2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART III - Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics (§§ 711 — 1031d) › Chapter 63 - Drugs Generally (§§ 911 — 950d) › § 947 - Barbiturates and other dangerous drugs—Offenses and penalties

(a) Any natural or artificial person who sells, gives, negotiates, exchanges, distributes or possesses dangerous drugs or barbiturates in the Commonwealth, except as expressed in §§ 933 and 946a of this title, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction be sentenced to imprisonment in jail for a term not exceeding one (1) year, or by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500), or both, in the discretion of the court.
(b) Any natural or [juridical] person who fails to label the containers in which medicines are dispensed in those cases and as required in §§ 930—949 of this title shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction be sentenced to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six (6) months, or by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100), or by both penalties, in the discretion of the court.
(c) Any person who sells penicillin or other antibiotic, or preparations containing antibiotics or mixtures of antibiotics, except in those cases and as permitted in §§ 930—949 of this title, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction be sentenced to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six (6) months, or by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500), or by both penalties, in the discretion of the court.
(d) Any natural or [juridical] person who shall fail to prepare and safekeep the inventories, registries or records of barbiturates as or within or during the term required in §§ 930—949 of this title shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction be fined not less than twenty-five dollars ($25) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500).
(e) Any person who obtains or attempts to obtain, or who prescribes or attempts to prescribe any of the dangerous drugs, barbiturates, penicillin or antibiotics referred to in §§ 930—949 of this title by using therefor a fictitious name or false address or by any sort of misrepresentation shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction be punished by imprisonment for a term not exceeding one (1) year, or by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both penalties, in the discretion of the court.
(f) Any other violation of §§ 930—949 of this title for which no classification of offense or penalty is prescribed in the preceding clauses of this section shall constitute a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, the person guilty thereof shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not exceeding ninety (90) days, or by a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars ($200), or by both penalties, in the discretion of the court.
(g) In all cases of recidivism in the same offense hereunder the natural or [juridical] person who relapses into offense after the first conviction shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two (2) years, or by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars ($2,000), or by both penalties in the discretion of the court.
History —July 13, 1960, No. 126, p. 350, § 18; Aug. 30, 1961, No. 8, p. 345, § 2.