P.R. Laws tit. 23, § 6812

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§ 6812. Posting and filing of rates

(a) Every concessionaire and operator shall comply with the rates approved by the Tourism Company for any tourist ground transportation service to be offered, and shall establish and observe reasonable practices for their application.

(b) Every concessionaire and operator shall submit to the Tourism Company, in the form and manner that the latter so requires, and post and keep accessible to the public, a rate schedule including the rates and practices in force for any tourist ground transportation service to be offered and/or rendered. No concessionaire or operator shall render services related to tourist ground transportation until having submitted, posted and entered into effect the rate schedules, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and the regulations approved pursuant to it. In case said concessionaire or operator renders tourist ground transportation services within the pre-established time table and/or routes, same shall also submit the time tables applicable to the type of service to be offered.

(c) Every concessionaire and operator shall have available copies of the rate schedules for the public’s inspection, including time tables, places, way and nature that the Tourism Company had established through regulations. The Tourism Company may discretionally allow that, in addition to the rates mentioned above, simplified rate schedules be published and put at the public’s disposal. In case there is a discrepancy between the simplified rate schedule and the ones filed before the Tourism Company, the rate schedules filed and in force shall prevail. The Company may waive the requirement of filing rate schedules to concessionaires or operators when promulgated rules or orders applicable to the operations, and setting rates applicable to tourist ground transportation services.

(d) No concessionaire may modify its rates or time tables without having notified the Tourism Company, thirty (30) days in advance and the latter having issued its approval. The notification shall [be] done in the way the Tourism Company establishes through regulations.

(e) Concessionaires, who at the time of the approval of this act had published rates applicable to the services they render, shall be governed by same until after they become applicable to the provisions of this chapter.

(f) Those concessionaires operating in good faith at the time this act takes effect shall not be bound to file their initial rates before the ninety (90) day term from the effective date of this act.

History —Dec. 19, 2002, No. 282, § 39, eff. 180 days after Dec. 19, 2002.