P.R. Laws Ap. tit. 32A, § III, Rule 27.4
(a) The party requesting the deposition shall be able to choose that the latter be taken or recorded by any other means other than stenographic, shorthand, or any other similar means, such as video or sound recording, or both. The “Rules for Recording and Videotaping in Court” of December 30, 1981, shall provide the way in which the depositions shall be taken and recorded, as well as the custody and disposition thereof, and shall establish the provisions for the recording and preservation of said testimony in a correct and trustworthy manner. If the deposition is taken by any alternate means other than stenographic, shorthand or similar means, any of the parties shall record and transcribe said deposition through stenographic, shorthand, or any other similar means, at their expense.
(b) The procedure to preserve and reproduce a recorded deposition made through simultaneous sound or video method shall be as follows:
(1) The notification of the recording of the deposition shall be made according to Rule 27.2 of this appendix.
(2) The recording of the deposition shall start by identifying the case, the parties, the appearing legal counselors, the day, time, and place in which the deposition is being recorded.
(3) If the deposition is to be preserved through any simultaneous sound or video method, the deponent shall be treated pursuant to provisions of Rule 25 of this appendix and, in the event where the recording equipment does not have an internal clock, he/she shall be sit near to a clock that shall remain in the range of the camera at all times during the deposition.
(4) Once the deposition has concluded, partially or entirely, the petitioner thereof shall make a statement to such effects, including time and date.
(c) The interested parties are entitled to be provided with an accurate copy of the deposition by the person or party that recorded it, upon payment of the reasonable expenses of the duplication.
(d) If the preservation and reproduction of the deposition is made through a simultaneous sound and video method, the equipment and videotape shall be of wide access and use.
History —June 3, 2008, No. 84, § 1.