P.R. Laws tit. 22, § 1051b
(a) In accordance with the public policy established in § 1051(o) of this title, every information, data, statistics, reports, plans, and documents received and/or disclosed by any of the entities created under this chapter, PREPA, and every electric power company shall be subject to the following principles:
(1) The information shall be complete, except for privileged information which shall be suppressed in accordance with the Rules of Evidence adopted by the Judicial Branch of Puerto Rico;
(2) the disclosure of the information shall be timely;
(3) the data shall be in a raw and detailed form, not modified. In addition to the original text of any document where such information or data appears, documents where such information is organized and shown so that it may be easily handled by persons without expertise in the disciplines addressed therein may understand them shall be published and made available to customers;
(4) the information shall not be subject to confidentiality standards broader than those required;
(5) the data must be machine processable;
(6) the public may access such information electronically without the need to register or create an account, and free of charge;
(7) data produced by employees, officials, or contractors working for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico shall not be subject to any copyright, patents, trademarks, or trade secret. Reasonable restrictions based on doctrines of privacy, security, and evidentiary privileges may apply; and
(8) such data must be available in nonproprietary format; that is to say, no one shall have exclusive control over it.
(b) any person or entity to which these principles apply shall designate an official to assist and respond to any question that users may have on the information published.
History —May 27, 2014, No. 57, § 1.4.