P.R. Laws tit. 9, § 3203a
Without prejudice to the provisions and obligations contained in other laws, the Secretary of Transportation and Public Works shall assign a replacement identification number and establish the Special Register of Seized Vehicles with Replacement Identification Number for any seized vehicle or any other means of land transportation which turns out to be illegal because its serial or identification number is non-recoverable due to having been deleted, mutilated, altered, substituted, superimposed, removed, adapted or otherwise modified which may be useful and is transferred to the Puerto Rico Police, the municipalities of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico having municipal police, or to the Employment and Training Enterprises Corporation, as provided in §§ 1723 et seq. of Title 34, known as the “Uniform Seizures Act of 1988”.
This Special Register shall include, among other information, the following:
(1) Description of the vehicle or means of land transportation including trademark, year, model or type, color, license plate number or replacement identification number assigned, type of engine, actual horse power, registration number, number of doors, if applicable, and any other numbers or trademark of the unit or its parts.
(2) A notation that indicates and describes the series number as altered and that resulted in the seizure and the way in which the forgery was made.
(3) Date registered with the Special Register of Seized Vehicles with Replacement Identification Number of Department of Transportation and Public Works.
(4) Any information related to the seizure, transfer to the Police of Puerto Rico or to the municipalities of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico that have a municipal police, disappearance, theft, illegal appropriation or destruction.
(5) Insurance company name and address.
History —Aug. 5, 1987, No. 8, p. 612, added as § 4-A on Jan. 27, 2003, No. 72, § 2; Sept. 16, 2004, No. 332, § 2.