How to renew your vehicle registration (marbete) in Puerto Rico
What the marbete is, where to renew it, what is usually required, and how to reach the official government site.
August 12, 2026
Vehicles & CESCO
Vehicle registration, driver licenses, fines, CESCO appointments and vehicle paperwork.
61 guides
How to check traffic fines in Puerto Rico
Where to check for outstanding traffic fines, what information you need, and why they sometimes don’t show up.
August 12, 2026
How to pay traffic fines in Puerto Rico
Where and how to pay traffic fines, what you need before paying, and what to do if the payment doesn’t show up.
August 12, 2026
How to get a REAL ID license in Puerto Rico
What REAL ID is, who qualifies, the $17 it costs to validate, and why a birth certificate from another state will not do.
August 12, 2026
How to renew your driver’s license in Puerto Rico
What CESCO requires to renew: form DTOP-DIS-256, the medical certification, the $14 in stamps, and why being 30 days late costs you $24 more.
August 12, 2026
How to book a CESCO appointment
How to reserve your CESCO slot, how to know whether you really have to go in person, and how to recognize the government’s official appointment system.
August 12, 2026
How to get a learner’s permit in Puerto Rico
Requirements, documents and the $14 in stamps, from form DTOP-DIS-255: what minors need, the exam, and the restrictions while you practise.
August 12, 2026
How to replace a lost or stolen driver’s license in Puerto Rico
What to do if your license was lost or stolen: the sworn statement CESCO asks for, the stamps, and how to do it online or by appointment.
August 12, 2026
How to transfer a vehicle title in Puerto Rico
How a vehicle transfer works at CESCO, what to check before buying or selling, and where to get the official forms.
August 12, 2026
How to transfer a vehicle from an owner who has died
CESCO’s ten requirements, the declaration of heirs, and the $2,000 threshold when minors are involved.
August 13, 2026
How to remove the lien from a car you have finished paying
Cancelling a conditional sale at CESCO, and what to do if you do not have the title.
August 13, 2026
How to get your driving record at CESCO
Photo ID, $1.50 in stamps and form DTOP-DISC-661. That is all.
August 13, 2026
How to request the removable disability parking placard
The three 2×2 photos and forms DTOP-DISC-375 and DTOP-DISC-010, one of them medical.
August 26, 2026
How to replace a vehicle title in Puerto Rico
What CESCO requires to replace a Certificado de Título: the sworn statement and its exact wording, the stamps, and what changes if the vehicle has a lien.
August 12, 2026
How to replace a lost, stolen or damaged licence plate in Puerto Rico
What CESCO requires to replace a plate: the notarized sworn statement, the $13 in vouchers, and why it is not the same as replacing the marbete.
August 12, 2026
How to replace a lost, stolen or destroyed marbete in Puerto Rico
What CESCO asks if your marbete was lost, stolen or broke: the sworn statement, the $5 in stamps, and when handing in the pieces saves you from it.
August 12, 2026
Car factory warranty: what must be honored in Puerto Rico
Act 7-1979 requires the factory warranty in Puerto Rico to be no worse than the U.S. one and to be honored here, wherever you bought the vehicle.
August 23, 2026
A pothole damaged your car: how to claim from DTOP and what the ceiling is
The claim goes to DTOP’s Citizen Services Office with a notarised SC-862 form. By law, no more than $1,000.
August 16, 2026
ACAA coverages: basic, Plus and Premium
What the $35 premium you pay with your registration sticker is, what the $50 and $70 coverages add, and how to switch.
August 13, 2026
How to contest a traffic ticket in court in Puerto Rico
The Ley 22-2000 review petition: 30 days to file, 5 to notify the DTOP, $6.00 per ticket, and a hearing within 60 days.
August 14, 2026
The compulsory insurance on your marbete: what it is and how not to pay twice
What the SRO covers, your Ley 245-2014 right to choose your insurer, and the Compliance Certificate that exempts you if you already carry traditional coverage.
August 15, 2026
Filing a compulsory insurance claim after an accident
What the SRO pays and what it does not, the three deadlines, why the estimate must come from a registered shop, and why the police report does not decide fault.
August 15, 2026
Air pump: every retail gas station must have one working
Act 67-2004 requires every retail gas station to have a working air pump during the entire time it is open to the public.
August 24, 2026
Carrying people in a pickup bed or a truck: what the law says
Act 78 of 1955 bans carrying passengers, paid or free, in vehicles not structurally designed for it, with three narrow exceptions.
August 24, 2026
Approached to be sent to a certain doctor or photographer: the law that bans it
Act 60-1970 makes it illegal to enter Public Works grounds intending to convince you to use a certain doctor, photographer or vehicle.
August 24, 2026
The shop must give you an invoice with each part and labor listed separately
Act 161-1996 requires every auto repair shop to hand over a complete invoice with the exact cost of each part and the amount charged for labor.
August 24, 2026
The tire shop may not charge you an “environmental fee” for tires
Act 41-2009 bars tire sellers from charging consumers an environmental or handling fee, and requires them to accept up to four used tires from you.
August 24, 2026
Assistance pumping gas if you have a disability, at no extra charge
Act 162-2007 requires a participating gas station to help you pump gas on request, with no fee and at the self-service rate.
August 24, 2026
A new car ad must state the miles per gallon
Act 31-2007 requires every new car ad to include city and highway mileage, at a size no smaller than one quarter of the model name or price.
August 24, 2026
Your vehicle: what you must report and how long it can be held
Act 8-1987 sets the owner’s duties — theft, plates, recovery in 10 days, engine change by sworn declaration — and caps investigative holds at 30 days.
