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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 29 - Livestock Disease Control (§§ 641 — 838d) › Subchapter VI - Fowl and Hatching Eggs (§§ 811 — 815g) › § 815d - Licenses

No person shall engage in any one or more of the following activities without obtaining the corresponding license to be issued by the Secretary for such purposes, to wit: introduce into the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico fowl and hatching eggs; operate as a representative or agent of an exporter of such products; operate hatcheries for the production of fowl for sale; production of fowl to be sold as breeders; growing pullets for sale; production of fowl chicks or hatching eggs for sale.
Said licenses shall be issued free of charge and for a term, to be fixed by the Secretary, of not less than one (1) year nor more than two (2) years, and shall be renewable upon application filed before expiration.
Said licenses shall not be issued, and if issued, may be suspended after an administrative hearing:
(a) When contagious and/or infectious diseases of fowl exist in [a] state, territory, or district of the United States, or country of origin of said fowl, that may result in the introduction or dissemination of such diseases in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
(b) When there are deficiencies in the regulatory programs for the control of diseases, or a lack of veterinary services, in the aforementioned places of origin.
(c) When the official certifications required by the Secretary, containing the information necessary to ascertain that the introduction of the fowl or hatching eggs will not result in risks of introducing into or disseminating in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico any infectious and/or contagious fowl diseases, are not provided.
(d) When the applicant fails to provide the minimum physical facilities established by regulations to adequately keep, maintain or handle the fowl and/or hatching eggs introduced into or marketed in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and for isolating them in order to prevent the dissemination of infectious and/or contagious diseases.
(e) When the fowl and/or hatching eggs introduced into or marketed in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico fail to meet the requirements established by regulations regarding health, quality, classification, weight of hatching eggs, sex of fowl chicks, age and size of fowl pullets, and strain, cross or variety of fowl and hatching eggs.
(f) When the facilities used by the license appear to be or are kept in inadequate sanitary conditions.
The suspension of the license shall be for as long as the cause motivating the same subsists. In case of recidivism, the Secretary may cancel the license issued for all the expired term, but this shall not preclude the person to whom the license was cancelled from obtaining another one after the expiration of the cancelled license, provided the cause or causes motivating the cancellation have been cured or have disappeared.
History —June 25, 1966, No. 124, p. 383, § 5; May 23, 1967, No. 49, p. 234, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 29 - Livestock Disease Control (§§ 641 — 838d) › Subchapter VI - Fowl and Hatching Eggs (§§ 811 — 815g) › § 815e - Administrative hearings; determination; review

It shall be the duty of the Secretary to hold administrative hearings giving the affected person the opportunity to be heard, before denying, suspending or cancelling any license to engage in the introduction and/or marketing of fowl or hatching eggs, and to officially notify the affected person of his respective determination in any sense.
The validity of such determination of the Secretary may be contested by any aggrieved party. Such action may be taken by filing a petition for review before the Court of First Instance of Puerto Rico within the fifteen (15) days following the official notification of the determination, it being understood as such the date on which the same was sent by registered mail to the aggrieved party or to his counsel. Such review shall be limited to issues of law, and the findings of fact of the Secretary, supported by substantial evidence in the record, shall be conclusive. The party aggrieved by the judgment rendered by the Court of First Instance may file a petition for a review thereof by the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, through certiorari, within twenty (20) days after said judgment was notified. The Supreme Court of Puerto Rico may issue the writ if it considers that the petition has merit, but in no case shall the effects of the judgment of the Court of First Instance be stayed while the review is pending.
History —June 25, 1966, No. 124, p. 383, § 6.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 29 - Livestock Disease Control (§§ 641 — 838d) › Subchapter VI - Fowl and Hatching Eggs (§§ 811 — 815g) › § 815g - Penalties

Any person who shall fail to comply with the provisions of §§ 815—815g of this title or, in whole or in part, with any standard or regulation established hereunder by the Secretary, or who shall engage in the introduction and/or marketing of fowl and hatching eggs without the corresponding license, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof, punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200) for the first offense, and in case of recidivism, by a fine of not less than two hundred dollars ($200) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500); Provided, That the fowl or hatching eggs not complying with the regulations or standards promulgated by the Secretary and which have been the object of a detention order, may be seized, in cases where there is risk or danger to the public health or of introducing or disseminating any disease of fowl. In such case such fowl or hatching eggs as are fit for use or consumption in municipal and Commonwealth institutions shall be sent thereto, whenever possible and convenient, and those not sent to institutions shall be sold at public auction, or shall be destroyed.
The Secretary is hereby empowered to impose administrative fines of up to twenty-five dollars ($25) for the first offense, and up to fifty dollars ($50) for a subsequent offense, when it is found that the provisions of §§ 815—815g of this title or the regulations or standards promulgated hereunder have not been complied with; Provided, That in cases of violations to § 815f of this title, the administrative fine imposable by the Secretary shall be of up to fifty dollars ($50) for the first offense and up to one hundred dollars ($100) subsequently. It shall be discretional with the Secretary to determine whether to proceed against the violator administratively or judicially. The imposition of these administrative fines shall preclude the imposition of judicial penalties for the same violation.
History —June 25, 1966, No. 124, p. 383, § 8; May 23, 1967, No. 49, p. 234, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 29 - Livestock Disease Control (§§ 641 — 838d) › Subchapter VII - Animal Treatment Biological Products (§§ 821 — 828) › § 821 - Definitions

