the evidence required shall prevent the renewal of licenses or certificates unless the Board, at its discretion, determines that the failure to present said evidence was for just cause.
To renew or reactivate a certificate as associate engineer or surveyor, it shall not be necessary to present evidence of having taken professional examinations.
The Board shall have a term of fifteen (15) days as of the date on which the applicant submits all the required documents to make a decision regarding the renewal or denial of the license or certificate, as the case may be. In the case that, having met the requirements of the Board and for causes not attributable to the applicant, the new certificate or license is not issued within the term established by law, the certificate or license held by the applicant shall remain in effect until the Board issues the new accrediting document.
The Board shall establish in its regulations the additional information and documents, if any, that shall be submitted with every application for the renewal of a certificate or a license, as well as the procedure for its consideration and issuing.
In the case of architects and architects in training, the application for the renewal of a certificate shall also include evidence that its holder has taken at least two (2) of the pending parts of the examination during the term of effectiveness of the certificate to be renewed.
History —Aug. 12, 1988, No. 173, p. 797, § 14, renumbered as § 17 and amended on Dec. 26, 1997, No. 185, § 17; Dec. 7, 2007, No. 180, § 10, eff. Dec. 31, 2007.