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2024 Laws of Puerto Rico
TITLE TWO - Legislature (§§ 1 — 1015)
Chapter 13 - Revision and Codification of the Laws (§§ 221 — 229)
§ 227 - New editions, substitute volumes, revisions of titles, supplements, preparation and distribution

Universal Citation:
2 L of PR § 227
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(a) New editions of the Laws of Puerto Rico Annotated shall be prepared and published periodically as determined by the Clerk of the House of Representatives and the Secretary of the Senate and under their supervision, but in no case, more than once each decade.

(b) Substitute volumes shall be prepared and published periodically under the supervision of the Clerk of the House of Representatives and the Secretary of the Senate, provided that, in their judgment, the increase in the size of any supplement due to the volume of the laws and annotations makes its publication impractical.

(c) The titles of the Laws of Puerto Rico Annotated may be revised from time to time under the supervision of the Secretaries of the Legislative Bodies, in the order of preference that they consider advisable; and thus revised, may be presented to the Legislature in the form of a bill with a provision that specifically repeals, by citation, all the laws on which the revision is based, and it shall be accompanied by an extensive explanatory report of the proposed substantive changes.

(d) The Secretaries of the Legislative Bodies shall prepare and publish annually, under their supervision, cumulative supplements of the Laws of Puerto Rico Annotated containing all the laws of a general and permanent nature approved from the beginning of a regular session up to the following session, along with the amendments to the Constitution, the regulations of the courts, and the latest annotations.

(e) The new editions, substitute volumes, title revisions, and supplements of the Laws of Puerto Rico Annotated, authorized by this section, shall be prepared, sold, and distributed in the manner and way provided for the codified edition dealt with in § 225 of this title.

History —May 11, 1950, No. 395, p. 938, added as § 5B on June 4, 1954, No. 47, p. 270, § 2; renumbered as § 5 and amended on Dec. 22, 1999, No. 354, § 6, eff. 90 days after Dec. 22, 1999.

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