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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 81 - Registries of Property and Registrars Generally (§§ 1701-1721 — 1770e) › § 1725 - Substitution and cancellation of bonds of registrars and notaries

The registrars of property, who, by exercising the right accorded to them by article 377 of the Mortgage Law, shall substitute the bonds by them executed for the discharge of their offices, by other bonds either a cash bond or by a mortgage bond or a bond executed by a company doing business in this Commonwealth, shall have the right, after the new bond has been approved to pray the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to issue the order for the return or cancellation of the substituted bond as the case may be. The same right is hereby granted to notaries in the case of the substitution of their bonds.
History —Mar. 9, 1911, No. 69, p. 224, § 1, eff. 30 days after Mar. 9. 1911.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 81 - Registries of Property and Registrars Generally (§§ 1701-1721 — 1770e) › § 1726 - Substitution and cancellation of bonds of registrars and notaries—Period for return of bonds; corporate bonds

The term of three years prescribed by article 384 of the Mortgage Regulation of 1893 for the return of bonds to registrars of property who shall have been permitted to substitute them, is hereby reduced to three months. The same term is hereby fixed for the return of the bonds to notaries substituting their bonds: Provided, That in those cases where the registrar of property or notaries have furnished corporate bonds, said bonds may be terminated by either the party bonded or surety, upon giving sixty days’ notice in writing to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, which notice of termination shall be communicated by the secretary of the court to the party bonded, requesting a new bond. Should no new bond be substituted or furnished within said sixty days, the commission of the registrar or notary shall be canceled. A certificate of termination shall be furnished the surety company on the expiration of the sixty days’ notice, but the bond so terminated shall be considered good and valid, for three years after its termination, for acts committed during the period said bond was in existence.
History —Mar. 9, 1911, No. 69, p. 224, § 2; Mar. 7, 1912, No. 50, p. 94.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 81 - Registries of Property and Registrars Generally (§§ 1701-1721 — 1770e) › § 1727 - Substitution and cancellation of bonds of registrars and notaries—Petition for cancellation of bonds; publication of notice

The parties in interest or their heirs, shall petition the part of the Court of First Instance wherein they have rendered their services, for the cancellation of their bonds, and the court will direct the publication of a notice in the official paper of the Commonwealth, if it should exist, and in its default in one of the capital and two of the locality, if so edited, and in a contrary case, in those of the nearest capital of a part of the Court of First Instance, every two weeks during the six months fixed in the previous section [sic] summoning and enjoining those who may have any claim to adduce, to file them within the hereinabove specified period with the part of the Court of First Instance wherein they should have practiced or rendered service, and for this purpose, these courts shall be stated in the notice.
History —Mar. 9, 1911, No. 69, p. 224, § 3, eff. 30 days after Mar. 9, 1911.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 81 - Registries of Property and Registrars Generally (§§ 1701-1721 — 1770e) › § 1728 - Substitution and cancellation of bonds of registrars and notaries—Certificate that no claims filed

These terms having elapsed and no claims having been filed, the proper certificate shall be sent to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court setting forth the fact that no claim has been entered against the registrar or notary in question, for the liabilities by him contracted in the discharge of his office.
History —Mar. 9, 1911, No. 69, p. 224, § 4, eff. 30 days after Mar. 9, 1911.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 81 - Registries of Property and Registrars Generally (§§ 1701-1721 — 1770e) › § 1729 - Substitution and cancellation of bonds of registrars and notaries—Service in different localities

The registrar or notary who has rendered service in different localities when petitioning for the return of his substituted bond, shall demonstrate by a certificate from the judge of the part of the Court of First Instance wherein he has served, that said substituted bond is not subject to any responsibility and that the term of six months after the approval of the new bond has expired.
History —Mar. 9, 1911, No. 69, p. 224, § 5, eff. 30 days after Mar. 9, 1911.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 81 - Registries of Property and Registrars Generally (§§ 1701-1721 — 1770e) › § 1730 - Substitution and cancellation of bonds of registrars and notaries—Order of cancellation

The order of cancellation made by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, shall be communicated to the Secretary of Justice of Puerto Rico, to the Secretary of the Treasury of Puerto Rico and to the part or parts of the Court of First Instance where this cancellation shall have been petitioned. The order of cancellation issued by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, with all necessary requirements, shall fully serve to cancel the corresponding inscription in the registry of property.
History —Mar. 9, 1911, No. 69, p. 224, § 6, eff. 30 days after Mar. 9, 1911.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 81 - Registries of Property and Registrars Generally (§§ 1701-1721 — 1770e) › § 1735 - Property Registry-Statistics

