P.R. Laws tit. 29, § 443
No minor under fourteen (14) years of age shall, on his own, engage or be employed by an employer in peddling, a word which means, according to law, the sale, offering for sale, solicitation, collection, or distribution of any article, product or merchandise, on the street, in any public place or from house to house; Provided, further, That no minor under sixteen (16) years of age shall engage or be employed in the delivery, sale or distribution of lottery tickets or cuadros or papeletas of hippodromes, dog racecourses (canódromos) or jai-alai centers or frontons.
Whenever a child between fourteen (14) and less than sixteen (16) years of age shall wish to engage, for his own account, in peddling (other than the delivery, sale or distribution of lottery tickets or race-track cuadros and papeletas) outside class hours, the parent or custodian of the child shall apply to the official authorized to issue employment certificates in the district where the child resides, for a special peddler’s permit authorizing said work. Such application shall set forth the specific nature of the work to be performed by the child, the hours when he is to engage in peddling, and the special conditions under which this is to be done; and said application shall be accompanied by the evidence required in subsections (b), (c) and (d) of § 437 of this title for the granting of regular employment certificates. Whenever said child is to be employed by an employer, the authorized official may issue a special peddler’s permit upon fulfillment of the same requirements as are required for a regular employment certificate; and in both cases, after it is found out upon investigation that the facts stated in the application are true and that the work will not impair the child’s health or his progress at school.
Special peddler’s permits shall authorize the employment of said minor only at such time when he has finished his daily school work, and his work shall be subject to the maximum hours stipulated in § 433 of this title for minors between fourteen (14) and eighteen (18) years of age.
The employment of minors between fourteen (14) and sixteen (16) years of age as peddlers shall be prohibited after ten o’clock in the evening and before six o’clock in the morning.
Minors between sixteen (16) and eighteen (18) years of age shall abide by the provisions governing night work, established in § 433 of this title.
History —May 12, 1942, No. 230, p. 1298, § 13; Apr. 15, 1946, No. 325, p. 870, § 2; June 29, 1954, No. 90, p. 464; June 23, 1976, No. 16, p. 723, § 1; renumbered as § 14 on Aug. 26, 2005, No. 87, § 2.