P.R. Laws tit. 21, § 4583
As part of a medical evaluation designed to determine the general health of the candidates for employment, every municipality shall require the presentation of a certified report of the results of a test for the detection of controlled substances, prior to their employment.
Said test shall be administered by any laboratory no later than twenty-four (24) hours from the time the municipality requires the candidate in question to present it, and it shall be paid for by the municipality that requests it.
Any candidate for employment who refuses to submit to the test, or should the test be positive, as certified by the laboratory in question, shall be sufficient ground to refuse to employ the person.
Each municipality shall establish the regulations needed to execute this provision.
History —Aug. 30, 1991, No. 81, added as § 12.004 on Jan. 10, 1999, No. 30, § 4.