P.R. Laws tit. 25, § 2356
(a) No commander of a guard, or keeper of a jail, prison, penitentiary or any other type of penal institution for the confinement of offenders designated by the Governor or the Adjutant General, as provided in § 2355 of this title, shall refuse to receive and keep any prisoner committed to his charge, when the committing person furnishes a statement, signed by the officer who so ordered, and in which there is specified the charges made against the prisoner.
(b) Every commander of a guard, warden of a municipal jail, keeper of a prison, penitentiary or any other type of penal institution for the seclusion of delinquents as designated by the Governor or the Adjutant General in accordance with § 2355 of this title, to whose charge a prisoner is committed shall, within twenty-four (24) hours after that commitment, report to the commanding officer of the prisoner the name of the prisoner, the offense charged against him, and the name of the person who ordered or authorized the commitment.
History —June 23, 1969, No. 62, p. 117, § 505, eff. 90 days after June 23, 1969.