P.R. Laws tit. 9, § 5018
The Secretary shall issue, along with the motor vehicle, trailer or semi-trailer permit, the corresponding license plates, in the following cases:
(a) When the motor vehicle, trailer or semi-trailer is registered.
(b) Upon renewal of the license of the motor vehicle, trailer or semi-trailer.
(c) When the use for which the motor vehicle, trailer or semi-trailer was authorized to travel is altered, if this chapter or any other law requires special identification for the new use being authorized.
(d) When in transferring the motor vehicle, trailer or semi-trailer the acquirer does not possess a license plate.
The Secretary shall contract with Employment and Training Enterprises Corporation, currently located at the Río Piedras State Penitentiary, created by virtue of §§ 1521 et seq. of Title 4, all work pertaining to the manufacturing of license plates to be issued; setting forth, also, he shall hereby set forth by regulation all matters pertaining to the design, characteristics, issuing, renewal and use of said license plates, as well as the payment of ten dollars ($10), which shall be covered into the special account of the Office of Drivers Services (DISCO, Spanish acronym). Provided, That, for Fiscal Year 2014-2015, of the funds collected in accordance with this section, the sum of seven million dollars ($7,000,000) shall be transferred to the Legal Liability Fund.
Provided, further, That for Fiscal Year 2015-2016, the sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) in account number 0490000-299-792-2001, or in any other created for the same purposes in the Department of the Treasury’s accounting system shall be transferred from this Fund to the “Special Education Student’s Therapy and Service Fund”, created by Act No. 73-2014.
History —Jan. 7, 2000, No. 22, § 2.17; June 27, 2003, No. 150, § 1; Aug. 19, 2005, No. 57, § 2; July 1, 2014, No. 78, § 7; July 2, 2015, No. 105, § 19.