P.R. Laws tit. 15, § 2015
(a) Once the College begins operations, those persons who aspire to have their own public performance producer license shall apply for admission to the College and be admitted prior to obtaining said license. Once admission to the College is formally requested, pursuant to the regulations to be approved, said College shall issue a membership certificate within a term not to exceed thirty (30) calendar days as of the formal request if the aspirant meets all the requirements established by OSPEP.
(b) The Public Performance Promoter Services Office (OSPEP, Spanish acronym) of the Department of the Treasury shall continue to be the body through which performance promoters and producers in Puerto Rico authenticate ticket inventories and account for their operations to the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Likewise, it shall be the body before which persons or entities aspiring to obtain a license and College membership, as well as those producers who are not established in Puerto Rico provide proof of their participation in the public performance business. OSPEP shall continue to be the entity under the authority of the Department of the Treasury, which shall issue the licenses to aspirants who, as provided by Section 13 of this Act, shall be college member as a requirement for obtaining said license.
(c) The producers who are not established in Puerto Rico shall continue to register with OSPEP; these producers shall produce their public performances on the Island by associating with a College member or by obtaining a membership in the College and the license issued by OSPEP. To such effects, any producer who is not established in Puerto Rico shall enter into contracts or agreements with a College member producer of his/her choice, in order to jointly produce the public performance in question. In the case of producers established within the United States jurisdiction, the College shall not impose terms or conditions for the execution of such contracts or agreements other than those agreed upon by the parties nor shall it have authority to veto their execution. A producer who is not established in Puerto Rico, originating from another state or territorial jurisdiction of the United States of America, who does not wish to associate with a local producer, shall obtain a license issued by OSPEP in addition to the College membership.
Likewise, every administrator of a public or private facility in which public performances are held, shall be bound to certify prior to holding the event and prior to adjudicating or contracting for the use of the facility that the producers have fully complied with the requirements of this section.
History —Sept. 16, 2005, No. 113, § 6.