P.R. Laws tit. 16, § 4197
When the canvass has been completed, the Polling Place Board shall return all election material of such polling place to the Electoral Unit Board, as provided by the Commission through regulations. The Electoral Unit Board shall process the voting results of all the polling places in the electoral unit and return all election material corresponding to its polling places to the local commission of its precinct, as provided by the Commission through regulations. The original and the copies of the voter lists of the polling place, as well as the originals of all tally sheets and logs, shall be returned to the local commission inside the election material bags.
As soon as the local commission receives the election material from all the polling places in each of the electoral units in the precinct, it shall certify the summary of the voting of said precinct. Once it concludes the summary, the local commission shall immediately send all the election materials of the polling places in the precinct to the Commission, as provided by the Commission through regulations. It shall be the responsibility of the local commission to make the pertinent arrangements with the Puerto Rico Police in order to provide the necessary security and protection to these materials from the time they leave the local commission until they are delivered to the Commission. The local commission shall be responsible for the custody of such materials until they are delivered to the Commission.
It shall be an election-related offense, as classified in § 4234 of this title, for the members of the Polling Place Board, Electoral Unit Board, or local commission to abandon their work without having concluded, uninterruptedly, all canvassing works and procedures established in this subtitle.’
History —June 1, 2011, No. 78, § 10.007; Nov. 21, 2011, No. 230, § 31.