The Secretary of Justice shall issue an administrative order that shall apply to all sections of the Property Registry of the Commonwealth, directing the production of any statistics he deems pertinent and necessary for the proper administration thereof, for use by the agencies, departments, and public corporations of the local or federal governments, as well as for academic and research purposes.
History —Apr. 22, 1930, No. 19, p. 234, § 1, eff. 90 days after Apr. 22, 1930; June 28, 2013, No. 38, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 81 - Registries of Property and Registrars Generally (§§ 1701-1721 — 1770e) › § 1736 - Repealed

History —Apr. 22, 1930, No. 19, p. 234, § 2, eff. 90 days after Apr. 22, 1930; Repealed. Act.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 81 - Registries of Property and Registrars Generally (§§ 1701-1721 — 1770e) › § 1737 - Repealed

History —Apr. 22, 1930, No. 19, p. 234, § 3, eff. 90 days after Apr. 22, 1930; Repealed. Act.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 81 - Registries of Property and Registrars Generally (§§ 1701-1721 — 1770e) › § 1738 - Repealed

History —Apr. 22, 1930, No. 19, p. 234, § 4, eff. 90 days after Apr. 22, 1930; Repealed. Act.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 81 - Registries of Property and Registrars Generally (§§ 1701-1721 — 1770e) › § 1739 - Repealed

As soon as §§ 1735 and 1739 of this title takes effect, the Secretary of Justice shall proceed to prepare adequate forms and instructions to be used in a manner that, in his judgment, is advisable to better accomplish the purposes of §§ 1735 and 1739 of this title.
History —Apr. 22, 1930, No. 19, p. 234, § 5, eff. 90 days after Apr. 22, 1930; June 28, 2013, No. 38, § 5.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 81 - Registries of Property and Registrars Generally (§§ 1701-1721 — 1770e) › § 1740 - Restoration of deteriorated books and binding of documents

The Secretary of Justice of Puerto Rico is hereby authorized to adopt the necessary measures for the purpose of transferring literally to new books the contents of such volumes in the various Registries of Property of the Commonwealth as are in a state of deterioration through age and constant use, for rebinding such books as he may deem necessary, and for binding the files of documents which form a part of the matters of said Registries.
History —May 12, 1952, No. 384, p. 760, § 1, eff. July 1, 1952.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 81 - Registries of Property and Registrars Generally (§§ 1701-1721 — 1770e) › § 1741 - Restoration of deteriorated books and binding of documents—Regulation of work

The Secretary of Justice shall determine the Registries of Property where it may be necessary to transfer to new books the contents of such deteriorated volumes, the number of registration volumes it may be necessary to rebind, and the number of files of documents that must be bound, and he is hereby empowered to prescribe the manner in which said work shall be carried out in said registries, chargeable to such appropriations as may be made.
History —May 12, 1952, No. 384, p. 760, § 2, eff. July 1, 1952.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 81 - Registries of Property and Registrars Generally (§§ 1701-1721 — 1770e) › § 1742 - Restoration of deteriorated books and binding of documents—Authentication of books

Before transferring to the new books the entries contained in the deteriorated registration volumes, the Registrars shall previously have the former authenticated by the proper part of the Court of First Instance, and, in addition, they shall set forth the reasons for which it has been necessary to reconstruct or transfer to new books the contents of the deteriorated books. After the transfer is made, the Registrar shall certify that he has compared the old entries against the new ones and that the latter constitute a true and exact copy of the originals, which shall remain under his custody.
History —May 12, 1952, No. 384, p. 760, § 3, eff. July 1, 1952.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 81 - Registries of Property and Registrars Generally (§§ 1701-1721 — 1770e) › § 1743 - Restoration of deteriorated books and binding of documents—Reconstruction of missing entries

In the event that difficulties arise in the transfer of the said entries because of such deterioration of any of the pages of the volumes or because fragments are missing from any of the pages, the Registrar is hereby authorized to transfer the contents as far as it is legible and intelligible, and he is likewise empowered to reconstruct, at his most considered discretion and responsibility, the pertinent parts of deteriorated entries, in harmony with other entries and antecedents in the Registry having relation with the entries which are being transferred.
History —May 12, 1952, No. 384, p. 760, § 4, eff. July 1, 1952.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 81 - Registries of Property and Registrars Generally (§§ 1701-1721 — 1770e) › § 1744 - Restoration of deteriorated books and binding of documents—Status of old and new volumes

