P.R. Laws tit. 5, § 1005c
The Department of Agriculture is hereby authorized to require the notification, and establish requirements for overseeing or monitoring and notification of the permit for the application of pesticides in Puerto Rico under a federal permit for the experimental use of pesticides, as well as to administer and enforce the plan for issuing permits for the experimental uses of pesticides adopted by virtue of the provisions of this chapter and of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act. To adopt and put said plan into effect, the Secretary is hereby empowered to:
(1) Issue permits for experimental uses of pesticides for the purpose of gathering data and information necessary to register said pesticides under the provisions of this chapter.
(2) Refuse to issue permits for experimental uses of pesticides when it be determined that the applying of said pesticides, under the terms and conditions proposed in the application, may cause adverse effects in the environment.
(3) Prescribe the terms and conditions, as well as the period of effectiveness, of a permit for experimental use that may be issued under this chapter.
(4) Revoke or cancel any permit issued for experimental use of pesticides at any time it is determined that the terms and conditions thereof are being violated or that its terms and conditions are inadequate to avoid adverse effects in the environment.
History —June 10, 1953, No. 49, p. 120, added as § 5-C on Oct. 30, 1975, No. 16, p. 804, § 6; Aug. 21, 1999, No. 278, § 7.