Biological products. — Medicinal preparations for animals containing microorganisms and their products, including sera, vaccines, antigens and antitoxins, which are, in turn, defined as follows:
(1) Vaccines. — Any material for preventive inoculation, as a suspension of dead or inactivated bacteria, or of live bacteria of low virulence which, on introduction into the body of an animal, produces immunization against the disease caused by live bacteria through the formation of antibodies.
(2) Antigen. — Any substance which when introduced into the blood or tissues of an animal incites the formation of antibodies.
(3) Antiserum. — A serum that contains antibodies obtained from an animal that has been subjected to the action of antigen either by injection into the tissues or by infection.
History —May 25, 1961, No. 12, p. 40, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 29 - Livestock Disease Control (§§ 641 — 838d) › Subchapter VII - Animal Treatment Biological Products (§§ 821 — 828) › § 822 - Prohibitions

It is hereby prohibited to introduce, sell, or offer for sale, use, hold, store, handle or transport in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico vaccines containing living virus or naturally or artificially attenuated virus for the treatment of any animal disease, as well as any other biological product whose effective date has expired, or that is contaminated or harmful, useless or dangerous, and any biological product under handling, transportation, or storage conditions other than those recommended by its manufacturers.
Whenever the introduction of any vaccine containing living virus is necessary as being the most practical and effective means to control any disease, the existence of which may have been confirmed by the Department of Agriculture of Puerto Rico, the Secretary of Agriculture of Puerto Rico may authorize the introduction, sale, offer for sale, use, holding, storage, handling or transportation in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico of such vaccines containing living virus under the conditions that he may establish whenever he may have authentic proof that no other kind of vaccine exists, other than the living virus, for the treatment of the disease. As soon as such disease is controlled, the Secretary of Agriculture of Puerto Rico shall eliminate any introduction, sale, use, holding, storage, handling or transportation of the said vaccines containing living virus in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The Secretary of Agriculture of Puerto Rico is hereby empowered to establish by regulation which vaccines containing living virus or containing naturally or artificially attenuated virus shall not be allowed to be introduced, sold or offered for sale, used, held, stored, handled or transported in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, when they may serve to produce immunity against any animal disease not existing in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; and when they are of a high virulence of those which in his judgment may be harmful due to their high virulence for the avicultural or cattle industry of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The regulations to such effect that the Secretary of Agriculture may approve and promulgate shall have force of law, once the requirements established by §§ 2101 et seq. of Title 3 are complied with.
History —May 25, 1961, No. 12, p. 40, § 3; June 14, 1962, No. 45, § 2; May 1, 1973, No. 14, p. 51, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 29 - Livestock Disease Control (§§ 641 — 838d) › Subchapter VII - Animal Treatment Biological Products (§§ 821 — 828) › § 823 - Duty of importer to give information

It shall be the duty of every importer of biological products, whenever he is about to receive any shipment of such products, to give all pertinent information to the Secretary of Agriculture of Puerto Rico, or to his representative, at the moment of receipt or prior thereto, through the speediest means possible.
History —May 25, 1961, No. 12, p. 40, § 4.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 29 - Livestock Disease Control (§§ 641 — 838d) › Subchapter VII - Animal Treatment Biological Products (§§ 821 — 828) › § 824 - Period of withholding; examination

Every biological product introduced into the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico shall be automatically withheld in the possession of the importer for a term which shall not exceed thirty (30) days. He may not dispose of said product in any manner whatsoever and it shall be his duty to keep it in his possession until thirty (30) days shall have elapsed or until he shall have received authorization, in writing, from the Secretary of Agriculture of Puerto Rico or his representative to the effect that such product has already been examined. Should said official, or his representative, deem it necessary, he may have each pack of any biological product examined in the pathological veterinary laboratory of the Department of Agriculture of Puerto Rico or in any other adequate laboratory, and if, as a result of such examination the biological product were found in any of the conditions specified in § 822 of this title, or where, without the need for an examination, such condition could be determined, the biological product shall be returned to its point of origin under the supervision of the Secretary of Agriculture of Puerto Rico, or shall be seized and destroyed by said official or his representative, without any compensation whatsoever, at the option of the importer and at his expense. The finding to such effect, informing the importer of such alternatives, as well as the term provided in §§ 821—828 of this title to appeal therefrom, shall be notified to said importer by the Secretary of Agriculture of Puerto Rico or his representative, through a writing signed by him and bearing the official seal of the Department of Agriculture of Puerto Rico.
History —May 25, 1961, No. 12, p. 40, § 5.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 29 - Livestock Disease Control (§§ 641 — 838d) › Subchapter VII - Animal Treatment Biological Products (§§ 821 — 828) › § 825 - Examination of biological products; disposition

