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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 3 - Health Centers and Rural Dispensaries (§§ 71 — 80) › § 74r - Municipal health, treatment and diagnosis centers—Community Consulting Board; minutes and reports to Secretary

The Board shall send a copy of all the minutes of its meetings and a monthly report of its activities to the Secretary of Health through its Area Office and the Regional Health Office.
History —July 2, 1985, No. 52, p. 181, § 18.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 3 - Health Centers and Rural Dispensaries (§§ 71 — 80) › § 74s - Municipal health, treatment and diagnosis centers—Alternative boards

Should there be a Consulting Board or a Board of Directors, or a similar body in any of the facilities which enter into an agreement with Secretary of Health under §§ 74a—74u of this section, the same shall be considered as equivalent to the one established herein. The existing Board shall assume the duties and functions of the Consulting Board established by §§ 74a—74u of this title, which are not in conflict with the legislative and regulatory provisions under which the existing Board was established.
History —July 2, 1985, No. 52, p. 181, § 19.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 3 - Health Centers and Rural Dispensaries (§§ 71 — 80) › § 74t - Municipal health, treatment and diagnosis centers—Community Consulting Board; per diems for members

The members of the Board who are not public officials shall receive per diems of thirty dollars ($30) for each meeting they attend.
History —July 2, 1985, No. 52, p. 181, § 20.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 3 - Health Centers and Rural Dispensaries (§§ 71 — 80) › § 74u - Municipal health, treatment and diagnosis centers—Regulation by Secretary

Upon consultation with the municipal governments, the Secretary of Health shall promulgate the rules needed to govern the delegation of responsibilities and authority conferred thereto under §§ 74a—74u of this title. The regulations to be adopted by the Secretary shall include, but without being limited to, the standards, criteria, requirements and procedures which promote and expedite the rendering of quality health services in an efficient, effective, integrated and continuous manner and that assure the attainment of these objectives through the coordination of those primary health centers with the health services of secondary and tertiary-level hospitals. This rule shall be promulgated and established within one hundred and eighty (180) days counting from the date on which this act becomes effective.
History —July 2, 1985, No. 52, p. 181, § 23.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 3 - Health Centers and Rural Dispensaries (§§ 71 — 80) › §§ 75–79 - Repealed. Act Dec. 16, 2011, No. 264, § 1, eff. December 16, 2011

History —May 7, 1938, No. 142, p. 305, § 1; May 15, 1943, No. 182, p. 662, § 1; 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 3 - Health Centers and Rural Dispensaries (§§ 71 — 80) › § 76 - Rural public-health sub-units—Budget estimates [Repealed]

History —May 7, 1938, No. 142, p. 305, § 2; May 15, 1943, No. 182, p. 662, § 2; 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 3 - Health Centers and Rural Dispensaries (§§ 71 — 80) › § 77 - Rural public-health sub-units—Budgetary appropriation [Repealed]

History —May 7, 1938, No. 142, p. 305, § 3; May 12, 1943, No. 123, p. 386, § 1; 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 3 - Health Centers and Rural Dispensaries (§§ 71 — 80) › § 78 - Rural public-health sub-units—Fund created [Repealed]

History —May 7, 1938, No. 142, p. 305, § 4, eff. 90 days after May 7, 1938; 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 3 - Health Centers and Rural Dispensaries (§§ 71 — 80) › § 79 - Rural public-health sub-units—Surplus for expansion of services [Repealed]

History —May 7, 1938, No. 142, p. 305, § 5; May 15, 1943, No. 182, p. 662, § 3; 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 3 - Health Centers and Rural Dispensaries (§§ 71 — 80) › § 80 - Municipal hospital of Vieques

The Department of Health is hereby empowered to assume administrative responsibility in the operation of the Municipal Hospital of Vieques through agreement with the Municipal Government of Vieques that it is to be maintained at standards and on principles like or similar to those prevailing with relation to the hospital units of the Health Centers as such are defined by Act No. 213 of May 15, 1948, but taking into account the special geographic circumstances of Vieques and the administrative difficulties they give rise to. The Municipal Administration of Vieques is hereby authorized to enter into such agreement with the Department of Health.
History —May 17, 1955, No. 44, p. 150, § 1, eff. July 1, 1955.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 4 - Clinical Analysis Laboratories, Plasmapheresis Centers, Seropheresis Centers and Blood Banks (§§ 91 — 93d) › § 91 - License

