P.R. Laws tit. 31, § 984
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It shall not be necessary that a newly born child be presented to the official in charge of the registry for the record of birth, the statement of the person obliged to make it being sufficient. This statement shall include all the conditions required by law and shall be signed by its author or by two witnesses, at his request, should he not be able to do so.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 251.