P.R. Laws tit. 4, § 2031a
Every notary shall remit to the Director of the Notarial Inspection Office, the annual statistical report that is required on the notarial documents authorized during the preceding year no later than the last day of February of the following year.
In the event that said date is a Saturday, Sunday or holiday, or if by provision of the competent authority the Notarial Inspection Office is closed, the deadline shall be considered extended to the next working day.
The report shall be made on the form provided by the Director of the Notarial Inspection Office.
In case of a late presentation of the annual statistical report on notarial activity, the Director of the Notarial Inspection Office may require the notary to explain the delay and to submit any other information that the Director deems convenient.
The Director of the Notarial Inspection Office may accept the explanation offered and advise the notary of the strict compliance of his/her obligations as such in the future. In the cases deemed pertinent, the Director shall submit a report on this matter to the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico.
The report shall be made in the form provided by the Notarial Inspection Office. When the notary is an employee of a public instrumentality which allows him/her to engage in notarial private practice outside working hours, the notary shall separate the notarial work performed as notary of the public body from the work performed in private practice in the required report.
The Supreme Court of Puerto Rico may eliminate the obligation of the notaries to file the annual statistical report of notarial activity established in this section once the electronic systems that generate this information based upon the monthly indices sent by the notaries have been adopted.
History —July 2, 1987, No. 75, p. 242, added as § 13-A on Jan. 8, 2004, No. 24, § 1; Dec. 13, 2007, No. 196, § 8.