No natural or [juridical] person may establish and operate in Puerto Rico a clinical analysis laboratory, a plasmapheresis center, a seropheresis center or a blood bank, as the same are defined in §§ 91—91i of this title, without a license issued by the Secretary of Health pursuant to the provisions of §§ 91—91i of this title and of the regulations made hereunder.
History —June 25, 1962, No. 97, p. 250, § 1; July 23, 1974, No. 132, Part 1, p. 594, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 4 - Clinical Analysis Laboratories, Plasmapheresis Centers, Seropheresis Centers and Blood Banks (§§ 91 — 93d) › § 91a - Definitions

(1) Clinical analysis laboratory. — A clinical analysis laboratory shall be any institution engaged in the performance of bacteriological, microscopic, hematologic, biochemical, serological, and histopathological tests, to aid in the diagnosis, control, prevention or treatment of human diseases.
(2) Blood bank. — A blood bank shall be any center for the collection, processing and preservation of human blood for its availability whenever necessary.
(3) Plasmapheresis center. — A plasmapheresis center shall be the establishment engaged in the process of extracting blood from a human being followed by separation of cellular elements of the plasma, and transfusion of the cellular elements to the donor. The byproducts of plasma can be used in other persons and can be given any other medical use.
(4) Seropheresis center. — A seropheresis center shall be the establishment engaged in the process of injection of blood and/or antigens with the idea of promoting and increasing the antibodies in the blood, and the extraction of blood for the separation of serum for the preparation of antibodies.
History —June 25, 1962, No. 97, p. 250, § 2; July 23, 1974, No. 132, Part 1, p. 594, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 4 - Clinical Analysis Laboratories, Plasmapheresis Centers, Seropheresis Centers and Blood Banks (§§ 91 — 93d) › § 91b - Application for license; conditions; terms

The licenses referred to in §§ 91—91i of this title are to be applied for to the Secretary of Health by the person having established and in operation, or proposing to establish and operate in the future, a clinical analysis laboratory, a plasmapheresis center, a seropheresis center or blood bank. Applications for license shall be made on the printed forms to be furnished by the Department of Health. Licenses granted under §§ 91—91i of this title shall be issued for the specific establishment and shall be the responsibility of the director and of the owner to operate it in accordance with §§ 91—91i of this title and with the regulations promulgated hereunder.
Said licenses shall be granted for periods of one (1) year; Provided, That same may be revoked, cancelled or denied at any time by the Secretary of Health, if any provision of §§ 91—91i of this title or of the regulations promulgated thereunder is violated.
History —June 25, 1962, No. 97, p. 250, § 3; July 23, 1974, No. 132, Part 1, p. 594, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 4 - Clinical Analysis Laboratories, Plasmapheresis Centers, Seropheresis Centers and Blood Banks (§§ 91 — 93d) › § 91c - Denial or cancellation; review

The owner or director of the establishment to which a license has been denied, revoked or cancelled, may request from the Secretary of Health an administrative hearing within the thirty (30) days after having been notified of the denial, revocation or cancellation. After holding an administrative hearing ratifying the denial, revocation or cancellation of the license, the decision of the Secretary of Health shall be final with regard to findings of fact, but may be reviewed by the Court of First Instance of Puerto Rico with regard to issues of law. The appeal to the Court of First Instance must be taken within thirty (30) days following the date on which the resolution of the administrative hearing was notified.
History —June 25, 1962, No. 97, p. 250, § 4; July 23, 1974, No. 132, Part 1, p. 594, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 4 - Clinical Analysis Laboratories, Plasmapheresis Centers, Seropheresis Centers and Blood Banks (§§ 91 — 93d) › § 91c-1 - Medical history of donor

