P.R. Laws tit. 5, § 4595
Common elements are those which belong to the cooperative and are not subject to individual ownership by the member-owners.
In multi-family structures the general elements shall be the following:
(a) The offices of the cooperative, community centers and all areas reserved for recreational activities.
(b) The foundations, framing walls and load-bearing walls, roofs, corridors, lobbies, stairs, and entrances or exits.
(c) Projection, this being understood as the right to project vertically.
(d) Patios, basements and gardens, except for those located within the area of a housing unit.
(e) The areas destined to accommodate doormen, persons in charge and access control guard stations.
(f) Locations or facilities for central services, such as power, lighting, gas, hot and cold water, refrigeration, cisterns, tanks and water pumps, and others of similar nature.
(g) Elevators, waste incinerators and, in general, all devices or facilities that exist for the common good.
(h) All areas reserved for parking.
(i) All areas reserved for business.
(j) The land, when it is not the property of another, this being a matter of surface rights, the leasing or usufruct in perpetuity in favor of the cooperative or otherwise its use and enjoyment is transferred to the cooperative, but without the transfer of ownership rights.
(k) All else which is reasonably for the common use of the real property or necessary for its existence, conservation, security and adequate use and enjoyment.
The common elements in single family housing project shall be those provided in the general rules, the articles of incorporation and the bylaws of the cooperative.
History —Sept. 1, 2004, No. 239, § 35A.5.