The Secretary of Agriculture of Puerto Rico, or his representative, may cause to be examined in the pathological veterinary laboratory of the Department of Agriculture of Puerto Rico, or in any other adequate laboratory, any biological product sold or offered for sale, held, stored, handled, or transported in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and it shall be the duty of any natural or artificial person performing any such activity with regard to a biological product, to allow such examination. If, as a result thereof, the biological product were found in any of the conditions specified in § 822 of this title, or where, without the need for an examination, such condition could be established, the Secretary of Agriculture of Puerto Rico, or his representative shall notify the pertinent determination to the owner of the biological product or to the person holding, storing, handling or transporting same, through a writing stating that the biological product must be destroyed under the supervision of said official or his representative, as well as the term provided in §§ 821—828 of this title to appeal from such determination. The said writing shall be signed by said official or his representative and shall bear the official seal of the Department of Agriculture of Puerto Rico. On and after such notification, the biological product shall be placed, were it not already placed, under the custody of its owner or the person storing it, and it shall be automatically withheld in the possession of any of them, unless the owner shall choose to destroy the same under the supervision of the Secretary of Agriculture of Puerto Rico or his representative. If within the term of fifteen (15) days, counting from the receipt date of such determination, the owner of the biological product or the person affected by such determination does not institute the proceedings referred to in § 826 of this title, the biological product shall be destroyed by the Secretary of Agriculture of Puerto Rico or his representative without any compensation whatsoever.
History —May 25, 1961, No. 12, p. 40, § 6.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 29 - Livestock Disease Control (§§ 641 — 838d) › Subchapter VII - Animal Treatment Biological Products (§§ 821 — 828) › § 826 - Determinations of Secretary; appeal

Any importer, owner, or person affected by any determination made by the Secretary of Agriculture or his representative pursuant to § 824 or 825 of this title, who is not in agreement therewith, may appeal from such determination within the fifteen (15) days next following the date on which he received written notice thereof, and in such case the return or destruction of the biological product shall remain pending the final and conclusive resolution of the appeal. The remedy shall be sought through complaint to be filed against the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in the pertinent part of the Court of First Instance of Puerto Rico, without the giving of bond, and notice thereof shall be served on the Secretary of Justice of Puerto Rico, who shall submit his plea within the term prescribed for any ordinary action. The hearing shall be held without subjection to docket, and against the judgment pronounced no action shall issue other than a certiorari before the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, limited to issues of law.
History —May 25, 1961, No. 12, p. 40, § 7.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 29 - Livestock Disease Control (§§ 641 — 838d) › Subchapter VII - Animal Treatment Biological Products (§§ 821 — 828) › § 827 - Duty of veterinarian to report

It shall be the duty of every veterinarian practicing in Puerto Rico to inform the Department of Agriculture of Puerto Rico of the existence of any biological product he may find in any of the conditions referred to in § 822 of this title, or whose reaction proves it so to be.
History —May 25, 1961, No. 12, p. 40, § 8.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 29 - Livestock Disease Control (§§ 641 — 838d) › Subchapter VII - Animal Treatment Biological Products (§§ 821 — 828) › § 828 - Penalties

Any natural or juridical person violating any of the provisions of §§ 821—828 of this title shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not less than fifty [dollars] ($50) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200), or by imprisonment in jail for a period of not less than one (1) month nor more than three (3) months, or both, in the discretion of the court; it being understood, that in case of recidivism such natural or [juridical] person shall be punished by a fine of not less than two hundred [dollars] ($200) nor more than two thousand dollars ($2,000), or by imprisonment in jail for not less than two (2) months nor more than one (1) year, or both, in the discretion of the court.
History —May 25, 1961, No. 12, p. 40, § 9.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 29 - Livestock Disease Control (§§ 641 — 838d) › Subchapter VIII - Hog Cholera (§§ 831 — 836) › § 831 - Definition