Laboratories shall be required to keep a record of the diseases suffered by the donor, as well as the tests necessary to the ends of ascertaining to the extent possible if the donor has or has had any contagious disease that may affect the recipient and specifically including the test to determine the existence of the antibody for the HIV Virus (Human Immunodeficiency Virus). As part of the donor’s medical history, blood banks or other institutions legally authorized to collect blood from minors shall perform a medical evaluation to each sixteen (16) and seventeen (17) year old minor in order to certify his donor eligibility. Said certification is required each time a sixteen (16) or seventeen (17) year old minor wishes to donate blood and it is an additional requirement from the written consent from the minor’s father, mother, custodian, or legal guardian. Furthermore, they shall also be required to comply with all the rules and regulations promulgated by the Secretary of Health.
History —June 25, 1962, No. 97, p. 250, added as § 4a on July 23, 1974, No. 132, Part 1, p. 594, § 2; June 27, 1987, No. 65, p. 212; Aug. 25, 2012, No. 210, § 4.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 4 - Clinical Analysis Laboratories, Plasmapheresis Centers, Seropheresis Centers and Blood Banks (§§ 91 — 93d) › § 91c-2 - Duty to inform

(a) It shall be the duty of any person who goes to give blood at a clinical analysis laboratory, plasmapheresis center, serapheresis center or blood bank, to inform if he/she has any knowledge of having or having had any infectious disease transmitted by blood.
(b) The facility that will receive the donation shall be responsible for establishing the mechanisms whereby the donor is properly advised on the infectious diseases stated above, and shall ensure the potential donor’s right to privacy and the confidentiality of the information given.
(c) Any person who violates the provisions of this Section shall incur a misdemeanor and upon conviction, shall be punished with a fine of not less than five hundred dollars ($500). Each violation shall constitute a distinct and separate offense.
History —June 25, 1962, No. 97, p. 250, added as § 4b on Aug. 23, 1996, No. 158, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 4 - Clinical Analysis Laboratories, Plasmapheresis Centers, Seropheresis Centers and Blood Banks (§§ 91 — 93d) › § 91d - Regulations

The Secretary of Health is hereby authorized to prescribe regulations on the conditions to prevail in the maintenance and operation of the clinical analysis laboratories, the plasmapheresis centers, the seropheresis centers and the blood banks. Such regulations shall establish the requirements to be met by the personnel in charge of the clinical analysis laboratories, the plasmapheresis centers, the seropheresis centers and the blood banks, and the procedures to be followed in such laboratories, plasmapheresis centers, seropheresis centers and blood banks in the carrying out of the work, as well as records to be kept. For the approval of these regulations, the Secretary of Health shall call a public hearing to be held not later than ten (10) days after such hearing is published in two newspapers of general circulation in the Island, filed in the Department of State as provided by the Rules and Regulations Act of 1958.
History —June 25, 1962, No. 97, p. 250, § 5; July 23, 1974, No. 132, Part 1, p. 594, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 4 - Clinical Analysis Laboratories, Plasmapheresis Centers, Seropheresis Centers and Blood Banks (§§ 91 — 93d) › § 91e - Inspections and investigations

The Secretary of Health is hereby empowered to direct such inspections and investigations as he may deem necessary of the clinical analysis laboratories, plasmapheresis centers, seropheresis centers and blood banks established and operated in Puerto Rico. Prior to granting any license under §§ 91—91i of this title, the Secretary of Health shall inspect the clinical analysis laboratories, plasmapheresis centers, seropheresis centers and blood banks to be established for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not they comply with the requirements of §§ 91—91i of this title and the regulations.
History —June 25, 1962, No. 97, p. 250, § 6; July 23, 1974, No. 132, Part 1, p. 594, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 4 - Clinical Analysis Laboratories, Plasmapheresis Centers, Seropheresis Centers and Blood Banks (§§ 91 — 93d) › § 91f - Time for compliance

All clinical analysis laboratories, plasmapheresis centers, seropheresis centers and blood banks in operation when this act takes effect shall comply with the provisions hereof within the term of six months reckoning from its effective date. The Secretary of Health shall have authority to extend the provisions of §§ 91—91i of this title in these cases up to a maximum of six additional months for just cause.
History —June 25, 1962, No. 97, p. 250, § 7; July 23, 1974, No. 132, Part 1, p. 594, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 4 - Clinical Analysis Laboratories, Plasmapheresis Centers, Seropheresis Centers and Blood Banks (§§ 91 — 93d) › § 91g - Penalties

