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No agreement made by an employee or a worker to pay any portion of the premiums paid by his/her employer shall be valid; and any employer who, for such a purpose makes a deduction from the wages or salary of any employee or worker entitled to the benefits of this chapter, or who obtains from the employee or worker a receipt stating that said employee or worker received as full payment of his/her compensation a sum of money other than the one that was really paid, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be subject to a penalty of imprisonment for a term not to exceed six (6) months or to a fine not to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000). History —Apr. 18, 1935, No. 45, p. 250, § 22, renumbered as § 20 on July 1, 1996, No. 63, § 3; Sept. 16, 2004, No. 343, § 6.