For the purposes of §§ 831—836 of this title, “hog cholera virus” shall mean the unattenuated virus inoculated into swine in order to render them immune to the disease known as hog cholera.
History —June 12, 1961, No. 41, p. 76, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 29 - Livestock Disease Control (§§ 641 — 838d) › Subchapter VIII - Hog Cholera (§§ 831 — 836) › § 832 - Prohibitions

It shall be illegal for any natural or juridical person in Puerto Rico to possess, use, hold, sell or offer for sale, permute, exchange, cede, or otherwise dispose of hog cholera virus.
History —June 12, 1961, No. 41, p. 76, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 29 - Livestock Disease Control (§§ 641 — 838d) › Subchapter VIII - Hog Cholera (§§ 831 — 836) › § 833 - Quarantine provisions

Each and every place where there is one or more hogs and where hog cholera exists or is diagnosed in any hog by a veterinarian of the Commonwealth or federal Government is hereby declared under quarantine for a period of at least forty (40) days. No hog shall be removed from such a place for any purpose whatsoever during a period of at least forty (40) days following the date on which the last case of hog cholera was detected. Swine dying from hog cholera must be cremated at once. It shall be unlawful for any person to remove any hog from the place under quarantine in violation of the provisions of this section, and it shall also be unlawful to remove or dispose of any swine dying from hog cholera in a manner other than that prescribed in this section.
History —June 12, 1961, No. 41, p. 76, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 29 - Livestock Disease Control (§§ 641 — 838d) › Subchapter VIII - Hog Cholera (§§ 831 — 836) › § 834 - Duty of veterinarian to report

Every veterinarian authorized to practice in Puerto Rico shall be bound to report in writing or by telephone to the Secretary of Agriculture of Puerto Rico any hog cholera case he may know of.
History —June 12, 1961, No. 41, p. 76, § 4.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 29 - Livestock Disease Control (§§ 641 — 838d) › Subchapter VIII - Hog Cholera (§§ 831 — 836) › § 835 - Regulations

The Secretary of Agriculture of Puerto Rico shall be in charge of executing and enforcing the provisions of §§ 831—836 of this title, and to this end he is hereby authorized and empowered to promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary for carrying out the intent and evident purpose of §§ 831—836 of this title. Such regulations shall have the force of law, provided the provisions of §§ 2101 et seq. of Title 3.
History —June 12, 1961, No. 41, p. 76, § 5.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 29 - Livestock Disease Control (§§ 641 — 838d) › Subchapter VIII - Hog Cholera (§§ 831 — 836) › § 836 - Penalties

Any person violating any provision of §§ 831—836 of this title or of any rule or regulation promulgated hereunder shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200), or by imprisonment in jail for a term of not less than one (1) month nor more than three (3) months, or both, in the discretion of the court.
History —June 12, 1961, No. 41, p. 76, § 6.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 29 - Livestock Disease Control (§§ 641 — 838d) › Subchapter IX - Eradication of Hog Cholera (§§ 838 — 838d) › § 838 - Agreements with U.S. Secretary of Agriculture

The Secretary of Agriculture of Puerto Rico is hereby authorized to enter into agreements with the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States or his representative, to carry out a campaign for the eradication of hog cholera in Puerto Rico.
History —May 31, 1967, J.R. No. 32, p. 481, § 1, eff. July 1, 1967.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 29 - Livestock Disease Control (§§ 641 — 838d) › Subchapter IX - Eradication of Hog Cholera (§§ 838 — 838d) › § 838a - Contracts with hog owners

To assure the success of said campaign the Secretary of Agriculture of Puerto Rico is hereby empowered to enter into contracts with hog owners in Puerto Rico in connection with the payment of indemnizations for hogs which may be suffering from, or which may have been or are exposed to hog cholera after same have been killed.
History —May 31, 1967, J.R. No. 32, p. 481, § 2, eff. July 1, 1967.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 29 - Livestock Disease Control (§§ 641 — 838d) › Subchapter IX - Eradication of Hog Cholera (§§ 838 — 838d) › § 838b - Fund; creation; appropriation

The sum of $20,000 is hereby appropriated from unencumbered funds in the Commonwealth Treasury to the Secretary of Agriculture of Puerto Rico, which sum shall be covered by the Secretary of the Treasury of Puerto Rico into a trust fund known as the “Indemnization Fund for the Eradication of Hog Cholera”, and which shall be used to make the indemnization payments provided in § 838a of this title and the expenses incurred in transportation, isolation and maintenance of the hogs to be killed and the disposal thereof.
History —May 31, 1967, J.R. No. 32, p. 481, § 3, eff. July 1, 1967.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 29 - Livestock Disease Control (§§ 641 — 838d) › Subchapter IX - Eradication of Hog Cholera (§§ 838 — 838d) › § 838c - Regulations