Any person establishing, running, managing or operating a clinical analysis laboratory, plasmapheresis center, seropheresis center or blood bank without the license referred to in §§ 91—91i of this title, and any person violating any provision hereof, or of the regulations, or orders made by the Secretary of Health hereunder, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100), nor more than five hundred dollars ($500); Provided, also, That the Secretary of Health is hereby empowered to impose, after holding hearings, administrative fines for violations of §§ 91—91i of this title and of the regulations or orders provided hereunder; it being understood that no administrative fines shall exceed five hundred dollars ($500).
History —June 25, 1962, No. 97, p. 250, § 8; July 23, 1974, No. 132, Part 1, p. 594, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 4 - Clinical Analysis Laboratories, Plasmapheresis Centers, Seropheresis Centers and Blood Banks (§§ 91 — 93d) › § 91h - Subpoenas; witnesses; evidence; books, papers, and documents

The Secretary of Health may, in the exercise of the duties and powers imposed and conferred upon him by §§ 91—91i of this title, issue subpoenas, and should any person so subpoenaed fail to appear, or, if upon appearing before the Secretary of Health, refuses to take oath, or to give testimony, answer any pertinent question, or present any pertinent document when so ordered, the Secretary of Health may call on the Court of First Instance to compel such appearance, testimony, or presentment of document. Said Court shall, upon just cause shown, order any person to appear before the Secretary of Health and present any documents or give testimony concerning the matter at issue. Failure to obey the court’s order shall be punishable as contempt. Any person failing or refusing to appear and testify, or disregarding any licit requirement, or refusing to present books, papers and documents when it is in his power to do so, in compliance with a subpoena or valid requirement of the Secretary of Health, 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 five hundred dollars ($500), or by imprisonment in jail for a period of not less than thirty (30) days nor more than one (1) year, or both penalties, in the discretion of the court.
History —June 25, 1962, No. 97, p. 250, § 9, eff. 30 days after June 25, 1962.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 4 - Clinical Analysis Laboratories, Plasmapheresis Centers, Seropheresis Centers and Blood Banks (§§ 91 — 93d) › § 91i - Injunctions

Without prejudice to any other legal action which might be taken, the Secretary of Health may, pursuant to applicable legal provisions, and through the Secretary of Justice, bring injunction proceedings or any other proper action authorized by law, in behalf of the Commonwealth, against any person, to prevent the establishment or operation of a clinical analysis laboratory or blood bank without the pertinent license issued pursuant to the provisions of §§ 91—91i of this title.
History —June 25, 1962, No. 97, p. 250, § 10, eff. 30 days after June 25, 1962.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 4 - Clinical Analysis Laboratories, Plasmapheresis Centers, Seropheresis Centers and Blood Banks (§§ 91 — 93d) › § 92 - Maintenance of medical equipment sold—Definitions

For the purposes of §§ 92—92d of this title, the words and phrases defined herein shall have the meanings set forth below:
(a) Person. — Natural or juridical person.
(b) Hospital. — Includes general, chronic disease, mental disease hospitals, and other types of hospitals and facilities related therewith. It also includes rehabilitation centers, asylums, nursing homes, diagnostic and treatment centers, and other medical facilities.
(c) Clinical laboratories and blood banks. — Those included within the definitions of §§ 91—91i of this title.
(d) Diagnostic and treatment equipment. — Any equipment or part thereof used by the medical and paramedical classes in Puerto Rico to diagnose illnesses and treat patients.
(e) Food processing machines. — Any machine or part thereof used in hospitals to supply food to patients, visitors and/or employees.
History —May 31, 1973, No. 70, p. 311, § 1; June 27, 1974, No. 101, Part 1, p. 338, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 4 - Clinical Analysis Laboratories, Plasmapheresis Centers, Seropheresis Centers and Blood Banks (§§ 91 — 93d) › § 92a - Maintenance of medical equipment sold—Spare parts, repairs

No person shall sell either diagnostic and/or treatment equipment for hospitals, clinical laboratories and blood banks, or food processing or handling machinery, unless he has in stock spare parts, tools, equipment, fuel or lubricants necessary for their maintenance and operation, in addition to duly trained repair or maintenance personnel. He shall also furnish operation and repair manuals.
History —May 31, 1973, No. 70, p. 311, § 2; June 27, 1974, No. 101, Part 1, p. 338, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 4 - Clinical Analysis Laboratories, Plasmapheresis Centers, Seropheresis Centers and Blood Banks (§§ 91 — 93d) › § 92b - Maintenance of medical equipment sold—Duration of obligation