The new or reconstructed books to which the entries contained in the deteriorated or old books are transferred are hereby declared to be substitute duplicate books or volumes, and the Registrars are hereby authorized to make subsequent entries in them. The old books shall constitute original records and as such shall be kept in the Registries.
History —May 12, 1952, No. 384, p. 760, § 5, eff. July 1, 1952.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 81 - Registries of Property and Registrars Generally (§§ 1701-1721 — 1770e) › § 1745 - Restoration of deteriorated books and binding of documents—Personnel

The Secretary of Justice shall appoint the necessary personnel to carry out the purposes of §§ 1740-1747 of this title, without being subject to the provisions of Act No. 345 of May 12, 1947.
History —May 12, 1952, No. 384, p. 760, § 6, eff. July 1, 1952.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 81 - Registries of Property and Registrars Generally (§§ 1701-1721 — 1770e) › § 1746 - Restoration of deteriorated books and binding of documents—Appropriations

The sum of fifty-three thousand five hundred and forty (53,540) dollars is hereby appropriated to the Department of Justice for the fiscal year 1952-53, from any available funds in the Commonwealth Treasury.
For succeeding fiscal years there shall be appropriated in the General Budget of Expenses to carry on the Commonwealth Government, such sums as may be deemed necessary for the enforcement of the provisions of §§ 1740-1747 of this title.
History —May 12, 1952, No. 384, p. 760, § 7, eff. July 1, 1952.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 81 - Registries of Property and Registrars Generally (§§ 1701-1721 — 1770e) › § 1747 - Restoration of deteriorated books and binding of documents—Repeal of other laws

All laws or parts of laws providing for the transferring to new books of volumes of the registries of property in a state of deterioration, are hereby repealed.
History —May 12, 1952, No. 384, p. 760, § 8, eff. July 1, 1952.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 81 - Registries of Property and Registrars Generally (§§ 1701-1721 — 1770e) › § 1767c - Schedule of fees to be paid—Forms of payment

The fees accrued by the operations in the registry, as provided by §§ 1767a to 1767e of this title, shall be paid in the Internal Revenue Collector’s Offices of Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or with the stamps, securities, or documents that the Secretary of the Treasury authorizes for these purposes, and issues manually or electronically himself or through the internal revenue stamps agents.
A voucher shall be issued. The copy of the voucher bought in a Tax Collector’s Office, or the original of the voucher bought electronically (whether through an agent for the sale of internal revenue stamps or of the Department of the Treasury), shall be turned over when the document or documents are presented at the corresponding section of the Property Registry of Puerto Rico. The Registrar shall keep the vouchers and shall file them by fiscal years, proceeding to destroy those that pertain to all the documents filed prior to the closing date of the last intervention by the Office of the Comptroller, proceeding in like manner in future interventions. The taxpayer shall request a separate ten (10) -dollar voucher for the entry of a real estate mortgage up to a maximum of three (3) vouchers for the total registration fees.
The Registrar shall record the number, amount, and date of the payment vouchers in the book of presentation or of registration, as the case may be, and on the certified copies of the documents.
In those case[s] the payment vouchers issued for these purposes are not used by the taxpayer, the latter may request a refund of the fees thus paid, through a written request to the Secretary of the Treasury, attaching the original and a copy of the payment voucher originally issued by the Collector’s Office, or the original of the payment voucher issued electronically.
When the amount of the payment vouchers exceeds the registration fees determined by the Registrar for the registration of any document, the taxpayer may obtain the refund of the fees paid in excess, provided he/she requests it in writing to the Secretary of the Treasury. The taxpayer who has acquired the receipt in the Tax Collector’s Office shall attach to his or her request the payment voucher issued, and a certificate signed by the Registrar stating the amount of the fees that can be reimbursed to the taxpayer. The taxpayer that has acquired the voucher electronically shall attach, the Registrar’s certificate and a copy of the voucher certified by him/her to the request for a refund.
History —June 20, 1963, No. 67, p. 216, § 3; May 30, 1970, No. 91, p. 240, §§ 3 and 6; June 7, 1977, No. 54, p. 117; Aug. 12, 1982, No. 3, p. 216, § 3; Aug. 10, 1988, No. 163, p. 702; Dec. 28, 1999, No. 364, § 1, eff. 180 days after Dec. 28, 1999.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 81 - Registries of Property and Registrars Generally (§§ 1701-1721 — 1770e) › § 1767d - Schedule of fees to be paid—Presentation of receipt of payment

