By means of a handwritten endorsement on an arrest warrant, any magistrate may authorize the transmission of said warrant by telephone, teletype, radio-telephone, facsimile or any other electronic means of communication, and as of that moment, a copy of the arrest warrant shall have to be remitted to every law enforcement officer to whom said warrant was transmitted. Said copies shall be fully valid, and the officers that receive them shall proceed with them in the same way as if they had an original arrest warrant.The magistrate who issues copies of an arrest warrant for the transmittal thereof, shall certify to its exactness with the original, and shall send a copy of the arrest warrant and the endorsement placed thereon to the office from which said copies are to be transmitted, stating on the original the action taken by him/her. History —Jan. 10, 1999, No. 31, § 1.
Puerto Rico Legal Code