The duty imposed in § 92a of this title should subsist during the service life of the equipment sold, as certified by its manufacturer.
In the case of highly technical repair or maintenance personnel not residing in Puerto Rico, their availability in Puerto Rico within a period of forty-eight (48) hours must be guaranteed.
History —May 31, 1973, No. 70, p. 311, § 3; June 27, 1974, No. 101, Part 1, p. 338, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 4 - Clinical Analysis Laboratories, Plasmapheresis Centers, Seropheresis Centers and Blood Banks (§§ 91 — 93d) › § 92c - Maintenance of medical equipment sold—Duty of resident agents, representatives or distributors

Whenever the salesman does not reside in Puerto Rico, the duty imposed in § 92a of this title shall fall upon the resident agent or the representative or distributor, as the case may be.
History —May 31, 1973, No. 70, p. 311, § 4.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 4 - Clinical Analysis Laboratories, Plasmapheresis Centers, Seropheresis Centers and Blood Banks (§§ 91 — 93d) › § 92d - Maintenance of medical equipment sold—Penalty

Any person who violates the provisions of §§ 92—92d of this title shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
History —May 31, 1973, No. 70, p. 311, § 5.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 4 - Clinical Analysis Laboratories, Plasmapheresis Centers, Seropheresis Centers and Blood Banks (§§ 91 — 93d) › §§ 93—93d - Repealed. Act Aug. 25, 2012, No. 210, § 6, eff. Aug. 25, 2012

History —May 27, 1983, No. 41, p. 70, § 1; Aug. 7, 1998, No. 192, § 2; 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 4 - Clinical Analysis Laboratories, Plasmapheresis Centers, Seropheresis Centers and Blood Banks (§§ 91 — 93d) › § 93a - Repealed. Act Aug. 25, 2012, No. 210, § 6, eff. Aug. 25, 2012

History —May 27, 1983, No. 41, p. 70, § 2; Aug. 7, 1998, No. 192, § 3; 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 4 - Clinical Analysis Laboratories, Plasmapheresis Centers, Seropheresis Centers and Blood Banks (§§ 91 — 93d) › § 93b - Repealed. Act Aug. 25, 2012, No. 210, § 6, eff. Aug. 25, 2012

History —May 27, 1983, No. 41, p. 70, § 3; Aug. 7, 1998, No. 192, § 4; 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 4 - Clinical Analysis Laboratories, Plasmapheresis Centers, Seropheresis Centers and Blood Banks (§§ 91 — 93d) › § 93c - Repealed. Act Aug. 25, 2012, No. 210, § 6, eff. Aug. 25, 2012

History —May 27, 1983, No. 41, p. 70, § 4; Aug. 7, 1998, No. 192, § 5; 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 4 - Clinical Analysis Laboratories, Plasmapheresis Centers, Seropheresis Centers and Blood Banks (§§ 91 — 93d) › § 93d - Repealed. Act Aug. 25, 2012, No. 210, § 6, eff. Aug. 25, 2012

History —May 27, 1983, No. 41, p. 70, § 5; 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 6A - Support of Medical Services (§ 131) › § 131 - Castañer Health Cooperative

There shall be contributed annually to the Castañer Health Services Cooperative, or its successor in interest, up to six dollars (6) a month for each insured person in said cooperative, but the total annual sum contributed for this reason shall never exceed one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000). The Office of the Management and Budget shall set aside the funds needed and shall make the pertinent adjustments of funds needed to implement this section, and shall consign the same in the Joint Resolution of the General Budget for each fiscal year.
History —May 29, 1970, No. 53, p. 125, §§ 1, 2; June 30, 1978, No. 86, p. 270, § 1; June 3, 1980, No. 88, p. 243; Feb. 24, 1988, No. 4, p. 20, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 7B - Immunizations for Preschool Children and Students (§§ 182 — 182l) › § 182a - Admission or enrollment—Certificate of immunization required

As of the effective date of this act, no student or preschool child may be admitted or enrolled in a school, daycare center, or social treatment center, if he is not duly immunized. The registrar or the directors of the daycare center or social treatment centers shall have the responsibility of requiring a certificate of immunization from the student or preschool child. The student, preschool child or his parents or guardians shall have the responsibility of submitting a certificate of immunization to the school, daycare center, or social treatment center in order to be accepted. This provision shall not be applicable to those minors whose admission is ordered by the Court of First Instance, Affairs of Minors.
History —Sept. 25, 1983, No. 25, p. 419, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 7B - Immunizations for Preschool Children and Students (§§ 182 — 182l) › § 182b - Admission or enrollment—Without certificate; notice to interested parties

