P.R. Laws tit. 3, § 933m
The Administrator is hereby empowered to carry out any kind of studies and investigations on matters affecting the Administration, and for such purposes, the Administrator may request such information as may be necessary, pertinent and essential to achieve such purposes and approve such rules and regulations as may be necessary and reasonable. The Administrator may issue summons requiring the appearance of witnesses and the introduction of data or information to carry out the purposes of this chapter. He may further, personally or through his duly authorized agent, administer oaths and receive testimony, data or information. If a summons issued by the Administrator is not properly obeyed, the Administrator may appear before the Court of First Instance of Puerto Rico and request that compliance with the summons be ordered. The Court of First Instance shall give priority to the prosecution and dispatch of said petition and may enter orders compelling the appearance of witnesses or the presentation of the data or information previously required by the Administrator. The Court of First Instance shall have power to punish for contempt the noncompliance of such orders. No person shall refuse to comply with a summons of the Administrator or of his agent, or to produce the evidence required of him, or refuse to answer any question in connection with any study or investigation or because the evidence required could incriminate him or place him in jeopardy of a criminal prosecution or that he be discharged or suspended in his work, profession or occupation; but the testimony or evidence produced by said person, at the request of the Administrator or his agent, or by virtue of a judicial order, shall not be used or presented as proof against him in any criminal prosecution or in civil or administrative proceedings which could result in the removal, suspension of work, profession or occupation, after having claimed his privilege not to testify against himself, except that said person who may so testify shall not be exempted from prosecution or punishment for perjury in so testifying.
History —July 23, 1974, No. 164, Part 1, p. 752, § 28.