No document to which the corresponding receipts of payment have not been attached in payment of the total fees fixed by §§ 1767a-1767e of this title shall be accepted for presentation in the Property Registry of Puerto Rico, and the Registrar shall so state in writing at the foot of the document, if so requested by the interested party. An appeal may be taken to the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico from the action of the Registrar, by filing the proper proceeding; Provided, That if the interested party wishes to invoke relief in protection of his registration rights, he shall file the total amount of the fees required by the Property Registrar before perfecting his appeal.
History —May 30, 1970, No. 91, p. 240, § 4, eff. 90 days after May 30, 1970.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 81 - Registries of Property and Registrars Generally (§§ 1701-1721 — 1770e) › § 1767e - Schedule of fees to be paid—Limitation of entry of presentation

When the applicant requests in writing to limit the entry of presentation, the Property Registrar shall request the latter to deliver a new receipt in payment of the operations in the registry to be made and he shall return to the applicant the receipt originally delivered.
History —May 30, 1970, No. 91, p. 240, § 5, eff. 90 days after May 30, 1970.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 81 - Registries of Property and Registrars Generally (§§ 1701-1721 — 1770e) › § 1770a - Exemption of United States Government from certain fees

The United States of America and its agencies and instrumentalities, including The Federal Land Bank of Baltimore, the Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of Baltimore, The Baltimore Bank of Cooperatives, The Federal Land Bank Association of San Juan and The Puerto Rico Production Credit Association, are hereby exempted from payment of all kinds of duties, taxes or fees prescribed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico for the authentication of documents before a notary or before any public officer and for the registration of documents and other operations in the registries of property.
History —June 9, 1956, No. 43, p. 132; June 2, 1967, No. 93, p. 309.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 81 - Registries of Property and Registrars Generally (§§ 1701-1721 — 1770e) › § 1770b - Model deeds with uniform agreements and conditions

In all cases where deeds for the constitution of mortgages, or other instruments, executed in behalf of any natural or artificial person, are drafted after a model with uniform agreements and conditions, the property registrars of Puerto Rico are hereby authorized to make, upon the first registration of such deeds in each municipality, a literal transcription of all the uniform and invariable conditions contained in said instruments, and also, upon subsequent entries in behalf of the same persons, made by virtue of contracts entered into by different grantors, even in the case of different farms, to set forth all the particular details of the contract, making reference to the first registration made and in which the agreements and conditions transcribed are contained, even if such registration has been canceled, which circumstance shall be set forth; and in all other respects, the registration shall conform to the provisions of the mortgage law and its regulations concerning full or brief registrations.
History —May 16, 1958, No. 15, p. 18, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 81 - Registries of Property and Registrars Generally (§§ 1701-1721 — 1770e) › § 1770c - Exemption of Commonwealth and agencies from fees

(a) The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, its agencies, instrumentalities, organizations, dependencies and political subdivisions, as well as the authorities and public corporations, including all retirement systems established by said entities, are hereby exempted from the payment of all kinds of fees prescribed for the registration of documents and other operations in the Registry of Property of Puerto Rico; Provided, further, That the exemption herein granted shall be made extensive to the Savings and Loan Fund Association of the Employees of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
(b) All existing laws granting exemption from the payment of fees as provided in subsection (a) of this section which are not inconsistent with this section shall continue in force.
History —June 13, 1958, No. 30, p. 39, §§ 1, 2; June 10, 1959, No. 25, p. 83, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 81 - Registries of Property and Registrars Generally (§§ 1701-1721 — 1770e) › § 1770d - Exemption of cooperative associations from fees

Cooperative associations organized under the laws of Puerto Rico and those foreign associations and corporations operating as cooperative associations, as defined in Section 2 of Act No. 291 of April 9, 1946, as amended, are hereby exempted from the payment of all kinds of fees prescribed for the presentation and recording of documents and other operations in the Property Registry of Puerto Rico. Said cooperative associations are also hereby exempted from the payment of the fees prescribed by §§ 851 to 858 of Title 4, as amended, on any contract in which they dispose of, encumber or alienate their properties, as well as on any contract with their members related with the purposes for which such cooperative associations have been organized.
History —July 12, 1960, No. 114, p. 318, § 1; June 13, 1966, No. 24, p. 145.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 81 - Registries of Property and Registrars Generally (§§ 1701-1721 — 1770e) › § 1770e - Exemption in labor cases

