P.R. Laws tit. 4, § 922
It shall be the duty of every notary before whom a deed to constitute, modify, extend, substitute, renounce, revoke or renew a power of attorney is executed, to send to the Notarial Inspection Office, within the next three (3) days following the execution thereof, not counting Saturdays and Sundays or legal holidays, a notice certified under his seal, setting forth therein the name or names of the grantor or grantors and of the witnesses, and the date, number, and nature of the deed, specifying the person to whom the power of attorney is granted, extended, modified, or revoked.
In order to provide to the Notarial Inspection Office the means to establish the identity of the party or parties conferring the power of attorney if any doubt should arise, the notice shall include the number of one of the following documents, selected in order of prelation:
(1) The last four (4) digits of the number appearing on the Social Security card.
(2) Driver’s license.
(3) Passport.
(4) Green card.
(5) Identity card.
(6) Elector’s card, as provided in Act §§ 3001 et seq. of Title 16.
If the notary does not have access to any of the referred identification numbers, he/she shall so state in the notice, together with a statement of the circumstances that made it impossible for him/her to obtain the information.
In case of substitution of the power of attorney, the name of the person substituted and of the attorney-in-fact shall be stated in said notice, and in cases of renunciation of the power of attorney, the name of the constituent thereof shall be consigned in said notice; Provided, That it shall be the duty of the Director of the Notarial Inspection Office to acknowledge to the notaries the receipt of the said notice and to proceed immediately after the receipt thereof to make the corresponding entry in the Register prescribed in § 924 of this title.
History —May 8, 1937, No. 62, p. 185, § 3; May 3, 1954, No. 25, p. 166, § 1; Mar. 30, 1976, No. 19, p. 43, § 4; Dec. 13, 2007, No. 196, § 21.