P.R. Laws tit. 10, § 2301
For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meaning set forth below:
(a) Person.— Any natural person, corporation, society, association, cooperative or any other group of persons, their legal heirs or representatives, and any entity, instrumentality, public corporation or municipality.
(c) Student.— Anyone who attends a public or private high level post-graduate or technological educational institution acredited by the Council on Higher Education or by the General Education Council, as a student.
(d) License.— The permit that authorizes a person to operate a student boarding house business including a provisional, temporary or permanent permit.
(e) Department.— Department of Consumer Affairs.
(f) Secretary.— The Secretary of the Department of Consumer Affairs.
(g) Factors and Criteria that serve as guidelines for the fixing of reasonable rental rates [sic].
(b) Student boarding house business. — Shall mean any housing unit used to lodge one or more students for pay, be it rent or any of the basic services such as water, electricity, telephone with or without board. This definition shall include, but not be limited to, a club house, a guest house, furnished guest houses, rooms and dorms. The property leased to at least one student at the postsecondary level shall not be deemed a student boarding house business unless the owner resides in the same or when the housing unit is leased to less than three (3) students at postsecondary level, even though the owner does not reside in the same. A housing unit shall be understood to be the establishments, buildings or that part of the latter (additional floors, duplexes or apartments) used as residential lodgings and that have the corresponding permits issued by the Regulations and Permits Administration.
History —Aug. 22, 1990, No. 48, p. 196, § 2; June 14, 2000, No. 99, § 1; Sept. 14, 2004, No. 276, § 1.