P.R. Laws tit. 10, § 4086
(a) No legal effect or validity shall be denied to any electronic documents or signatures solely because they are in electronic form.
(b) No legal effect or validity shall be denied to a contract because an electronic document was used in its formation.
(c) Should any law require that a certain document be in writing, an electronic document shall meet said requirement.
(d) Should any law require a certain document to contain a signature, an electronic signature shall meet said requirement.
(e) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a message, document, or transaction that is associated with or attached to a valid electronic signature pursuant to applicable laws shall have the same legal effect conferred on the documents executed with handwritten signatures.
(f) None of the provisions of this chapter shall be construed so as to limit the probationary value that a message, document, or transaction without an associated or attached electronic signature could have, even if the same is never printed on paper or another medium different from that on which it was originally issued. These provisions shall neither be applied so as to exclude, restrict, or divest from its legal effect such message, document, or transaction without an associated or attached electronic signature when the applicable laws do not require either the electronic signature or the handwritten signature.
(g) The provisions of this chapter shall neither be construed so as to exclude, restrict, or divest from its legal value and effect, any message, document, or transaction in which an electronic agent intervened in its issue or transmission, insofar as the actions of such electronic agent are legally attributable to the person involved.
History —Aug. 8, 2006, No. 148, § 7; Oct. 25, 2010, No. 155, § 4.