There is hereby exempted from the payment of dues of whatever kind, any operation performed at the property registry to enter attachments, complaints, and/or judgments in cases heretofore or hereafter filed before the courts by the lawyers of the Department of Labor and Human Resources in representation of workers or employees.
History —June 14, 1961, No. 62, p. 120.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 85 - Registry of Judgments Creating Liens on Real Property (§§ 1801 — 1813) › § 1801 - Abstract of judgment

It shall be the obligation of the clerk of any of the Sections or Parts of the Court of First Instance, whenever the person in whose favor a judgment has been pronounced, or his/her agent, attorney or assignee, request it, to issue and deliver to such petitioner, through the payment of a fee of fifty (50) cents for each certification under seal and forty (40) cents per copy of additional folios that comprise the abstract of said judgment, duly certified and officially signed by said clerk, and stamped with the seal of the corresponding Section or Part of the Court of First Instance, if available.
History —Mar. 8, 1906, p. 93, § 1; Feb. 16, 1996, No. 11, § 1, eff. 60 days after Feb. 16, 1996.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 85 - Registry of Judgments Creating Liens on Real Property (§§ 1801 — 1813) › § 1802 - Contents of abstract

The abstract provided for in § 1801 of this title shall show:
(1) The names in full of all the plaintiffs and of all the defendants in such judgment.
(2) The number of the suit in which the judgment was rendered and the court in which rendered.
(3) The date on which the judgment was rendered.
(4) The amount for which the judgment was rendered, and the amount still due upon the same.
(5) The rate of interest, if any is specified in the judgment, and the costs.
History —Mar. 8, 1906, p. 93, § 2, eff. 90 days after Mar. 8, 1906.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 85 - Registry of Judgments Creating Liens on Real Property (§§ 1801 — 1813) › § 1803 - Judgment record in each registry of property

Each registrar of property shall keep in his office a well-bound book, to be called the “judgment record,” in which he shall record at length all abstracts of judgment filed in his office for record, authenticated in the manner prescribed in §§ 1801—1813 of this title.
History —Mar. 8, 1906, p. 93, § 3, eff. 90 days after Mar. 8, 1906.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 85 - Registry of Judgments Creating Liens on Real Property (§§ 1801 — 1813) › § 1804 - Index to judgment record

Each registrar shall keep an index to the judgment record, which index shall be in alphabetical order and shall show the name of each plaintiff and of each defendant in the judgment, and the number of the page of the judgment book on which the abstract of judgment herein provided for is recorded.
History —Mar. 8, 1906, p. 93, § 4, eff. 90 days after Mar. 8, 1906.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 85 - Registry of Judgments Creating Liens on Real Property (§§ 1801 — 1813) › § 1805 - Record and index of each abstract

When the abstract provided for in §§ 1801-1804 of this title is presented to the registrar of property of any district for record, he shall file the same in his office, and shall immediately record it in the judgment record, noting on such record the date and hour of such entry, and shall also at the same time index such abstract upon the index provided for in § 1804 of this title. The registrar shall collect a fee of fifty cents for each abstract so recorded and indexed.
History —Mar. 8, 1906, p. 93, § 5, eff. 90 days after Mar. 8, 1906.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 85 - Registry of Judgments Creating Liens on Real Property (§§ 1801 — 1813) › § 1806 - Recorded judgment as lien on real property

When a judgment has been recorded and indexed, as provided for in the preceding sections, it shall at once operate as a lien upon all the immovable property of the defendant or defendants, not exempt from execution, situated in the district where such abstract is recorded, and upon the immovable property which the defendant or defendants may thereafter acquire in such district, and such lien shall be of like nature and preference as those mentioned in subsection (5) of § 5193 of Title 31.
History —Mar. 8, 1906, p. 93, § 6, eff. 90 days after Mar. 8, 1906.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 85 - Registry of Judgments Creating Liens on Real Property (§§ 1801 — 1813) › § 1807 - Judgment record and index open to public; copies

The judgment record and the index provided by §§ 1801-1813 of this title, shall be open to inspection by the public at all times during office hours without charge, and copies in pencil may be made by anyone of such record and index; and the registrar may issue certified copies from such record, and shall charge a fee of fifty cents for each copy so certified.
History —Mar. 8, 1906, p. 93, § 7, eff. 90 days after Mar. 8, 1906.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 85 - Registry of Judgments Creating Liens on Real Property (§§ 1801 — 1813) › § 1808 - Duration of lien