August 25, 2026
Red light: the $500 fine and suspension after three offences
Act 33-2026 clarifies that the three offences suspending a licence for three years are counted within that licence’s validity period.
August 26, 2026
Medical exemption to tint your vehicle's windows
Act 160-2026 confirms that patients with autism, sensory processing disorder and other conditions qualify for the medical tint exemption.
August 26, 2026
Traffic fines: early-payment discount, surcharges and when they expire
30% off within 15 days, 15% up to 30, surcharges after, and the Act 29-2026 rule on old fines when you renew your licence.
August 27, 2026
Yielding to an ambulance: what the law requires and the $500 fine
Act 133-2026 raised the fine from $100 to $500. Pulling right and stopping is not courtesy: Article 6.14A requires it.
August 27, 2026
Fine amnesty: 40% off Auto Expreso and marbete debts
Act 1-2026 takes 40% off the total — principal, interest and surcharges — if you pay in time. Check first whether the window is still open.
August 27, 2026
The driver’s bill of rights
Two paid hours to renew your licence, fines only from the last eighteen months, and automatic exoneration if the ticket is missing data.
September 1, 2026
The cyclist’s bill of rights
Three feet when passing, ten before retaking the lane, and eight years in prison if the breach gravely injures or kills the cyclist.
September 1, 2026
What to do after a crash
Stopping is mandatory and failing to revokes your licence. There are four hours to notify the Police if they did not investigate on scene.
September 1, 2026
Seat belts and child car seats
A hundred dollars per unbelted passenger, five hundred for the child seat, and no child under twelve rides in front if there is a back seat.
September 1, 2026
Pedestrian and driver duties
The pedestrian is not always right: they have seven duties and a hundred dollar fine. But the driver must protect them even when they are wrong.
September 1, 2026
Phones and smoking while driving
A hundred dollars for a phone without hands-free, and no exception for buses, school transport, trucks or motorcycles. Smoking with a minor is $250.
September 1, 2026
Abandoned and scrap vehicles
After twenty-four hours it is presumed abandoned. If yours was towed you have sixty days to collect it and thirty to challenge in court.
September 1, 2026
ATVs and scooters on public roads
They may not travel paved roads: a misdemeanour with a thousand-dollar fine, up to five thousand, and the vehicle shall be confiscated.
September 1, 2026
Stopping for the school bus, and more
Three hundred dollars for not stopping for school transport, two hundred for not yielding to a blind person and fifty for driving without visibility.
September 1, 2026
Speed limits
Twenty-five urban, forty-five rural, fifteen in a school zone. A hundred dollars plus ten per mile over — and driving too slowly is fined too.
September 1, 2026
Overtaking and lane use
You overtake on the left; on the right only in three cases. Driving on the shoulder costs five hundred dollars, ten times the other offences.
September 1, 2026
Right of way, turns and signals
Left yields to right, the one going down yields to the one climbing, and you signal a hundred feet before. Not stopping for an ambulance costs five hundred.
September 1, 2026
Parking, towing and the auction
The twenty-four places you may not park, the five-hundred-dollar fine for blocking a ramp, and the fifty-five plus fifty-five the tow truck charges.
September 1, 2026
Tolls and AutoExpreso: paying and fines
Using the AutoExpreso lane without a tag is a hundred dollars; other breaches, fifteen plus the toll. And nobody may charge you extra fees.
September 1, 2026
Who may not use the toll motorway
Twelve things may not travel the toll motorway, among them bicycles, unauthorised motorcycles and tyres worn below 2/32. The base fine is a hundred dollars.
September 1, 2026
What the Act charges for each transaction
Article 23.02 publishes the full table: forty-four dollars for a car, thirty-five for a motorcycle, fifteen for a transfer, three for a duplicate marbete.
September 1, 2026
The 30% discount for having no fines
Twelve months with no infractions earn a thirty per cent discount on the marbete base charge, with two DTOP certifications and one single vehicle.
September 1, 2026
Camera and AutoExpreso fines
You have a hundred and twenty hours to pay the toll before the fine, and they have ninety days to post it. If they miss it, the fine is wiped.
September 1, 2026
The Digital Marbete: how it works
It is your toll tag turned into your registration sticker. Which vehicles qualify, how to register it in CESCO Digital and when you may peel the sticker off.
September 2, 2026
Paying owed tolls in CESCO Digital
They are paid from the app, up to $5,000 per transaction and without an AutoExpreso account. Without paying them there is no marbete renewal.
September 2, 2026
How to appeal an ACAA decision
Four rungs, thirty days at each. The terms are jurisdictional: miss one and nobody can hear you.
September 3, 2026
The exams and treatment ACAA can require of you
It can order medical exams and rehabilitation, and if you refuse it pays nothing. It cannot order a toxicology test, but it can obtain a copy.
September 3, 2026
ACAA’s lien on your licence and plate
If you owe ACAA for an accident, it files a lien blocking registration renewal, your licence and any transfer of the vehicle.
September 3, 2026
Suing the at-fault driver after ACAA has treated you
The ninety days in which you may not sue or settle, the year to claim, and the ACAA certification without which payment is void.
September 3, 2026
Vehicle dealer and parts licence: the $100,000 bond
Every dealer needs a minimum $100,000 bond covering hidden defects and warranties, plus $50,000 per branch.
September 4, 2026
Opening a vehicle inspection station: requirements, equipment and bond
14 by 30 by 14 feet, 4,000 square feet of parking, two mechanics and a $20,000 bond to sell marbetes.
September 4, 2026
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