P.R. Laws tit. 21, § 4367
Any person may request permission to inspect, copy, photocopy, or obtain certified copies of any municipal public document, unless specifically provided otherwise by any act to such effects. For the purposes of this section, “public document” shall mean any writ, paper, book, booklet, photograph, photocopy, film, microchip, magnetic tape, map, drawing, plan, tape, compact disc, or any other material that is read by machine, or informative in nature, regardless of its form or physical characteristics, and which is originated, received or kept in any administrative unit, dependency or office of the municipality pursuant to law; and any writ that is originated in another agency of the Commonwealth Government or the federal government, or originated by any private, natural, or juridical person in the regular course of their transactions with the municipality, and is permanently or temporarily kept in any administrative unit, office or dependency of the municipality for its administrative use or legal, fiscal, historical or cultural value.
Every municipal official under whose custody there is any municipal public document, has the obligation to issue, as required, a certified copy thereof after payment of the corresponding legal fees. The fees to be charged for the issuing and certification of municipal public documents shall be established by ordinance. and shall be reasonably sufficient to reimburse the municipality for the cost of searching and reproducing them.
No fee whatsoever shall be charged for the search and reproduction of any municipal public documents That are requested for official business by any Legislative Chamber, or their Committees, a Court of Justice, the Office of the Controller of Puerto Rico, the Center of any court, agency or official of the Central Government or the federal government.
History —Aug. 30, 1991, No. 81, § 8.017.