P.R. Laws tit. 24, § 2310
(a) Public document and inspections. —
(1) The reports, statements, registrations or any other document rendered by virtue of the provisions of this chapter shall become public documents; but except as hereinafter provided they shall be available for inspection only by rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Health.
(2) When a report, statement, registration or a document of any kind is open to inspection by any person there shall be issued, upon request, a certified duplicate of same, subject to the rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Health. Said Secretary may prescribe reasonable fees for furnishing such duplicate.
(b) Inspection by legislative committees—
(1) Committee on Health and Welfare and special committees— The Secretary of Health and any officer or employee of the Department of Health, upon request of the Committee on Health and Welfare of the House of Representatives, of the Committee on Health and Welfare of the Senate, or a special committee of the Senate or of the House especially authorized to investigate the documents above-mentioned by resolution of the Senate or of the House, or a joint committee so authorized by a concurrent resolution, shall furnish to such committee convened in executive session any information of any nature contained or expressed in such documents.
(2) Any one of the committees referred to above, either acting directly as a committee or through the inspectors or agents that it may designate or appoint, shall be empowered to inspect any or all documents at any time and in any manner as it may determine.
(3) Any information so obtained by the Committee may be submitted to the Senate or to the House or to the Senate and the House, as the case may be.
(c) Nondisclosure of its contents. — No officer or employee of the Department of Health shall disclose or shall make known under any circumstances, except in accordance with this chapter, the information contained in the reports, statements, registrations or other documents inspected by, or furnished to the Secretary of Health, nor shall he permit the examination or inspection of same by persons not lawfully authorized. Every officer or employee who violates this provision shall be guilty of a felony, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by the penalty provided in § 2409 of this title.
History —June 23, 1971, No. 4, p. 526, § 310, eff. 180 days after June 23, 1971.