P.R. Laws tit. 17, § 159
(a) Any person who intentionally removes or destroys any card or notice of the Secretary which is affixed to a dwelling declared by the Secretary to be inadequate for residential purposes in accordance with §§ 155—160 of this title or any act or sanitary regulation, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars ($10) nor more than fifty dollars ($50), or by imprisonment in jail for a term of not less than ten (10) nor more than thirty (30) days, or by both penalties, in the discretion of the court.
(b) Every owner of an uninhabited dwelling which has been declared inadequate for residential purposes in accordance with §§ 155—160 of this title or any act or sanitary regulation, who leases or rents said dwelling or extends a lease or contract, or who permits any person or persons to occupy said dwelling for any purpose, without first making the repairs or alterations ordered by the Secretary, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100), or by imprisonment for not less than thirty (30) days nor more than ninety (90) days, or by both penalties, in the discretion of the court; and in addition, when he is once convicted, he shall lose all right to claim or receive any rent for said dwelling from the day on which he received the notification of the Secretary until the repairs are duly made.
(c) Any person who, knowingly and wilfully, moves to any unoccupied house which has been declared by the Secretary to be inadequate for residential purposes, in accordance with §§ 155—160 of this title, or any other law or sanitary regulation shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars ($10) nor more than fifty dollars ($50), or by imprisonment for not less than ten (10) days nor more than thirty (30) days, or by both penalties, in the discretion of the court.
History —May 7, 1941, No. 128, p. 848, § 5.