P.R. Laws tit. 24, § 3620f
(a) Any person authorized to make an anatomical gift under § 3620d of this title shall make the donation by signing an organ, eye, and tissue donor card that meets the requirements hereinafter provided; registering electronically in the organ, eye, and tissue Donor Registry, in accordance with the provisions of § 3620w-1 of this title or other registry of any state of the United States of America that complies with the parameters of §§ 3620-3620y of this title; by stating their consent to donate in their driver’s license or identification card issued by the Department of Transportation and Public Works; or through a private document or donor card signed by two witnesses or through a public document sworn before a notary public. The revocation, suspension, expiration, or cancelation of the driver’s license or identification card does not invalidate the donation. Provided, however, that regarding cadavers under the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico that have been subjected to an autopsy under the law, the pathologist, forensic doctor, ophthalmologist, surgeon, or his/her assistants may remove the corneas, glands, organs, tissues, or other parts to be delivered to the Board in accordance with the purposes of §§ 3620-3620y of this title, provided that said removal does not interfere with the autopsy or with any investigation being conducted by competent authorities, or alters the post mortem physical appearance of the cadaver. In the case of corneas, they shall be delivered free of charge to the Eye Bank of the Puerto Rican Lion’s Club.
(b) The Institute of Forensic Science, the Board, hospitals, transplanting physicians, the forensic doctor or his/her assistant, the ophthalmologist, the ophthalmology resident, the Eye Bank or its officials are hereby released from civil and criminal liability as well as the recipient patient of the corneas of a deceased donor given that after the removal of the corneas it is alleged by any person that his/her approval or previous knowledge was required for the same.
(c) Every donee of tissue, organ or cadaver or part thereof, or of a body for clinical autopsy, and every notary before [whom] an anatomical donation document is executed, or the revocation of the donation of a cadaver or part thereof, shall remit a simple copy of the document in question with his/her signature to the Human Bodies, Organs and Tissues Disposal Board within a term of seventy-two (72) hours after the execution of the document.
History —Dec. 25, 2002, No. 296, § 8; Mar. 4, 2011, No. 26, § 3.