P.R. Laws tit. 3, § 182
In the event of the failure of the owner, agent or tenant of any property where a public nuisance exists to remove or abate the same within a reasonable time after the proper notification to perform the work has been served, the sanitary authorities are hereby empowered to remove or abate the nuisance at the expense of said owner, agent or tenant, and the party in interest shall be given due notice of the expenses thereby incurred, and shall reimburse the health authorities therefor. Any sums so paid by the sanitary officials for the removal or abatement of a nuisance shall be a lien upon the property from which removed, or upon which abated, and a legal claim against the owner, agent or tenant. This action shall not, however, relieve any such owner, agent or tenant from liability for the violation of the provisions of the sanitary regulations. The Secretary of Health shall file, in the Office of the Registrar of Property of the district in which the property upon which the lien attaches is located, a copy of the notice of expenses incurred in the removal or abatement of a nuisance, as herein provided, together with a description of the property from which the nuisance was removed, or upon which it was abated, which notice, from the time of its filing, as herein provided, shall be notice of the existence of the lien herein created to all persons.
History —Mar. 14, 1912, No. 81, p. 122, § 31, eff. Apr. 1, 1912.