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The Tourism Company shall be empowered to impose administrative sanctions and fines for any violation against the provisions of this chapter or the regulations approved pursuant to it, committed by any enterprise, concessionaire, or operator engaged in providing tourist ground transportation services or in selling and servicing taximeters, or by any person subject to its provisions. The Tourism Company shall establish the sanctions through regulations, in proportion to the violation.\nThe Tourism Company may, upon a violation against the provisions of this chapter and to the regulations approved pursuant to it or to any order issued in accordance with it, impose administrative fines or sanctions that correspond pursuant to this chapter or regulations, or suspend or revoke the franchise, authorization, permit or license.\nRecidivism in violations against any provision of this chapter or the regulations approved pursuant to it may entail the revocation of the franchise, authorization, permit or license, as the case may be, as well as the subsequent ineligibility of the recidivist to render tourist ground transportation services or sell or service taximeters.\nThe administrative

n, permit or license, as the case may be, as well as the subsequent ineligibility of the recidivist to render tourist ground transportation services or sell or service taximeters.\nThe administrative fines shall not exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000) per violation. It shall be understood that each day the violation continues shall be considered as a separate violation up to a maximum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000).\nIf an enterprise, concessionaire, operator or any person who is subject to the provisions of this chapter shows contempt by committing or continuing actions for which an administrative fine has been imposed, or contempt by violating any order or resolution issued by the Tourism Company, the latter, at its discretion, may impose administrative fines up to a maximum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) per day. It shall be understood that each day the violation continues shall be considered as a separate violation up to a maximum fine of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000).\nHistory —Dec. 19, 2002, No. 282, § 32, eff. 180 days after Dec. 19, 2002.