P.R. Laws tit. 4, § 2005
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(a) No notary may authorize documents he is a party to, or which include provisions in his favor. Neither may he authorize them if any one of the executing parties is related to him within the fourth degree of consanguinity or the second degree of affinity, except when he appears in the document as a representative.
(b) The provisions in favor of relatives of the notary who authorized the public document in which they were made within the fourth degree of consanguinity or the second degree of affinity shall have no effect.
History —July 2, 1987, No. 75, p. 242, § 5, eff. 60 days after July 2, 1987.