P.R. Laws tit. 9, § 3527
Law enforcement officers are hereby authorized to detain and inspect and retain for investigation for a reasonably necessary period of time not to exceed thirty (30) calendar days, any unit when one (1) or more of the circumstances mentioned below exist:
(1) The unit has been reported as illegally appropriated, stolen, missing, destroyed, or exported.
(2) Any one of the digits in the serial or vehicle identification number of the unit or of indispensable parts thereof that are in plain sight have been erased, mutilated, altered, substituted, superimposed, detached, adapted or otherwise modified.
(3) The information contained in the certificate of ownership or any other document is different from or in any substantial aspect does not coincide with the physical description of the unit.
(4) When indispensable unit parts that are in plain sight do not correspond to the unit in question and the owner or holder is unable to explain the origin of said parts satisfactorily.
(5) When the unit is being hauled, whether by a tow truck or other vehicle, and there are well-founded motives to believe that the unit in question is a missing, stolen or illegally appropriated unit, and the person hauling the same is unable to explain the reasons for such haul and the authorization to do so.
(6) The unit does not appear as duly registered pursuant to what is established in this chapter at the Department of Transportation and Public Works and said situation is known.
History —Sept. 30, 2004, No. 531, § 5.09, eff. 6 months after Sept. 30, 2004.