When the lien has been established as provided by §§ 1801-1813 of this title, it shall continue in effect until it is cancelled, which shall be done by petition of the interested party to the property registrar through action, after the term of five years from the date of said recording in the registry of judgments.
History —Mar. 8, 1906, p. 93, § 8; Mar. 8, 1988, No. 9, p. 53, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 85 - Registry of Judgments Creating Liens on Real Property (§§ 1801 — 1813) › § 1809 - Satisfaction of judgment

Satisfaction of the judgment which has become a lien, as above provided for, may be shown in whole or in part:
(1) By the return upon an execution issued upon said judgment, or by a certified copy of such return, certified by the secretary of the court to which the return was made, such certificate showing the names of the parties to the judgment, the number and style of the suit, the date and amount of the judgment, the court in which rendered, and the date of issuance and return of the execution; and the secretary shall collect a fee of fifty cents for such certificate.
(2) By a discharge in bankruptcy, which shall be proven by presenting to the registrar a duly certified copy of the judgment of the court wherein the bankruptcy proceedings were had, showing the discharge of the defendant or defendants named in the judgment sought to be satisfied, and a certificate, duly authenticated under the seal of said court, showing that the debt represented by the recorded judgment is one covered by the bankruptcy proceeding.
(3) By a receipt, acknowledgment or release, signed by the party entitle to receive the payment of the judgment, or his agent or attorney of record with sufficient power, and duly acknowledged before a notary public.
If the party executing the release is not known to the notary public, he shall require proof of his identity before authenticating the release, and for that purpose may take the oath of a credible witness, which shall be noted in the certificate. If the party is known to the notary, the certificate shall so state.
The form of the notary’s certificate shall be substantially as follows:
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Municipality of............... ss. Before me,............................, a notary public in and for Puerto Rico, on this day personally appeared................, known to me (or proved to me on the oath of.................., a credible witness) to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing satisfaction of judgment, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same for the purposes and considerations therein expressed. Given under my hand and seal of office, this................... day of..........., 19..........., at........... (Seal)........................... Notary Public of Puerto Rico
History —Mar. 8, 1906, p. 93, § 9, eff. 90 days after Mar. 8, 1906.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 85 - Registry of Judgments Creating Liens on Real Property (§§ 1801 — 1813) › § 1810 - Fees

The fee charged for each entry in the Registry books shall be equal to the amount indicated in the Puerto Rico Property Registry’s Revenue, evidenced by the copy of the internal revenue voucher, and only the fees shall be computed for the amount of the principal in the judgment, excluding any other additional sums.
History —Mar. 8, 1906, p. 93, § 10; Mar. 14, 1907, p. 232; May 1, 1941, No. 70, p. 650; June 3, 1980, No. 81, p. 229, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 85 - Registry of Judgments Creating Liens on Real Property (§§ 1801 — 1813) › § 1811 - Judgment of United States District Court

An abstract of a judgment rendered by the District Court of the United States for Puerto Rico may be entered in the registry of property in any district, in the same manner provided by §§ 1801-1813 of this title for the judgments of the Commonwealth courts of Puerto Rico, upon the certificate of the clerk of such United States Court, and the entry of such abstract shall have the same force and effect as that of a judgment in a Commonwealth court; and credits or satisfaction of such judgment may be noted in the margin of the registry of property in the manner provided by §§ 1801-1813 of this title for the noting of credits or satisfaction of judgments of Commonwealth courts.
History —Mar. 8, 1906, p. 93, § 11, eff. 90 days after Mar. 8, 1906.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 85 - Registry of Judgments Creating Liens on Real Property (§§ 1801 — 1813) › § 1812 - Acknowledgment or certificate of satisfaction

Whenever a judgment is satisfied otherwise than upon an execution, the party or his attorney must give an acknowledgment of same; and upon motion the court may require the party to execute the acknowledgment, or may order the certificate of satisfaction to be issued by the secretary to the registrar, which shall authorize that officer to make the proper entry upon his registry on payment of the fee allowed by law.
History —Mar. 8, 1906, p. 93, § 12, eff. 90 days after Mar. 8, 1906.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 85 - Registry of Judgments Creating Liens on Real Property (§§ 1801 — 1813) › § 1813 - Disposition of fees

