P.R. Laws tit. 5, § 815d
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.