P.R. Laws tit. 29, § 447
Every person having in his custody a minor under eighteen (18) years of age who employs, exhibits, apprentices, sells, gives away, or in any way disposes of such child with a view to employing him as an acrobat, or a gymnast, or a contortionist, or rope-dancer, or in any exhibition of like character, or as a beggar, or street singer or musician, or as a blind’s or invalid’s guide, and any person causing or procuring said minor to be so engaged, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and sentenced to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars ($250), or to imprisonment for not less than ten (10) days nor more than one year, or to both penalties, in the discretion of the court.
History —May 12, 1942, No. 230, p. 1298, § 17, renumbered as § 18 on Aug. 26, 2005, No. 87, § 2.