The fees collected under the provisions of §§ 1801-1813 of this title shall be for the use and benefit of the Commonwealth Treasury.
History —Mar. 8, 1906, p. 93, § 13, eff. 90 days after Mar. 8, 1906.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 86 - Act to Streamline the Property Registry (§§ 1821 — 1831) › § 1821 - Documents to which this chapter applies

Any document presented in the Property Registry by April 30, 2010, shall be deemed to be recorded, except for those listed below:
(a) Documents concerning property subdivisions.
(b) Documents concerning the assemblage of properties.
(c) Documents concerning attachment of properties.
(d) Documents concerning eminent domain.
(e) Documents concerning ownership records.
(f) Documents correcting a capacity or describing a surplus.
(g) Documents constituting a Horizontal Property Regime.
(h) Subsequent documents arising from legal transactions, as mentioned in subsections (a)—(g) of this section, as well as documents presented after the effective date of this act.
(i) Documents notified, expired, or under reconsideration.
History —Dec. 27, 2010, No. 216, § 2, eff. 45 days after Dec. 27, 2010.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 86 - Act to Streamline the Property Registry (§§ 1821 — 1831) › § 1822 - Record or note

The Presentation Day Book entry and the first page of any document recorded by virtue of this chapter shall include the following note: “RECORDED in accordance with the Act to Streamline the Property Registry.”
Property Registrars shall submit a weekly report to the Office of the Administrative Director of the Property Registry that includes a list of the documents that had been identified as recorded by virtue of this chapter. Such report shall include the following: entry, day book, serial number and amount of cancelled stamps, employee initials, and the signature of the Registrar in charge of supervising the process.
History —Dec. 27, 2010, No. 216, § 3, eff. 45 days after Dec. 27, 2010.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 86 - Act to Streamline the Property Registry (§§ 1821 — 1831) › § 1823 - Abbreviated record entry; content

The judgment and record of documents excluded pursuant to § 1821 of this title, the documents presented after the date of effectiveness of this act and/or the issue of a Registration Certificate shall prompt the extension of a record entry of the documents recorded under this chapter. Such entry shall only include the following: owner of the rights, marital status, nature of the legal transaction, and document prompting such entry. Such entry shall also indicate any existing special condition, presentation date and data, and rights recorded.
History —Dec. 27, 2010, No. 216, § 4, eff. 45 days after Dec. 27, 2010.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 86 - Act to Streamline the Property Registry (§§ 1821 — 1831) › § 1824 - Recording of excluded documents; term

Registrars shall have a non-deferrable, which shall not exceed two (2) years, from the effective date of this act to judge all the documents that have not been recorded by virtue of this chapter. Any document presented as of May 1st, 2010, shall be judged within a non-deferrable term of ninety (90) business days counted as of the effective date of this act. Failure to meet the terms herein established for reasons attributable only to the conduct of the Registrar shall entail the disciplinary actions to be established through regulations.
History —Dec. 27, 2010, No. 216, § 5, eff. 45 days after Dec. 27, 2010.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 86 - Act to Streamline the Property Registry (§§ 1821 — 1831) › § 1825 - Documents presented after April 30, 2010, and documents exempted under this chapter

The registration of documents presented after April 30, 2010, and documents exempted under this chapter shall be preceded by a record entry that shall meet the requirements established in § 1823 of this title.
Such preceding record or note shall be made in just one (1) record entry as provided in the Regulations, and shall bear the signature of the Registrar.
History —Dec. 27, 2010, No. 216, § 6, eff. 45 days after Dec. 27, 2010.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 86 - Act to Streamline the Property Registry (§§ 1821 — 1831) › § 1826 - Presumption of correctness

Records made in accordance with this chapter shall be deemed to be correct. Any error shall be corrected pursuant to §§ 2001 et seq. of this title, known as the “Mortgage and Property Registry Act”; and the Regulations to Enforce the Mortgage and Property Act, Regulations No. 2674 of July 13, 1980, as amended, or any subsequent regulations.
History —Dec. 27, 2010, No. 216, § 7, eff. 45 days after Dec. 27, 2010.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 86 - Act to Streamline the Property Registry (§§ 1821 — 1831) › § 1827 - Fees

The fees included in the documents recorded in accordance with this chapter shall be deemed to be correct and automatically cancelled.
History —Dec. 27, 2010, No. 216, § 8, eff. 45 days after Dec. 27, 2010.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 86 - Act to Streamline the Property Registry (§§ 1821 — 1831) › § 1828 - Recovery and destruction of recorded documents

