P.R. Laws tit. 33, § 4671

2019-02-21
§ 4671. Principals

Considered to be principals are:

(a) Whoever participates directly in the commission of a crime.

(b) Whoever forces, provokes, abets or induces another person to commit a crime.

(c) Whoever takes advantage of a legally non-imputable person to commit a crime.

(d) Whoever cooperates before, simultaneously or after the commission of a crime, and without whose participation the crime could not have been perpetrated.

(e) Whoever takes advantage of a juridical person to commit a crime.

(f) Whoever acts in representation of another as member, director, agent or owner of a juridical person, and perpetrates the criminal act, even if the special elements that give rise to the crime do not concur upon such a person, but do concur upon the person represented or upon the juridical person provided that there is a law that classifies the crime.

History —June 18, 2004, No. 149, § 43, eff. May 1, 2005.