P.R. Laws tit. 20, § 337
When the Board determines that the denial, suspension or revocation of a license is in order or when it determines that a histologic technician or a histotechnologist must be admonished or censured, it shall notify the person affected in writing, by receipt requested certified mail, specifying the reasons or causes for so doing. Said notice shall inform the person of his or her right to an administrative hearing, which must be held no later than fifteen (15) days following the date the notice from the Board is received.
The affected party may attend the hearing on his or her own or accompanied by an attorney and shall be entitled to examine the evidence introduced against him or her, to cross-examine witnesses and to introduce evidence in his or her favor. The Board shall evaluate the attesting and documentary evidence introduced, issue a decision within fifteen (15) days following the date on which the case was submitted and notify the affected party by certified mail no later than ten (10) days after the date on which the decision is issued. The decision of the Board shall clearly and precisely state the grounds upon which the same is based.
Should the affected party be in disagreement with the decision of the Board, it may request that the latter reconsider its decision within twenty (20) days following the date the same was notified. Said request for reconsideration must be made by receipt requested certified mail. The Board must resolve the request for reconsideration within fifteen (15) days following the date the same was received and it must likewise notify the affected party of its determination by certified mail within ten (10) days following the date on which it issued its decision in reconsideration.
Should the reconsideration be denied, or if after having been granted it was adverse, the affected party may appeal so that the Puerto Rico Circuit Court of Appeals may review the same. The appeal for review must be filed within the thirty (30) days following the date on which the Board notifies its decision in review. The Board shall be bound to submit to the court, within the term the latter sets, the file of the administrative procedure, including the transcription of the record of the hearing taken by the court stenographer, free of charge to the appellant.
History —Aug. 31, 2000, No. 258, § 18.