Documents recorded in accordance with this chapter shall be kept by the Property Registry for a period of two (2) years after the effective date of this act, provided that a record entry has been extended, as provided in § 1823 of this title. Once such period elapses and the record entry has been extended, the Registry shall keep such documents for an additional period of ninety (90) days before applying the provisions of Act No. 444 of September 22 [23], 2004, known as the Act that provides for the destruction of documents.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, documents concerning easements and restrictive conditions related to housing developments and horizontal property regimes shall be filed in the corresponding Property Registry Unit.
History —Dec. 27, 2010, No. 216, § 9, eff. 45 days after Dec. 27, 2010.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 86 - Act to Streamline the Property Registry (§§ 1821 — 1831) › § 1829 - Statute of limitations

Any claim against a notary that authorizes a document recorded by virtue of this chapter due to an error caused by or arising from a registration made in accordance with this chapter shall prescribe one (1) year after the extension and signature of such record entry. This statute of limitations shall not apply to acts that are fraudulent or contrary to the law.
History —Dec. 27, 2010, No. 216, § 11, eff. 45 days after Dec. 27, 2010.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 86 - Act to Streamline the Property Registry (§§ 1821 — 1831) › § 1830 - Savings clause

The provisions of this chapter are provisional. They respond to special and emergency circumstances, safeguard the effectiveness of mortgage principles, and shall prevail over any other conflicting law or regulation.
History —Dec. 27, 2010, No. 216, § 12, eff. 45 days after Dec. 27, 2010.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 86 - Act to Streamline the Property Registry (§§ 1821 — 1831) › § 1831 - Rulemaking authority

The Secretary of Justice shall have a term of forty (40) days after the approval of this act to adopt regulations for the implementation thereof.
History —Dec. 27, 2010, No. 216, § 13, eff. 45 days after Dec. 27, 2010.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 87 - Registry of Attachments in Favor of Commonwealth (§§ 1841 — 1847) › § 1841 - Registry of attachments of real property in favor of Commonwealth

It is hereby provided that in every one of the registries of property of Puerto Rico, a book to be known as “Registry of attachments of real property in favor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico,” shall be kept for every one of the municipal districts included within the territorial jurisdiction of the said registries of property, and in which books the certificates of attachment provided by § 507 of Title 13 shall be registered according to the order in which they are presented for registration.
History —Mar. 15, 1909, p. 92, § 1, eff. May 1, 1909.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 87 - Registry of Attachments in Favor of Commonwealth (§§ 1841 — 1847) › § 1842 - Form of registry books; index

The registry books provided by the foregoing section shall be uniform in all the registries of the Commonwealth, neatly bound and folioed and ruled in such a manner as to have separate spaces for the registration of the number of the case, dates of the presentation and registration of the certificate, showing the hour, the day, the month and the year of such registration, the description of the property, showing the name, location, area and boundaries of such property, the name of the debtor, amount due for unpaid taxes, penalties and costs, the date of the attachment and also the date of the certificate and of the cancellation of the same; and each one of said registry books shall have attached thereto an alphabetical index showing the names of the attachment debtors of the Commonwealth Treasury for due and unpaid taxes.
History —Mar. 15, 1909, p. 92, § 2, eff. May 1, 1909.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 87 - Registry of Attachments in Favor of Commonwealth (§§ 1841 — 1847) › § 1843 - Recording of certificate of attachment

Whenever a certificate of attachment of real property in favor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, shall be presented for registration in the proper registry of property, it shall be the duty of the registrar to present the same in the registry of attachments created by §§ 1841-1847 of this title, corresponding to the municipal district where the property attached is situated; and the registrar shall register the said certificate at once, making the proper entry in the index of the book. After the said registration is made the certificate shall be returned to the person presenting it, with a note showing the folio and the book where the entry has been made.
History —Mar. 15, 1909, p. 92, § 3, eff. May 1, 1909.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTY - Mortgage Law and Regulations (§§ 1-5 — 5005) › Subtitle 3 - Additional Provisions (§§ 1701-1721 — 1925) › Chapter 87 - Registry of Attachments in Favor of Commonwealth (§§ 1841 — 1847) › § 1844 - Cancellation of attachment

The cancellations of attachments for unpaid taxes shall be made and entered in the space reserved for such purpose, returning the certificate of cancellation with a note showing the folio and the volume where the entry has been made. The registrar, upon request of the interested party, may carry out said cancellation after six years from the extension of the note.
History —Mar. 15, 1909, p. 92; Mar. 8, 1988, No. 9, p. 53, § 2.