2024 Laws of Puerto Rico
TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706)
Chapter 9 - Sharecropping Contracts (§§ 201 — 217)
§ 206 - Sharecropper’s obligations

The cropper shall be obliged to:

(1) Cultivate the farm, planting it [with] such crops as may have been agreed upon, or in default of an agreement, [with] such as may be most suitable according to the nature of the soil.

(2) Care for all such property as the landholder may have placed under his custody, with the diligence of a good father of a family, and to return it upon the expiration of the contract.

(3) Deliver to the landholder his share of the crops harvested.

(4) Notify the landholder, within the shortest possible time, of any usurpation or harmful change carried out or openly attempted by another against the property under contract.

(5) Return the property, upon the expiration of the contract, in the same condition as when received, except such things as may have perished or deteriorated by the action of time or other unavoidable cause.

History —May 4, 1931, No. 76, p. 466, § 6, eff. 90 days after May 4, 1931.