The Secretary of Agriculture of Puerto Rico is hereby authorized to promulgate the rules and regulations as may be necessary for the eradication of hog cholera in Puerto Rico including everything relative and incidental to the evaluation, isolation, slaughtering, disposal and manner of payment to the owners and to the persons who may have liens on the hogs killed which may be suffering from or which have been or are exposed to hog cholera. Said rules and regulations shall govern with force of law in accordance with the provisions of §§ 2101 et seq. of Title 3.
The regulation promulgated by the said officer shall be governed by the following standards:
The isolation, slaughtering and disposal of hogs to be killed shall be made in a manner as to avoid the risk of disseminating or propagating the hog cholera.
The evaluation shall be made on the basis of the real value of the hog in the market for the purposes of the sale of its meat or for the purposes of fattening or reproduction, at the time and on the place in which the same may be made by adopting the basis that may result to be the greatest, except that only sows shall be eligible for evaluation on the basis of their value for reproduction purposes and in such case their value shall not exceed thrice their value for the purposes of the sale of the meat or for fattening purposes.
The indemnization to be paid shall be determined on the basis of the amount of the evaluation. The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico shall pay the difference between the amount paid by the Government of the United States and the amount of the animal evaluation, except that when taking into consideration a specimen suffering from hog cholera that shall eventually be a total loss to his owner, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico shall in no case pay for each indemnization more than fifty dollars ($50).
Whenever the owner declares in the blank form, which for such purpose shall be filled out, in order to receive the indemnization, that there exists any lien against the animal, the holder of the lien shall also sign the petition for indemnization and the payment of same shall be made in the manner that the owner and the holders of liens may specify.
History —May 31, 1967, J.R. No. 32, p. 481, § 4; June 6, 1973, J.R. No. 65, p. 619.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 29 - Livestock Disease Control (§§ 641 — 838d) › Subchapter IX - Eradication of Hog Cholera (§§ 838 — 838d) › § 838d - Penalties

Any person who may hinder or obstruct the contracting parties from performing their respective actions under the contracts to which § 838a of this title refers or who violates the provisions of the rules and regulations promulgated by the Secretary of Agriculture of Puerto Rico thereunder or who makes a false statement to obtain an indemnization which does not correspond in whole or in part to him, shall incur a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200) or imprisonment in jail for a term of not more than thirty (30) days, or both penalties, in the discretion of the court.
History —May 31, 1967, J.R. No. 32, p. 481, § 5, eff. July 1, 1967.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 31 - Cattle and Livestock Production (§§ 841 — 854e) › § 841 - Artificial insemination service

The Secretary of Agriculture of Puerto Rico is hereby authorized to establish, direct, and develop in the Commonwealth a service of artificial insemination for the improvement of cattle.
History —Sept. 21, 1949, No. 21, p. 38, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 31 - Cattle and Livestock Production (§§ 841 — 854e) › § 842 - Artificial insemination service—Methods adopted

For the effectuation of the purposes of § 841 of this title, the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby empowered to adopt and to adapt to the general media of Puerto Rico any of the methods which exist or which may exist with relation to artificial insemination.
History —Sept. 21, 1949, No. 21, p. 38, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 31 - Cattle and Livestock Production (§§ 841 — 854e) › § 843 - Artificial insemination service—Regulations

The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby likewise empowered to prescribe such regulations as may be necessary for the accomplishment of the principal purpose of §§ 841—845 of this title.
History —Sept. 21, 1949, No. 21, p. 38, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 31 - Cattle and Livestock Production (§§ 841 — 854e) › § 844 - Artificial insemination service—Arrangements with other authorities

The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to make with the authorities of the United States Department of Agriculture or with any other governmental or private institutions, should he believe it expedient to the best interest of cattle raising in Puerto Rico, such pertinent arrangements as may result in a benefit to any or all of the aspects of the systematic campaign for the improvement of cattle.
History —Sept. 21, 1949, No. 21, p. 38, § 4.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 31 - Cattle and Livestock Production (§§ 841 — 854e) › § 845 - Artificial insemination service—Annual appropriations

On and after the Fiscal Year 1950-51, the Legislature of Puerto Rico shall appropriate in the general budget of expenses of the Government of Puerto Rico the necessary funds to carry out the purposes of §§ 841—845 of this title.
History —Sept. 21, 1949, No. 21, p. 38, § 6.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 31 - Cattle and Livestock Production (§§ 841 — 854e) › § 846 - Regulation of domestic animal semen—Definitions

