P.R. Laws tit. 4, § 2123

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§ 2123. Register of wills—Certified reports

The notaries shall remit to the Director of the Notarial Inspection Office, the next day after its execution, not counting Saturdays and Sundays or legal holidays, a notice authorized by them of each master deed granting, modifying, revoking or extending a will or recording of a holographic or sealed will, stating in said notice the number of the deed or record, the date, place and hour it was executed and the name and surname of the testator and of the witnesses, as the case may be, with their personal circumstances as they appear in the document and any other information required. In order to provide to the Notarial Inspection Office the means to establish the identity of the testator if any doubt should arise, the notice shall include the number of one of the following documents, selected in order of prelation:

(1) The last four (4) digits of the number appearing on the Social Security card.

(2) Driver’s license.

(3) Passport.

(4) Green card.

(5) Identity card.

(6) Elector’s card, as provided in §§ 3001 et seq. of Title 16.

If the notary does not have access to any of the referred identification numbers, he/she shall so state in the notice, together with a statement of the circumstances that made it impossible for him/her to obtain the information.

The referred notice shall be remitted to the Notarial Inspection Office pursuant to the procedure established by the Supreme Court through regulations.

History —July 2, 1987, No. 75, p. 242, § 73; Nov. 4, 2005, No. 136, § 1; Dec. 13, 2007, No. 196, § 16.