P.R. Laws tit. 3, § 186
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The Secretary of Health, medical inspectors, health officers, and assistants, shall have the power to make arrests of persons found or apprehended in the act of violating the sanitary law, or any sanitary rules or regulations promulgated thereunder, delivering them as soon as practicable to the nearest police officer, and at the same time making the necessary charges against such offenders, but nothing in this section contained shall authorize any of the officers or assistants enumerated herein to carry revolvers or other unlawful weapons while in the performance of their official duties.
History —Mar. 14, 1912, No. 81, p. 122, § 27, eff. Apr. 1, 1912.