2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THIRTEEN - Taxation and Finance (§§ 1 — 33423) › Subtitle 1 - Governmental Finances (§§ 1 — 155) › Chapter 8 - Puerto Rico Public Corporation Debt Enforcement and Recovery Act (§§ 111 — 113nn) › Subchapter III - Debt Enforcement (§§ 113 — 113nn) › § 113jj - Notice of pleadings

(a) Service of any and all pleadings in a case under §§ 113-113nn of this title, arising in a case under §§ 113-113nn of this title, or related to a case under §§ 113-113nn of this title shall be sufficient if provided:
(1) By mail to the last known address or attorney of the affected creditor or other party in interest;
(2) by email to the email address provided by the affected creditor or other party in interest in any of such cases; or
(3) through The Depository Trust Company or similar depository.
(b) Service may be made within the Commonwealth and the United States and by first class mail postage prepaid or email as follows:
(1) Notices required to be mailed to an affected creditor or indenture trustee (or entity performing comparable functions) shall be addressed as such entity or an authorized agent has directed in its last notice of appearance filed in the particular case;
(2) if an affected creditor or indenture trustee (or entity performing comparable functions) has not filed a notice of appearance designating a mailing address or email address, the notices shall be mailed to the entity’s address, if any, shown on the list of affected creditors filed by the petitioner;
(3) if a list of affected creditors filed by the petitioner includes the name and address of a legal representative of a minor or incompetent person, and an entity other than that representative files a notice of appearance designating a name and mailing address that differs from the name and address of the representative included in the list of affected creditors, unless the Court orders otherwise, notices shall be mailed to the representative included in the list or schedules and to the name and address designated in the notice of appearance;
(4) an entity and the noticing agent may agree that the noticing agent shall give the notice to the entity in the manner agreed to and at the address or addresses the entity supplies to the noticing agent. That address is conclusively presumed to be a proper address for the notice. The noticing agent’s failure to use the supplied address does not invalidate any notice that is otherwise effective under applicable law;
(5) an affected creditor may treat a notice as not having been brought to the affected creditor’s attention only if, prior to issuance of the notice, the affected creditor has filed a statement with the Court that designates the name and address of the entity or organizational subdivision of the affected creditor responsible for receiving notices under §§ 113-113nn of this title, and that describes the procedures established by the affected creditor to cause such notices to be delivered to the designated entity or subdivision and the notice does not conform to such designation; and
(6) if the papers in the case disclose a claim of the United States other than for taxes, copies of notices required to be mailed to all affected creditors under this chapter shall be mailed to the United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico and to the department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States through which the petitioner became indebted.
(c) If, at the request of the petitioner, a party in interest with standing to be heard on a matter hereunder, or on its own initiative, the Court finds that a notice mailed within the time prescribed by these rules would not be sufficient to give an affected creditor with an address outside the Commonwealth and the United States to which notices under this chapter are mailed reasonable notice under the circumstances, the Court may order that the notice be supplemented with notice by other means or that the time prescribed for the notice by mail be enlarged. Unless the Court for cause orders otherwise, the mailing address of an affected creditor with such foreign address shall be determined pursuant to clauses (1) and (2) of subsection (b) of this section.
(d) The Court may, in its discretion, order specific noticing requirements for specific deadlines, hearings, and motions in the case, which orders shall supersede the noticing requirements in §§ 113-113nn of this title to the extent inconsistent.
History —June 28, 2014, No. 71, § 337.