P.R. Laws tit. 9, § 5033
By request of the interested party, the Secretary shall issue special personalized license plates for the motor vehicles of any private citizen, subject to the following conditions:
(a) Each special personalized license plate shall bear those words, numbers or letters that the requesting party expressly wants and indicates, although the Secretary may, in his/her discretion, forbid or restrict the use of certain words, digits, numbers, letters or combinations and numbers, if he/she feels that they could cause confusion, be used for illegal purposes, or otherwise adversely affect the general welfare or sound conviviality.
(b) The Secretary shall establish and maintain such registers and records needed to maintain an adequate identification and control of the special personalized license plates, and of the vehicles that bear them, including the pertinent information in the official registration of the corresponding motor vehicle.
(c) The Secretary shall establish through regulation, the most adequate procedure for the use of said special license plate in such a way that it shall also be the official license plate, and shall provide for everything concerning the design, size, colors, location, issue, renewal, and canceling thereof, as well as any other necessary details.
(d) The use of the special personalized license plate on the public highways of Puerto Rico is authorized solely during the effective period thus granted.
(e) The Secretary may cancel or revoke the authorization to use said special license plate for noncompliance of the provisions of this section, as provided through regulations.
(f) Any person who displays a special personalized license plate without proper authorization shall incur a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be sanctioned with a fine of not less than two hundred dollars ($200) or more than five hundred dollars ($500).
History —Jan. 7, 2000, No. 22, § 2.32; June 3, 2004, No. 132, § 2, eff. 8 months after June 3, 2004.