In those cases in which the student or preschool child does not present the certificate of immunization at the beginning of the school term, the registrar, the director of the daycare center, or the director of the social treatment center shall notify the student, preschool child, or his parents or guardian in writing that the certificate of immunization has not been submitted; that without said certificate the student or preschool child will not be admitted to classes; that the student or preschool child may be immunized and receive a certificate of immunization from any doctor or professional authorized to administer vaccines or toxoids; the manner in which arrangements can be made with the authorities of the Department of Health, to be provided with these services. Lack of this notice shall not excuse the student or preschool child from presenting the certificate of immunization.
History —Sept. 25, 1983, No. 25, p. 419, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 7B - Immunizations for Preschool Children and Students (§§ 182 — 182l) › § 182c - Admission or enrollment—Provisional or emergency

Any student or preschool child may be provisionally enrolled in a school, daycare center or social treatment center, if the student or preschool child has received at least one dose of each one of the vaccines required by the Secretary of Health as established in § 182i of this title. The student or preschool child must present a written certificate from the professional that administered the dose, along with a plan for the completion of the doses required for his immunization.
The immunization record of each student or preschool child provisionally admitted to the school, daycare center, or social treatment center shall be reviewed by the registrar, daycare center director, or social treatment center director, every sixty (60) days until the student or preschool child has received the necessary dosage for his immunization.
All the doses administered subsequent to the provisional admission shall be entered in the immunization record that shall be kept by the school, daycare center and social treatment center. Said record must be periodically updated so that the immunizations received by the student or preschool child are added to it.
Those students or preschool children that have been provisionally admitted and who do not comply with the immunization requirement at the specified intervals of time shall be excluded from the school, daycare center, or social treatment center by the registrar until they receive the necessary doses for immunization.
In cases of emergency enrollment in a daycare center, social treatment center, or cases of protection of preschool children, who have not received any of the doses required by this chapter, they may be provisionally admitted. The director of the daycare center or social treatment center shall have the responsibility of assuring that within a period of not more than two weeks he shall start to receive the corresponding doses and that he complies with the other provisions of this section. This includes minors whose enrollment is ordered by the Court of First Instance, Affairs of Minors.
History —Sept. 25, 1983, No. 25, p. 419, § 4.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 7B - Immunizations for Preschool Children and Students (§§ 182 — 182l) › § 182d - Admission or enrollment—No immunization for religious or clinical reasons; epidemics

The certificate of immunization shall not be required for the admission or registration of that student or preschool child who presents a sworn statement that he or his parents belong to a religious organization whose dogmas are in conflict with the immunization. The sworn statement must indicate the name of the religion or sect and must be signed by the student, or his parents, and by the minister of the religion or sect. Exemptions for religious reasons shall be void in case of any epidemic declared by the Secretary of Health.
By the same token, a certificate of immunization shall not be required from that student or preschool child who presents a certificate signed by a doctor authorized to practice the profession in Puerto Rico, to the effect that one (1) or more of the immunizations required by the Secretary of Health could be detrimental to the health of the student. The certificate must indicate the specific reason and the possible duration of the conditions or circumstances which contraindicate the immunization.
Every student or preschool child shall be exempted from having to be immunized against those diseases he has already had. This shall be accredited by the corresponding medical certificate or sworn statement of the student, or the father, mother or guardian.
The students or preschool children who are exempted from the provisions of this chapter may be immunized during an epidemic, as determined by an authorized representative of the Department of Health.
History —Sept. 25, 1983, No. 25, p. 419, § 5.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 7B - Immunizations for Preschool Children and Students (§§ 182 — 182l) › § 182e - Non-compliance and effects—Preschoolers and students

