P.R. Laws tit. 24, § 1132a
The administrator or director of the institution, when a birth occurs in a hospital, sanatorium, asylum, penitentiary, or any other public or private institution established in Puerto Rico, shall be under the obligation to provide the certificate of birth to the father or mother who voluntary wishes to recognize the newborn child, so that he/she may sign his/her full name in the corresponding space during the mother’s stay at the institution. If he/she refuses to do so voluntarily, the administrator or director of said institution shall be under the obligation to complete the birth certificate with the information of the mother, and once it is signed by her, the former shall send it to the Vital Statistics Registry. In the case the mother refuses to sign the birth certificate, the administrator or director of the institution shall make an annotation on the back of the document, signing it and writing the time and date in which said annotation was made. The Administrator or director of the institution shall remit said signed birth certificate to the Vital Statistics Registry for its registration.
History —Apr. 22, 1931, No. 24, p. 228, added as § 18-A on Aug. 17, 1994, No. 86, § 62; Aug. 10, 2006, No. 157, § 1; Aug. 15, 2007, No. 111, § 3.