P.R. Laws tit. 23, § 807
The Secretary is hereby invested with full powers to regulate the operation of public parking areas, insofar as necessary and convenient for the protection, security, convenience, and general welfare of the users or visitors of these businesses. The powers hereby conferred are the following:
(1) To fix the rates to be charged in said public parking areas after due economic studies and surveys.
(2) To issue, suspend or revoke licenses to operators of public parking areas.
(3) To provide, through regulation to that effect, the minimum safety standards every public parking area should have for its clients, visitors, and employees.
(4) To carry out the surveys and inspections deemed necessary and convenient on his own account or through complaint filed by a user, to determine if any operator ceased to comply with the provisions of §§ 805—821 of this title or of an order or regulation issued under the powers vested herein.
(5) To see that the insurance and bonds requested from every operator by §§ 805—821 of this title are in effect at all times, pursuant to the regulation promulgated therefor.
(6) To investigate the transactions, files, and related records of any person applying for a license as parking area operator before it is granted. Every person, thus investigated, his officers, employees, agents or representatives shall present and furnish to the Secretary or to his delegate the files, records, capital, and business in his power or possession, related to the matter concerned.
(7) To require from the operators, through regulation, that they keep all those records related to the public parking business which are necessary for enforcing §§ 805—821 of this title and the regulations promulgated hereunder.
(8) To investigate and take the proper action, according to §§ 805—821 of this title and the regulations promulgated therefor, in the complaints filed by users of public parking areas.
History —June 7, 1973, No. 120, p. 482, § 3.