The registrar or the director of the daycare center will exclude or not admit any student who does not present a certificate of immunization, is not subject to a temporary enrollment pursuant to the provisions of § 182c of this title, or is not exempt pursuant to the provisions of § 182d of this title. Any student or preschool child, who pretends to attend, or attends a school or daycare center without having complied with the provisions of this chapter, shall not be included in the daily attendance, nor shall he receive state assistance to study in the schools of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
In the case of mandatory enrollments in the social treatment centers, if the student does not have a certificate of immunization on the date of his mandatory enrollment, the procedure to be followed shall be according to the provision contained in the last paragraph of § 182c of this title.
History —Sept. 25, 1983, No. 25, p. 419, § 6.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 7B - Immunizations for Preschool Children and Students (§§ 182 — 182l) › § 182f - Non-compliance and effects—Registrars and directors; penalties for false information

Any registrar, daycare center director or social treatment center director who allows a student, or preschool child, to enroll in a school, daycare center or treatment center, in violation of the provisions of this chapter, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished by imprisonment that shall not exceed six (6) months or a fine that shall not exceed five hundred dollars ($500), or both penalties, at the discretion of the court. In the event it is a registrar who is responsible to the Department of Education, or a director of a daycare center or social treatment center who is responsible to the Secretary of the Family, he may also be administratively sanctioned by the Secretary of Education or by the Secretary of the Family, as the case may be.
Any father, mother or guardian of a preschool child or a student under eighteen (18) years of age, and the students under eighteen (18) years of age, and the students over eighteen (18) years of age who do not comply with the provisions of this chapter, or give false information to the registrar, the director of the daycare centers or the director of the social treatment center, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be sanctioned with a term of imprisonment that shall not exceed six (6) months or a fine that shall not exceed five hundred dollars ($500), or both penalties, at the discretion of the court.
History —Sept. 25, 1983, No. 25, p. 419, § 7.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 7B - Immunizations for Preschool Children and Students (§§ 182 — 182l) › § 182g - Record of immunizations

Every school, daycare center, or social treatment center shall keep an immunization record of every student or preschool child. The immunization record form shall be the same for all the schools, daycare centers or social treatment center, provided by the Department of Health. This immunization record shall be open to inspection by the agents authorized by the Department of Health. The immunization record of each student or preschool child shall include the name of the student, date of birth, social security number, medicaid number, if applicable, admission date, provisional admission date, if such is the case, type of vaccines or toxoids administered and the date each vaccine was administered, date and type of exemption if any. When a student or preschool child is transferred from one school to another, or from a daycare center, or social treatment center, his record of immunization shall be included with his student record, to the institution to which he has been referred.
History —Sept. 25, 1983, No. 25, p. 419, § 8.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 7B - Immunizations for Preschool Children and Students (§§ 182 — 182l) › § 182h - Reports to Department of Health

The registrar, or the director of the social treatment center, or the director of the daycare center shall file a report to the Department of Health within the next sixty (60) calendar days after the start of the school term, or the enrollment of the student or preschool child. The report shall be prepared on the forms supplied by the Department of Health and shall indicate the number of students admitted to the school, social treatment center and daycare center who have an immunization certificate; the number of students exempted as provided in § 182d of this title, and those that have been provisionally admitted as provided in § 182c of this title.
History —Sept. 25, 1983, No. 25, p. 419, § 9.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 7B - Immunizations for Preschool Children and Students (§§ 182 — 182l) › § 182i - List of diseases requiring mandatory immunization; annual publication

The Secretary of Health shall be obliged to publish annually, three months before the start of each school term, the diseases against which the students must be immunized, among others; diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, poliomyelitis, German measles, common measles, mumps and any other that the Secretary of Health might see fit to require. The required immunizations and the form and frequency of administering them shall be in accordance with recognized medical practices in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
History —Sept. 25, 1983, No. 25, p. 419, § 10.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 7B - Immunizations for Preschool Children and Students (§§ 182 — 182l) › § 182j - Information bank

An information bank must be established by each school district for each particular municipality containing the date of immunization of each student or preschool child, as described in § 182g of this title.
History —Sept. 25, 1983, No. 25, p. 419, § 11.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 7B - Immunizations for Preschool Children and Students (§§ 182 — 182l) › § 182k - Free immunization

The Secretary of Health shall have the responsibility of providing the immunization service, free of charge, as provided by this chapter.
History —Sept. 25, 1983, No. 25, p. 419, § 12.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 7B - Immunizations for Preschool Children and Students (§§ 182 — 182l) › § 182l - Regulation

The Secretary of Health, together with the Secretary of Education and the Secretary of the Family, shall prescribe the rules and regulations deemed necessary for compliance of this chapter.
History —Sept. 25, 1983, No. 25, p. 419, § 13.
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) › § 183 - Definitions

