P.R. Laws tit. 23, § 1154
As of the effective date of this act, owning or maintaining vending machines that are not duly registered in the Vending Machine Electronic Registry is hereby prohibited.
The Executive Director of the Permit Management Office may impose on business owners that operate these machines administrative fines of not less than five hundred dollars ($500) nor more than five thousand dollars ($5,000) per violation, as well as initiate proceedings in any agency relating to the suspension or revocation of other licenses or permits that the owner of or the business where the vending machine is located may hold. The volume of business of the natural or juridical person that owns the vending machine or of the business where vending machine is located as well as the nature of the violation shall be taken into account at the time of imposing fines. In the case of recurrent patterns of violations, the Executive Director of the Permit Management Office may impose fines up to twenty thousand dollars ($20,000).
A ninety (90)-day moratorium is hereby granted as of the effective date of the Registry created in this chapter, so that the owners of vending machines and/or the owners of the business where these machines are located may take the necessary steps to register and obtain the appropriate electronic registration sticker without being subject to any fine whatsoever. In the case of the placement of new vending machines, the owners thereof shall have thirty (30) days from the placement or start of operations of the vending machines to register the same and obtain the electronic registration sticker provided in this chapter.
History —Dec. 16, 2014, No. 217, § 5.