P.R. Laws tit. 33, § 4765

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§ 4765. Child corruption

The following shall incur a fourth degree felony:

(a) Any person who intoxicates, induces, advises, abets or helps to intoxicate a minor who has not attained eighteen (18) years of age with alcoholic beverages.

(b) The owner, businessperson, administrator, manager, director, clerk or employee of a public establishment or business who consents or tolerates the commission in said establishment of any of the acts set forth in subsection (a).

(c) The owner, administrator or person in charge of any establishment used wholly or in part as a bar or gambling place who allows a minor who has not attained eighteen (18) years of age to participate in games of chance.

(d) Any person who authorizes, abets, allows or orders a minor who has not attained eighteen (18) years of age to engage in public mendicancy, participate in games of chance, or stay in a house of prostitution or sodomy.

(e) The owner, administrator, person in charge or employee of a house of prostitution or sodomy who allows the presence of a minor who has not attained eighteen (18) years of age.

In those cases in which the establishments or locations mentioned in this section have been granted a permit or license, the cancellation or revocation of said permit or license may also be imposed.

The juridical person where such conduct is performed may also be a participant in this crime.

History —June 18, 2004, No. 149, § 137, eff. May 1, 2005.