P.R. Laws tit. 4, § 396
All the money collected by the Clerk of the Supreme Court, the Clerk of the Appellate Circuit Court, all the Clerks of the Courts of First Instance, or those officers or employees appointed by the Administrative Director of Courts to perform collection duties, must be delivered by these to the Secretary of the Treasury on or before the third day of the month immediately following the one when collection was made, and if the Clerk of the Supreme Court, the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Appeals, all the clerks of the Courts of First Instance, or the person appointed by the Administrative Director of Courts to perform collection duties and deliver the amounts in question to the Secretary of the Treasury, as established, failed to do so, the amount that they failed to collect or to deliver shall be deducted from their salaries. The clerks of the Courts of First Instance, or the people appointed by the Administrative Director of Courts to perform collection duties, shall make and present to the Secretary of the Treasury the status of the accounts that they may request.
History —Mar. 10, 1904, p. 118, § 5; Mar. 8, 1907, p. 242; Jan. 8, 2004, No. 3, § 2, eff. 30 days after Jan. 8, 2004.