Whenever the Superintendent shall find in order the cancellation of a license for the establishment and operation of a private detectives’ school under the provisions of this chapter, he shall so notify the person concerned in writing, stating the reasons therefor. Said person may, within the twenty (20) days next following notice of the action by the Superintendent, request an administrative hearing to object to it. The petitioner shall be given at least eight (8) days’ notice of the date of the hearing, which shall be held within twenty (20) days after requested. The Superintendent shall render and notify his decision in connection with the allegations and proofs presented in the administrative hearing not later than twenty (20) days after it was held. The petitioner may request the reconsideration of the decision of the Superintendent, if adverse to him, within the twenty (20) days next following notice on him. Such petition for reconsideration shall be passed upon by the Superintendent within the twenty (20) days next following the date in which it was filed by the petitioner, and if said reconsideration is denied, the petitioner may resort to the Part of the Court of First Instance of Puerto Rico where he resides with a petition for review, within the twenty (20) days next following notice on him of the refusal of the administrative reconsideration. Copy of the petition to the Court of First Instance for a review of the administrative decision shall be served on the Superintendent, who shall remand to the court, within the term fixed by it, the record of the administrative proceeding, including the transcription of the stenographic record of the hearing, without cost to the petitioner. Every notice of administrative hearing, decision of the Superintendent, and petition for reconsideration of the decision of the Superintendent, shall be in writing. Service by the Superintendent shall be accomplished upon depositing the notice in the mail addressed to the petitioner’s last known address.
History —June 29, 1965, No. 108, p. 289, § 25, eff. July 1, 1965.