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(a) Under the regulations that the Governor may promulgate, a sentence of confinement adjudged by a court-martial or other military court, whether or not the sentence includes discharge or dismissal and whether or not the discharge or dismissal has been executed, may be carried into execution by confinement in any jail or penitentiary under the control of any of the Military Forces of Puerto Rico or of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico designated to such effects. The persons so confined shall be subject to the same discipline and treatment as the persons sentenced to confinement by courts of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.\n(b) The omission of the words 'hard labor' from any sentence of a court-martial adjudging confinement does not deprive the authority executing that sentence of the power to require hard labor as a part of the punishment.\n(c) Wardens, prison guards and officials of the jails or prisons designated by the Governor, or by such person as he may authorize to act under this Code, shall receive the persons ordered into confinement before trial and persons committed to confinement by a military court and shall confine them according to law.

may authorize to act under this Code, shall receive the persons ordered into confinement before trial and persons committed to confinement by a military court and shall confine them according to law. No such warden, prison guard or official may require payment of any fee or charge for so receiving or confining a person.\nHistory —June 23, 1969, No. 62, p. 117, § 1103, eff. 90 days after June 23, 1969.