2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FIVE - Internal Security (§§ 1 — 3356) › Subtitle 1 - Generally (§§ 1 — 1973) › PART VIII - Police of Puerto Rico (§§ 1001-1029 — 1973) › Chapter 99 - Register of Metallic Materials in Stock (§§ 1101 — 1108) › § 1103 - Penalties

(a) Any person covered by this chapter who fails to keep the Register or to record therein the information required in the form and manner established in §§ 1101 and 1101a of this title shall be guilty of a fourth degree felony.
(b) Any person covered by this chapter who fails to furnish the appropriate information to the Police station in the form and manner established by this chapter shall be guilty of a fourth degree felony.
(c) Any person who records false information in the Register required by this chapter, or who furnishes false information in the report remitted to the Police station about the contents of said Register shall be guilty of a third degree felony.
(d) Any person who fails to meet the obligation of conspicuously and visibly posting and displaying the advertisements and legal warnings concerning the metals in their original state or altered or modified, shall be guilty of a fourth degree felony.
(e) Any person who unlawfully takes metals belonging to another person shall be guilty of a third degree felony in its higher half or punished by a fine of ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or both penalties at the discretion of the court. The court may impose the penalty of restitution. If the metals are public property or, if being private property, were installed or used to provide or receive electricity, telecommunications, cable TV, or drinking water services or any other public utility service, he/she shall be guilty of a second degree felony or punished by a fine of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), or both penalties, at the discretion of the court.
(f) Any natural or juridical person, owner, representative or person in charge of a workshop, store, lot or motor vehicle wholly or partially engaged in the business of selling, exchanging, depositing, collecting, storing, transporting or distributing metals for the purpose of recycling, reselling, exporting, or reusing the same in any form or state in which they appear, who owns, purchases, receives, stores, conceals, transports, retains or disposes of, through sale, exchange, barter or by any other means, metals in any form or state in which they appear, knowing that they were obtained through unlawful appropriation, theft, extortion or in any other unlawful way, shall be guilty of a third degree felony in its higher half. If the goods are public property, or if being private property, they were installed or used to provide and/or receive electricity, telecommunications, cable TV or drinking water services or any other public utility service, regardless of its value the person shall be guilty of a second degree felony or punished by a fine of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), or both penalties, at the discretion of the court. The court may impose the penalty of restitution. Provided that, in the case of first-time offenders, suspension or revocation for one (1) year of any license, permit, or authorization to conduct the business covered by this chapter shall also be imposed. In case of recidivism the license, permit, or authorization shall be revoked permanently.
(g) Any natural or juridical person, owner, representative or person in charge of a workshop, store, lot, or motor vehicle wholly or partially engaged in business of the selling, exchanging, depositing, collecting, storing, transporting, or distributing metals for the purpose of recycling, reselling, exporting, or reusing the same in any form or state in which they appear, who owns, purchases, receives, stores, conceals, transports, retains, or disposes of metals through sale, exchange, barter or by any other means, in any form or state in which they appear and who fails to comply with the provisions of Section 9 of this Act [sic], shall be guilty of a third degree felony.
(h) Any person who operates his/her business during hours other than those established by this chapter shall be guilty of a fourth degree felony.
History —June 3, 1982, No. 41, p. 85, § 3, renumbered as § 4 and amended on Aug. 8, 2007, No. 105, § 4; Mar. 8, 2012, No. 53, § 5.