P.R. Laws tit. 25, § 913
The terms listed below, as used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings:
(a) Shopping center.— Defined as a private commercial property with areas for the parking of vehicles and service areas for loading and unloading, which houses a conglomerate of commercial establishments or offices.
(b) Establishment.— Defined as a shop, kiosk, office or any other locale engaged in the sale of merchandise, foodstuffs, products, goods, valuables, services and entertainment.
(c) Administrator.— Refers to the shopping center administrator or owner, be it a natural or a juridical person, or the representatives or agents authorized by either.
(d) Tenant.— Refers to any natural or juridical person who is the lessee, tenant or concessionaire of an establishment within a shopping center, or the authorized representatives or agents thereof.
(e) Person.— Refers to a natural person.
(f) Offender.— Refers to any natural person who, with his/her conduct or acts, violates the shopping center’s code of conduct, or whose behavior is detrimental to the rules, the property, the enjoyment and the rights of all other users.
(g) Users.— Refers to those persons present at the shopping center and/or at any establishment, whether visitors, consumers, suppliers or employees of the shopping center and/or its establishments, to carry out activities that conform to those which take place in shopping centers in our Island.
(h) Code of conduct.— Those rules adopted by the shopping center’s administration which establish norms relative to acceptable behavior and to other matters that are reasonably directed toward preventing inappropriate conduct and other activities which could impair the enjoyment or the rights of the users of the shopping center and/or its establishments, or which interfere with the nature or function of the shopping center.
(i) Nonadmittance warning.— Written notice issued by the shopping center administrator or any of its tenants to the offender requesting that he/she immediately leave the shopping center and/or an establishment, listing the reasons for which consent of admission into the shopping center or the establishment is being revoked, and the period for which he/she shall abstain from visiting said shopping center or establishment, as the case may be.
(j) Law enforcement officer.— Refers to any member of the Puerto Rico Police or to any member of the Municipal Police of the municipality where the shopping center is located.
History —Dec. 6, 2007, No. 179, § 2.