P.R. Laws tit. 25, § 3012
(a) All personnel member of the Uniformed Services, as well as the civilian employees of the Corps of Engineers, the National Disaster Medical System or members of the State Guard who practice a profession or occupation in Puerto Rico that requires a license issued by the competent authority, whose professional association membership is mandatory, or that requires the filling of a periodical form or report, and is mobilized inside or outside of Puerto Rico and is activated to attend extraordinary contingencies such as: emergency disaster management; state and domestic or international national security emergency; peacekeeping and stabilization missions; humanitarian missions, or as a part of the war effort held in one or more theaters of operations, shall be exempted from the payment of professional association membership fees during the period of activation, and no penalty whatsoever shall apply for failure to pay said fees.
Likewise, no penalty whatsoever may be imposed for the late filing of reports or documents necessary to renew their licenses with the corresponding Board of Examiners or the Professional Association, provided that the reason for exemption is presented before the corresponding Board of Examiners or the Professional Association not later than sixty (60) days after their military order expires.
(b) Any member of a professional association listed in subsection (a) of this section, upon their return to Puerto Rico, or termination of the state activation period, shall be entitled to an exemption equal to one third (⅓) of the total of their next professional association membership fee.
(c) Any professional association member who is outside of Puerto Rico rendering regular services in the Active Forces in a scenario other than those listed in subsection (a) of this section, shall be exempted from the payment of one third (⅓) of the professional association membership fee in order to maintain in effect the certification to practice his/her profession in Puerto Rico.
History —Jan. 20, 2010, No. 8, §§ 3—5.