2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SIX - Insurance (§§ 101 — 10377) › Subtitle 1 - Insurance Generally (§§ 101 — 4513) › Chapter 21 - Automobile Clubs or Associations and Service Contracts (§§ 2101 — 2134) › Subchapter I - Automobile Clubs or Associations (§§ 2101 — 2122) › § 2102 - Services covered

The following is a definition of the nature and extension of the services which an automobile club or association covered by the provisions of this subchapter may agree to render:
(a) General services.— This classification shall include the rendering, furnishing, or acquisition of towing, emergency, life insurance, accident and other services, as long as they are offered through a policy issued by an insurance company duly authorized under the Insurance Code to transact this kind of business in Puerto Rico; bail bonds or legal assistance in cases directly related with the operation of a motor vehicle by the member; discounts, financing, sale and purchase services, road maps and complete tourist services, including the sale of tickets for land, sea or air transportation, or any one of them.
(b) Towing service.— Shall mean the removal by the automobile club or association of a motor vehicle from one place to another by a force other than that of the same vehicle.
(c) Road emergency service.— Means the adjustment, repair or replacement by an automobile club or association, of equipment, tires, or any other part of a motor vehicle to restore its own operating and moving power.
(d) Insurance service.— Means the selling or furnishing by an automobile club or association to its members of insurance policies issued in their favor by insurers authorized under the Insurance Code on their life or on their liability or loss for damages or injury to them or to a third party in accidents resulting from ownership, possession, use or operation of a motor vehicle.
(e) Legal service.— Means an act by an automobile club or association for the contracting, designation, or acquisition of the professional services of a lawyer authorized to practice his profession as such Puerto Rico, whose professional fees are to be paid by the automobile club or association which contracted or designated him to render his services as such counsel or representing a member of such club or association before a court in Puerto Rico or the United States of America as a result of his criminal or civil liability, or both, as the case may be, incurred by such member as a result of his ownership, possession, use or operation of a motor vehicle.
(f) Map service.— Shall mean the furnishing by an automobile club or association of road maps, free of charge, to its members.
(g) Tourist services.— Shall mean the furnishing by an automobile club or association of tourist information, free of charge, to its members as well as arrangements for lodging or ticket reservations; acquisition of tickets or entry permits or visas, or the necessary licenses to travel to any country in the world for its interested members or associates.
(h) Bail bond service.— This service shall mean an act by an automobile club or association to provide or procure any monetary desposit or bond required by law for the provisional freedom of a person charged with violation of a traffic law or regulation or relative to the operation of motor vehicles.
(i) Sale and purchase service.— This service shall mean any act by an automobile club or association whereby the holder of a service contract from any of these clubs or associations is somehow helped in the sale or purchase of an automobile.
(j) Discount service.— Means any act by an automobile club or association whereby service contract holders are granted special discounts or reductions in the price of gasoline, oil, repair, insurance, auto parts, accessories or servicing of motor vehicles.
(k) Financing service.— Means any act by an automobile club or association whereby a loan or any other advancement of money, with or without security, is made to a holder of a service contract from the automobile club or association.
(l) Service in case of theft.— Means any act by an automobile club or association to locate, identify and recover a motor vehicle owned or under the control of the holder of a service contract from any of these clubs or associations, stolen, or that might be stolen, or to discover the person responsible for such theft.
(m) Repair and maintenance services.— Means the act of an automobile club or association to provide repair services, replacement of equipment, spare parts, accessories and maintenance of motor vehicles.
History —Ins. Code, added as § 21.020 on June 15, 1961, No. 68, p. 133; May 10, 1976, No. 32, p. 84, § 16.