P.R. Laws tit. 20, § 546k
Lack of payment of the annual membership fee by any member by the final due date for such payment set forth in the regulation shall entail the suspension of said Association membership and of the license for the exercise of the optics profession, which shall be decreed by the Board of Examiners at the request of the Association. The procedure for such suspensions shall be set forth by means of regulation by the Board of Examiners and the final decision of the Board of Examiners may be legally reviewed by the party adversely affected, pursuant to the dispositions provided herein.
For the term of the suspension, the person may not exercise the optics profession, even if qualified to do so with respect to all other matters as a member of the Association. However, the Board of Examiners shall totally reinstate the person, once all payments due at the date of the suspension are made. Provisional or permanent suspensions that are final and firm, decreed against an optician by the Board of Examiners for the causes provided herein shall entail an automatic suspension of the optician as a member of the Association for the duration of the suspension decreed by said Board of Examiners.
History —Sept. 3, 2003, No. 245, § 13.