For the purposes of §§ 846—853 of this title, the word “semen” shall be understood to mean the opaque fluid, whose color varies from white to cream, ejaculated by the male animal at the moment of copulation, consisting of a seminal fluid, in which the spermatic cells are suspended.
The word “veterinary”, as used in §§ 846—853 of this title, shall refer to the veterinary-physicians authorized by law to practice veterinary medicine in this Commonwealth.
The words “fertilization technician”, as used in §§ 846—853 of this title, shall refer to the persons duly qualified by the Office of Personnel and authorized to practice such technique by the Secretary of Agriculture of Puerto Rico.
History —Mar. 27, 1951, No. 38, p. 94, § 1, eff. 90 days after Mar. 27, 1951.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 31 - Cattle and Livestock Production (§§ 841 — 854e) › § 847 - Regulation of domestic animal semen—Registration of dealers

Every natural or artificial person who imports, exports, or deals in semen, whether or not a seller of semen in Puerto Rico, shall register his name or commercial firm in the Department of Agriculture of Puerto Rico.
History —Mar. 27, 1951, No. 38, p. 94, § 2, eff. 90 days after Mar. 27, 1951.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 31 - Cattle and Livestock Production (§§ 841 — 854e) › § 848 - Regulation of domestic animal semen—Licenses

Every natural or artificial person who imports, exports, or deals in semen, whether or not a seller of semen in Puerto Rico, shall obtain a license from the Department of Agriculture of Puerto Rico; Provided, That such license shall not be necessary for the use of semen by any natural or artificial person on his own domestic animals.
History —Mar. 27, 1951, No. 38, p. 94, § 3, eff. 90 days after Mar. 27, 1951.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 31 - Cattle and Livestock Production (§§ 841 — 854e) › § 849 - Regulation of domestic animal semen—Requirements for sires

The importation, exportation, sale or gratuitous cession of semen produced by sires which do not meet the required conditions of type, conformation, performance, fertility, and which do not have a health certificate issued by the Secretary of Agriculture of Puerto Rico, is hereby prohibited.
History —Mar. 27, 1951, No. 38, p. 94, § 4, eff. 90 days after Mar. 27, 1951.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 31 - Cattle and Livestock Production (§§ 841 — 854e) › § 850 - Regulation of domestic animal semen—Inspection of samples

Every natural or juridical person who imports, exports, or deals in semen, whether or not a seller of semen in Puerto Rico, shall send samples of the semen to be used in artificial fertilization to the Department of Agriculture, to be examined by the veterinaries, fertilization technicians, or any other agents designated by the Secretary of Agriculture of Puerto Rico.
History —Mar. 27, 1951, No. 38, p. 94, § 5, eff. 90 days after Mar. 27, 1951.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 31 - Cattle and Livestock Production (§§ 841 — 854e) › § 851 - Regulation of domestic animal semen—Inspection of production centers and books

Any official of the Department of Agriculture, authorized by the Secretary of Agriculture of Puerto Rico, shall have free access to the semen productions centers, semen deposits, and to the record books containing the performance of the sires and the entries and deliveries of semen.
History —Mar. 27, 1951, No. 38, p. 94, § 6, eff. 90 days after Mar. 27, 1951.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 31 - Cattle and Livestock Production (§§ 841 — 854e) › § 852 - Regulation of domestic animal semen—Regulations

The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to prescribe rules and regulations for the enforcement of the provisions of §§ 846—853 of this title.
History —Mar. 27, 1951, No. 38, p. 94, § 7, eff. 90 days after Mar. 27, 1951.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 31 - Cattle and Livestock Production (§§ 841 — 854e) › § 853 - Regulation of domestic animal semen—Penalties

Every natural or juridical person violating any of the provisions of §§ 846—853 of this title, or any rule or regulation promulgated hereunder, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200), or by imprisonment in jail for a term not exceeding thirty (30) days, or by both penalties, in the discretion of the court.
History —Mar. 27, 1951, No. 38, p. 94, § 8, eff. 90 days after Mar. 27, 1951.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 31 - Cattle and Livestock Production (§§ 841 — 854e) › § 854 - Incentives—Appropriations

The sum of four million five hundred thirty-five thousand dollars ($4,535,000) is hereby appropriated from unencumbered funds in the Commonwealth Treasury to the Secretary of Agriculture for the following purposes:
(a) For payment of incentives to farmers for the carrying out of the following activities: (1) Plantings, improvement and conservation of pasture or any other foraging plant and construction of cattle facilities, it being understood as such, those used for cattle, horses, swine, goats, sheep and other domestic quadrupeds useful to man $2,300,000 (2) Transportation subsidy, for introducing beef cattle into Puerto Rico, as well as for the fattening and for the breeding of heifers for the production of milk 360,000 (3) Raising of calves 100,000 (b) For incentives through contribution of capital, loans and other measures for the following purposes: (1) Establishment of facilities for the manufacturing of animal feed 500,000 (2) Establishment of facilities for the production of cattle and poultry products 600,000 (c) For raising replacement heifers for the production of milk 200,000 (d) To provide protection to domestic producers of cattle and poultry products against fluctuations in the supplies and prices of said products affecting the stability of domestic enterprise 400,000 (e) To provide a service for the sale of molasses to livestock farmers 75,000
The Secretary of Agriculture may, upon the approval of the Governor or the officer he may designate, out of the various items herein appropriated, use the amounts as may be necessary to defray the administrative expenses incurred. The personnel appointed chargeable to the funds herein appropriated shall be included in the noncompetitive service.
History —Dec. 9, 1966, J.R. No. 6, p. 79, § 1; June 21, 1968, J.R. No. 84, p. 724; May 25, 1972, J.R. No. 23, p. 272, eff. July 1, 1972.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 31 - Cattle and Livestock Production (§§ 841 — 854e) › § 854a - Incentives—Other funds; obligations

