P.R. Laws tit. 10, § 4002
In all purchase-sale or lease contracts for equipment granted by the government bodies mentioned in § 4001 of this title, the following clause shall be included, according to the equipment to be acquired or leased:
“The contractor or supplier shall warranty that all non-commercial products, including, but without being limited to computer equipment or physical equipment, programs or logic support, or accessories thereof delivered or developed under the present contract and that are identified and listed hereinbelow, can adequately process the information regarding the date and hour, including but not limited to what refers to the calculation, comparison and sequence, from, to and between the twentieth (XX) century and the twenty-first (XXI) century and the years 1999 and 2000 and the calculation of leap years. He/She shall also warranty that the products allow for the adequate interchange of information regarding dates and time with any other information technology used in combination with the information technology acquired or leased through this contract. If, under the present contract it is required that the specifically indicated products function or work as a system, under the present warranty, then said warranty shall be applied to said products listed as a system. The duration of this warranty and the remedies available to the Government of Puerto Rico for failure to comply with the warranty shall be those defined in, and shall be subject to the terms and limitations of any general warranty clause in this contract. It is hereby established that regardless of the existence of any other provision to the contrary or in the absence of any warranty clause, the remedies available to the Government of Puerto Rico shall include, and shall be understood to entail, the repair and replacement of all the products listed, upon discovery that the same do not meet the requirement established in this clause and that is notified in writing to the contractor or supplier within one hundred and eighty (180) days of its acceptance. Nothing in this warranty shall be construed to limit the rights or remedies available to the Government of Puerto Rico regarding any other defect not related to the problem of the year two thousand (2000).”
History —Aug. 7, 1998, No. 199, § 3.