1004

The Secretary is hereby empowered to draft, promulgate, amend and annul regulations, orders, rules, and directives of a general or specific nature needed to achieve the purposes of this chapter, as well as to prohibit, condition and control the sale, purchase, import, transportation, storage, manufacture, use and application of pesticides that might cause noxious effects on man or the environment in Puerto Rico.\nWhenever any regulation or amendment to a regulation promulgated by the Secretary requires that persons already engaged in the regulated activities provide themselves with additional equipment or facilities, the Secretary shall grant a term of ninety days from and after the effective date of such regulation or amendment for such persons to comply with the provisions of said regulation.\nHistory —June 10, 1953, No. 49, p. 120, § 4; June 26, 1965, No. 100, p. 246, § 3; Aug. 21, 1999, No. 278, § 3.