P.R. Laws tit. 21, § 4256
In any case in which, by provision of this subtitle, the promulgation of any ordinance, resolution, regulations, or municipal act is required, such requirement shall be deemed as complied with, by the diffusion, notice or distribution through any medium, of the municipal act in question, without having necessarily to publish an announcement in a daily newspaper of general circulation, unless such publication is expressly required by law or ordinance. The mayor, or the official on whom he/she delegates, shall be responsible for filing a certified copy of municipal regulations of general application, as well as the amendments thereto with the Department of State, within ten (10) days following the date of their approval.
In the case of municipal resolutions and ordinances, the Secretary of the Legislature shall be responsible for filing with the Department of State chronological index which includes the title of all the approved ordinances and resolutions, no later than twenty-five (25) days following the final approval of the measure. Said index shall be accompanied by certification signed by the Secretary and the President of the Legislature.
Failure to file the ordinances, resolutions and regulations shall not render them ineffective nor shall it prevent the ordinance, resolution or regulation in question, from becoming effective, but the Commissioner may impose an administrative fine in the manner provided in this subtitle, on the officials who are guilty of such omission.
History —Aug. 30, 1991, No. 81, § 6.006; Dec. 17, 1993, No. 130, § 4; May 15, 1996, No. 37, § 1.