P.R. Laws tit. 10, § 720
Any innkeeper may, in a reasonable and adequate manner, cause any person to be removed from the premises of the hotel operated by him/her whenever such person shall, after warning, persist in violating any rule or regulation adopted pursuant to the provisions of § 719 of this title, or who has committed any act whatsoever that might be offensive to hotel guests and/or visitors, and/or that is or might be detrimental to the reputation or credit of the hotel, or that is or threatens to be detrimental to the business of the hotel, whether or not specifically mentioned in any rule or regulation. As used herein, the term “person” shall include, but is not limited to a guest or tenant of the hotel, as well as any visitors within the premises of the hotel.
An innkeeper who reasonably believes that he/she has the right to dismiss any person from the premises of his/her hotel shall first notify such person verbally or in writing that his/her presence is not desired in the premises of the hotel; and, in turn, such person shall be asked to leave immediately or at a specific time and date. If the person to whom such notice is given is a guest or a tenant who has paid in advance, the innkeeper shall, at the time oral or written request to depart is made, tender to such guest or tenant the unearned portion of his/her advanced payment.
The innkeeper shall deliver to such person a written notice that he/she shall leave the hotel within the term specified and warning him/her that if he/she refuses to do so he/she shall be ousted.
The innkeeper shall fill the blank space in said notice specifying if the departure is required immediately or at a later time and date, which shall be set in said notice.
Any person who remains or attempts to remain in a hotel for any period of time after being requested by the innkeeper either in writing or orally to depart therefrom at a specified time and date shall be deemed to be unlawfully on the premises of such hotel, and shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. In case of recidivism, the person shall be guilty of a fourth-degree felony.
If any person is unlawfully within the premises of the hotel, the innkeeper may call for the assistance of any Municipal or State police officer, and it shall be the duty of each member of the Municipal police department or the Puerto Rico Police, upon request of the innkeeper, to remove such person from the premises immediately by using only such force as the circumstances may warrant.
History —June 23, 1956, No. 85, p. 540, § 10, renumbered as § 11 on July 18, 1986, No. 151, p. 471, § 6; Jan. 5, 2012, No. 11, § 1.