The funds appropriated to the Agricultural Services Administration by subsections (g) and (h) of § 1 of Joint Resolution No. 13 of May 20, 1966, may be used in whole or in part to supplement the items appropriated by subsection (b) of § 854 of this title. Likewise and in addition to the appropriation provided in subsection (b)(1) of said § 854, the Agricultural Services Administration is hereby authorized to incur obligations up to the sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) to be used for the same purpose set forth in the said subsection (b)(1). The sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) is hereby appropriated from unencumbered funds in the Commonwealth treasury to the Agricultural Services Administration, to be effective July 1, 1968, to pay obligations contracted under the authorization granted by this section.
History —Dec. 9, 1966, J.R. No. 6, p. 79, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 31 - Cattle and Livestock Production (§§ 841 — 854e) › § 854b - Incentives—Transfer of items

The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized, upon the approval of the Governor or of the officer in whom he may delegate, to make transfers, among the different items appropriated by §§ 854—854e of this title, when the use of the sum to be transferred may be unnecessary and unjustified in accordance with the principles of a sound administration or impossible for just cause, for the purposes for which appropriated.
History —Dec. 9, 1966, J.R. No. 6, p. 79, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 31 - Cattle and Livestock Production (§§ 841 — 854e) › § 854d - Incentives—Faculties

The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby vested with such faculties, rights and powers as may be necessary to carry out, on his own or through employees, agents or authorized representatives, the purposes of §§ 854—854e of this title, including without it being construed as a limitation, the following purposes:
(a) To receive as a gift from any natural or [juridical] person or from any private or public institution of Puerto Rico or from any country, properties and services to be used or invested in accordance with the purposes of §§ 854—854e of this title.
(b) To enter, with any natural or [juridical] person or any private or public institution of Puerto Rico or with any country, into such contracts, covenants or agreements that the Secretary of Agriculture may deem necessary and advisable to carry out the purposes of §§ 854—854e of this title.
(c) To acquire all kinds of real estates, properties and equipment that may be necessary to implement §§ 854—854e of this title.
(d) To render by himself or to contract the rendering of services provided by §§ 854—854e of this title.
(e) To transfer funds and resources, upon the previous authorization of the Governor or the officer whom he may delegate, to other agencies or instrumentalities of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to carry out specific phases or activities provided by §§ 854—854e of this title.
(f) To enter upon the lands or sites of the persons or entities which may benefit from any of the provisions of §§ 854—854e of this title for the purposes of verifying that the provisions and standards established in §§ 854—854e of this title and in the regulations that may be promulgated hereunder by the Secretary of Agriculture are or have been complied with.
History —Dec. 9, 1966, J.R. No. 6, p. 79, § 5.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 31 - Cattle and Livestock Production (§§ 841 — 854e) › § 854e - Incentives—Annual report

There shall be annually rendered to the Legislature a report of the investments and of the funds appropriated in §§ 854—854e of this title as well as of the works or tasks performed with said funds.
History —Dec. 9, 1966, J.R. No. 6, p. 79, § 6.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 32 - Cattle Theft Prevention Act (§§ 861 — 867) › § 861 - Definitions

