2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIFTEEN - Sports and Parks (§§ 1 — 2020) › Subtitle 3 - Public Spectacles (§§ 2001 — 2020) › Chapter 202 - College of Public Performance Producers (§§ 2011 — 2020) › § 2016 - Fees

(a) The annual fees of the College shall be fixed by majority vote at a Constituting Assembly, but never shall it be fixed by a number of college members of less than ten percent (10%) of the total number of producers holding a license to work in Puerto Rico and who are College members pursuant to this chapter. Said fees may vary from time to time if it is so stipulated by a majority of two-thirds (2 / 3) of the College members present at a General Assembly called to such effects. The minimum quorum for an Assembly to change the fee shall be established by regulations, but it shall never be less than one-fourth (1 / 4) of the total number of active College members.
(b) Every College member who ceases the active and remunerated practice of producing public performances to engage in other activities, to retire from practicing the profession, or to leave Puerto Rico, may remain a College member as provided by this chapter or may, on the contrary, cancel his/her College membership through a sworn statement to such effects submitted to the Board of Directors. The College member who chooses this option shall not be bound to pay the fees during the period of his/her voluntary inactivity, nor shall be entitled to the College membership benefits, or to receiving compensation for practicing the profession in Puerto Rico. The College member may not return to active and remunerated practice of the profession in Puerto Rico until he/she reactivates his/her license and pays the required fees.
(c) If any College member fails to pay the annual fees on the final date fixed for the payment thereof by regulations, his/her college membership and the license issued by OSPEP to practice the public performance producer profession in Puerto Rico shall be suspended, provided that such failure to pay was due to clear negligence and marked indifference to the payment requirements by the corresponding officers. The College shall establish the procedure for the suspension of the College membership through regulations, as provided by Section 13 of this Act to the extent this function is entrusted by OSPEP, and the procedure for the suspension of the license shall be established by OSPEP. The final decision of both may be judicially reviewed pursuant to §§ 2101 et seq. of Title 3, known as the “Uniform Administrative Procedures Act of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico”. During the length of the license suspension period, the individual may not practice the profession of public performance producer, even if he/she is a qualified College member in all other aspects. Provided, that the College member shall not accrue additional debts during the length of his/her period of suspension or the time he/she has not practiced the profession in Puerto Rico. Provided further, that temporary suspensions and permanent revocations that are final and binding and which are decreed by the College or by the Public Performance Promoter Services Office (OSPEP) against any producer who violates the Code of Ethics established through regulations, may entail an admonition as well as the suspension of the producer as College member for the time the suspension or revocation decreed by the College lasts.
History —Sept. 16, 2005, No. 113, § 7.