(a) Physical capacity. — Means the state of the motor, visual, auditory and chemical functions of an individual, pursuant to the recognized standards of best medical practice according to the age, sex, height and weight of the person.
(b) Mental or emotional disorder. — Means the disruption of the personal functions of a chemical, physical, biological or psycho-biosocial origin, of an acute manifestation or a chronic course, in which the sensory perception, talent or fundamental state of mind, the judgment or capability to objectively perceive reality are significantly affected; as well as the ability to satisfactorily and with a minimum of stress face the requirements of daily living, such as conviviality within the family, social behavior and work. Since disorders related to controlled substances or alcohol abuse are considered mental disorders, they are included in this definition.
(c) Psychologist. — Means the professional licensed by the Board of Examiners of Psychologists of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, as defined in §§ 3201 et seq. of Title 20, known as an “Act to Regulate the Practice of the Profession of Psychology in Puerto Rico”.
(d) Psychiatrist. — Means for the purpose of this chapter, the doctor in medicine specialized in [child] and adolescent psychiatry authorized to practice the medical profession in Puerto Rico and authorized to practice said specialty, as certified by the Board of Medical Examiners of Puerto Rico.
(e) Social worker. — Means the professional holding a master’s degree in social work from an accredited institution and evidence of association, with a license to practice issued by the Board of Examiners of Social Workers as defined in §§ 821 et seq. of Title 20.
(f) Visual health professional. — Means an independent visual health care professional engaged in the practice of ophthalmology and/or optometry and who holds a license issued by the Board of Medical Examiners, in the case of ophthalmologists, and in the case of optometrists by the Optometrists Board of Examiners of Puerto Rico.
History —Sept. 1, 2000, No. 296, § 2; Dec. 12, 2001, No. 162, § 1; Feb. 17, 2006, No. 62, § 1.
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) › § 183a - Responsibility of the Academic Director

The directors of all public and private schools, including daycare and Head Start centers, are hereby directed to require a visual evaluation performed by a visual health professional with evidence of the tests required according to the age of the child, pursuant to the standards in effect of Title XIX of the Medicaid Program, Title V of the Mothers, Children and Adolescents Program, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Association of Optometry and the American Academy of Ophthalmology.
History —Sept. 1, 2000, No. 296, § 3; Feb. 17, 2006, No. 62, § 2.
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) › § 183b - Coordinated plan

The Secretaries of Education and of Health shall establish a coordinated plan for the diagnosis of the physical and mental capacity of the students [in] the public education system, including daycare and Head Start centers in Puerto Rico at the beginning of each school year.
History —Sept. 1, 2000, No. 296, § 4.
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) › § 183c - Emotional disorder evaluation program

The emotional disorder evaluation program shall contain an evaluating panel attached to the Department of Education constituted by one psychologist, one psychiatrist and one social worker, who shall analyze the results of said evaluations and make recommendations for case management.
History —Sept. 1, 2000, No. 296, § 5.
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) › § 183d - Physical evaluation program

The students’ physical evaluation program shall include an evaluating panel attached to the Department of Education, constituted by one (1) pediatrician, one (1) occupational therapist, one (1) visual health professional and one (1) speech pathologist, for the purpose of analyzing the results of the evaluation and [making] recommendations for case management.
History —Sept. 1, 2000, No. 296, § 6; Feb. 17, 2006, No. 62, § 3.
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) › § 183e - Accessibility

The services required to comply with the provisions of this chapter shall be included in the health plan card, as well as in prepaid private insurance. The services shall be rendered to students at no cost whatsoever other than the previously established premium.
The Departments of Education and Health shall establish the mechanisms necessary so that every student has health insurance coverage, regardless of his/her financial situation. The primary physician of each child or adolescent shall have the responsibility to document the information of the required evaluations in a form prepared by the Department of Education, in collaboration with the Department of Health and the Health Insurance Administration (ASES, Spanish acronym).
History —Sept. 1, 2000, No. 296, § 7.
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) › § 183f - Report

The Secretary of Education shall submit an annual report on the achievements of the plan to the Governor of Puerto Rico, the legislative bodies, and the Secretary of Health at the end of each fiscal year.
History —Sept. 1, 2000, No. 296, § 8.