For the purposes of this chapter the following words and phrases shall have the meaning established below:
(1) Farmer. — Any natural or juridical person engaged in raising, purchasing and selling cattle for the production of meat, milk and other products and spin-offs.
(2) Cattle. — Means any group of domestic animals, especially of a single species, such as pigs, bulls, heifers, oxen, cows, calves, goats, sheep, lambs, etc., used to produce meat, milk, and other products and spin-offs.
(3) Authorized vehicle. — Any means, motorized or not, used for transporting, moving or transferring cattle such as trucks, pickup trucks, trailers, tow trucks, freight cars, wagons, vans, flatcars, rolling cages, etc., including any device, fixture, accessory, extension or attachment that allows for the easy and/or feasible transportation on said vehicles which are duly authorized by the Department of Agriculture pursuant to the regulations promulgated for such a purpose by the Secretary of Agriculture.
(4) Unauthorized vehicle. — Any means, motorized or not, used for transporting, moving or transferring cattle, as defined in this chapter, which is not duly authorized by the Department of Agriculture, pursuant to the regulations promulgated for such a purpose by the Secretary of Agriculture.
(5) Department of Agriculture. — The Department of Agriculture of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, created by virtue of §§ 351 et seq. of Title 3, known as the “Department of Agriculture Act”.
(6) Secretary of Agriculture. — Official charged with the direction, administration and general supervision of the Department of Agriculture.
(7) Inspector. — Official of the Department of Agriculture with the authority and power to investigate, oversee, and ensure compliance with the laws and the public policy inherent to agriculture in Puerto Rico, as well as the regulations promulgated by the Secretary of Agriculture.
History —Sept. 29, 2004, No. 517, § 3, eff. 120 days after Sept. 29, 2004.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 32 - Cattle Theft Prevention Act (§§ 861 — 867) › § 862 - Period for the movement of cattle

A period for the movement of cattle is hereby established within which farmers, their employees or any person authorized thereby shall take any steps inherent to the transfer and transportation of cattle for the purpose of corralling, feeding, pasturing, milking, mating, or providing veterinary treatment or of any other kind to said cattle as required by the Secretary of Agriculture and for exhibiting, inventorying and disposing of dead animals or animals ready for consumption (carcasses or canals), for cremation, sale, deposit, lease or any other legal steps inherent and pertinent to the type of cattle in question.
History —Sept. 29, 2004, No. 517, § 3[bis], eff. 120 days after Sept. 29, 2004.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 32 - Cattle Theft Prevention Act (§§ 861 — 867) › § 863 - Hourly schedule

The period for the movement of cattle as defined in § 862 of this title shall comprise the lapse of time within a natural day in which all steps listed in said section are to be taken. For such a purpose the Secretary of Agriculture shall establish through regulations the hourly schedule within which the period for the movement of cattle is comprised, as well as the exempting mechanisms for authorizing the transportation of cattle on special hourly schedules, taking into consideration all factors and circumstances inherent to the nature of each type of cattle, to the experience of the agency and to the realities, practices and uses and customs inherent to that agricultural sector.
History —Sept. 29, 2004, No. 517, § 4, eff. 120 days after Sept. 29, 2004.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 32 - Cattle Theft Prevention Act (§§ 861 — 867) › § 864 - Presumption of illegal possession and transportation

The controvertible presumption is hereby established that any natural or juridical person who is caught transporting cattle in any type of vehicle, whether authorized or not (as said term is defined in § 861 of this title and according to the requirements for its certification to be promulgated through regulations by the Secretary of Agriculture) or on foot or by other means of transportation, outside of the hourly schedule within the period allowed for the movement of cattle as established by the Secretary through regulations, is in illegal possession and custody of said cattle. Said presumption is likewise established for those cases in which, within said hourly schedule comprising the period for the movement of cattle, said cattle is transported in unauthorized or uncertified vehicles pursuant to the regulatory provisions promulgated for such a purpose by the Secretary of Agriculture.
The Secretary of Agriculture shall establish through regulations:
(a) The means and manner by which the cattle is to be identified;
(b) the formalities that allow establishing and justifying proprietary ownership of the cattle;
(c) the formalities that allow the owners to authorize employees and/or third parties to transport their cattle so that they may be able to establish and justify legitimate ownership of said cattle;
(d) the requirements for certifying the vehicles authorized for transporting cattle, and
(e) the administrative penalties for noncompliance with said regulations.
All of the preceding for the purpose of being able to adequately implement the provisions of this chapter.
History —Sept. 29, 2004, No. 517, § 5, eff. 120 days after Sept. 29, 2004.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 32 - Cattle Theft Prevention Act (§§ 861 — 867) › § 866 - Coordination with the Department of Agriculture

The Puerto Rico Police, the Municipal Police or the Inspectors of the Department of Agriculture, as soon as they have conducted an intervention pursuant to the provisions of § 865 of this title, shall coordinate as soon as possible with the Department of Agriculture and all other pertinent agencies the procedure for having the facilities and personnel assigned that are necessary to handle and guard the cattle seized so that it does not suffer any harm during the investigative process; Provided, That the expenses incurred for such a purpose shall be imposed as costs at the time sentence is pronounced against the person(s) convicted or fined for violating the provisions of this chapter. The Secretary of Agriculture shall establish through regulations the procedures for handling, transporting, caring and guarding the cattle seized pursuant to the pertinent provisions of this chapter.
History —Sept. 29, 2004, No. 517, § 7, eff. 120 days after Sept. 29, 2004.