P.R. Laws tit. 20, § 711n
The Board may deny, suspend, revoke or cancel the license or certificate of any applicant or holder with the affirmative vote of five (5) of its members, for:
(a) Incurring fraud or deceit in order to be enrolled in the Register of the Board.
(b) [Gross] negligence, incompetence, or reproachable conduct in the practice of his/her profession.
(c) Having violated the Code of Professional Ethics of the College of Engineers and Surveyors of Puerto Rico or the College of Architects and Landscape Architects of Puerto Rico, as the case may be, or for having violated the laws under which said professional institutions were created.
(d) Committing fraud or deceit in the practice of his/her profession or being convicted of a felony or a misdemeanor implying moral turpitude.
(e) Signing or stamping with his/her seal any plan, blueprint, drawing, specifications, studies, mensuration or any other instrument of professional service which was not prepared by him/her or under his/her direct supervision and responsibility, or in which the names of persons who are not duly authorized to practice these professions in Puerto Rico appear with the title of engineer, architect, landscape architect or surveyor.
(f) Helping, hiring, counseling, inciting or in any other way facilitating the practice of engineering, architecture or surveying to any person who is not authorized to practice these professions in Puerto Rico, pursuant to §§ 711—711z of this title.
(g) Making use of his/her license or certificate to practice his/her profession in Puerto Rico during the time said license or certificate is inactive, cancelled or suspended, or during the term its holder has been suspended from the practice thereof by virtue of the application of other laws.
(h) Willfully or negligently evading compliance with any law, order, code or regulation of the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or any of its instrumentalities, public corporations or municipalities that rule the design, certification, inspection and supervision of construction works.
(i) Passing him/herself off as a licensed engineer, architect, surveyor or landscape architect when only holding a certificate as engineer or architect, surveyor or landscape architect in training or associate.
(j) Having had his/her professional license or certificate revoked, suspended or cancelled in any other jurisdiction in which he/she was authorized to practice his/her profession, when the reason for the revocation, suspension or cancellation of his/her license or certificate in said jurisdiction is one of those provided in this section.
History —Aug. 12, 1988, No. 173, p. 797, § 16, renumbered as § 19 and amended on Dec. 26, 1997, No. 185, § 19; Dec. 7, 2007, No. 180, § 12, eff. Dec. 31, 2007.