P.R. Laws tit. 15, § 115b
Any peace officer who catches any person selling lottery tickets or fraction thereof, without the corresponding license, shall seize all the lottery tickets or fraction thereof in the possession of the peddler; shall report to the Director of the Bureau of the Lottery the numbers of tickets or fractions thereof seized, the number of the drawing corresponding to each one and the number of fractions of each ticket; and thereupon he shall deposit them as evidence at the secretary’s office of the corresponding part of the District Court. When any of the lottery tickets or fractions thereof, so seized should win a prize, the Director of the Bureau of the Lottery shall deposit the amount of the prize in the Secretary’s office of the Court, within the term of sixty (60) days, on and from the date on which the drawing of the prized tickets was held. After the judicial action of the criminal cause is terminated, if the person is found innocent and acquitted, the Secretary of the Court by an order of the court pronouncing judgment for such effect, shall deliver the amount of the prize corresponding to the winning lottery tickets or fractions thereof, to the persons who may result to be their owners. Whenever such person is found guilty of the crime charged, the prizes corresponding to the seized lottery tickets or fractions thereof shall remain for the benefit of, and shall be covered into the general funds of the Government of Puerto Rico, as soon as the judgment is final. In the event lottery tickets or fractions thereof should win a prize, if the person is found innocent and acquitted, the Secretary of the Treasury, after having been notified by the Secretary of the Court pronouncing judgment, with a certified copy of the acquittal in the criminal action shall reimburse to the person who may result as owner thereof the sale price to the public of the seized tickets or fractions thereof.
History —May 15, 1947, No. 465, p. 1024, added as § 5-B on June 24, 1968, No. 124, p. 286, § 5, eff. July 1, 1968.