P.R. Laws tit. 21, § 4704
Claims against municipalities for personal or property damages caused by the fault or negligence of the municipality, shall not exceed the amount of seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000). When damages are claimed by more than one person in a single cause of action or omission, or when a single claimant, is entitled to several causes of action the compensation shall not exceed the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($150,000). If the court finds the damages to each of the persons exceed one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($150,000), the court shall proceed to distribute or prorate said amount among the plaintiffs, on the basis of the damages suffered by each of them.
When a suit is filed against any municipality in accordance with the terms of this section, the court shall order that notice be given, by publication of edicts in a newspaper of general circulation, to all persons who could have a common interest, who shall appear before the court on the date specified in the edicts, to be tried jointly in order to proceed to distribute the amount of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) among the plaintiffs, as provided in this section.
History
—Aug. 30, 1991, No. 81, § 15.004.