P.R. Laws tit. 26, § 3629
Every society authorized to do business in Puerto Rico shall appoint in writing the Commissioner of Insurance and any successor in office to be its proxy, to whom all lawful process in any action or proceeding against it shall be served, and shall agree in such writing that any lawful process against it which is served on said proxy shall be of the same legal force and validity as if served upon the society, and that the authority shall continue in force so long as any liability of the society remains outstanding in Puerto Rico. Copies of such appointment, certified by the Commissioner of Insurance, shall be deemed sufficient evidence thereof and shall be admitted in evidence with the same force and effect as the original thereof might be admitted.
Service shall only be made upon the Commissioner of Insurance, or, if absent, upon the person in charge of his office. It shall be made in duplicate and shall constitute sufficient service upon the society. When legal process against a society is served upon the Commissioner of Insurance, he shall forthwith forward one of the duplicate copies by registered mail, prepaid, directed to the secretary or corresponding officer. No such service shall require a society to file its answer, pleading or defense in less than thirty days from the date of mailing the copy of the service to a society. Legal process shall not be served upon a society except in the manner herein provided. At the time of serving any process upon the Commissioner of Insurance, the plaintiff or complainant in the action shall pay to the Commissioner of Insurance a fee of two dollars ($2).
History —Ins. Code, added as § 36.290 on June 13, 1964, No. 55, p. 122.