P.R. Laws tit. 31, § 4055
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If, during the lease, it is necessary to make any urgent repairs in the thing leased which cannot be postponed until the expiration thereof, the lessee shall be obliged to permit the work, even though it be very annoying to him, and even if during such repairs he may be deprived of a part of the estate.
If the repairs should last more than forty (40) days, the price of the lease shall be reduced in proportion to the time and to the part of the estate of which the lessee is deprived.
If the work should be of such nature that the part which the lessee and his family require for a dwelling becomes uninhabitable, he may rescind the contract.
History —Civil Code, 1930, § 1448.