P.R. Laws tit. 5, § 372
No sugar mill [shall] refuse to grind the sugarcane of a grower or his/her successors or successors in interest, who has been a grower of said mill during any of the three (3) years prior to the date on which he/she offers said cane to be ground, and the mill shall give preference to them to grind their cane, over the new growers; Provided, That in those cases in which a grower has been a grower for two or more mills, the obligation of the mill shall be to grind the proportional part of the crop that said grower delivered to said mill to be ground during the last year he/she was a grower thereof.
In order for a grower to be entitled to change from the mill in which he/she grinds his/her sugarcane to another mill, he/she shall be bound to notify the mills thus affected of his/her intention to make said change no later than the 1st day of November prior to the grinding season in which he/she intends to make said change.
The mill shall be bound to grind the sugarcane of the new growers, unless the Department exempts the mill from such obligation after it shows the Department that the mill lacks sufficient capacity to assume the grinding of the sugarcane of said growers.
History —May 13, 1951, No. 426, p. 1138, § 3; Aug. 5, 1993, No. 43, § 10, retroactive to July 1, 1993.