P.R. Laws tit. 16, § 4251
Any person who opens or operates a commercial establishment, bar, shop, club, house, apartment, depot, barracks, or pavilion for the dispensing, sale, traffic, or free consumption of spirits, distillates, wines, ferments, or alcoholic beverages, from midnight of the day preceding an election until nine o’clock in the evening on the day it is held, shall incur a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment for a term not to exceed ninety (90) days or a fine of five thousand dollars ($5,000), or both penalties, at the discretion of the court.
Restaurants and bars in cruise ships and commercial establishments in hotels, inns, and condo-hotels certified by the Puerto Rico Tourism Company, are hereby exempted from the aforementioned provision when such establishments are part of the services or amenities they offer their guests or visitors and participants of conventions, and when the sale, dispensing, or distribution of alcoholic beverages is conducted for consumption within the confines of the hotel, inn, condo-hotel or cruise ship. Commercial establishments that operate within the duty-free zones of ports and airports of the Puerto Rico Ports Authority are also exempted, provided that the sale of alcoholic beverages is for delivery to the buyer after he/she has boarded the airplane or ship.
History —June 1, 2011, No. 78, § 12.021.