2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE NINE - Highways and Traffic (§§ 1-8 — 5725) › Chapter 2 - Uniform Signs and Advertisment Act of Puerto Rico of 1999 (§§ 51 — 56g) › Subchapter II - Specific Provisions (§§ 52 — 52d) › § 52 - Residential districts

(a) Any sign permitted in this section shall be subject to the compliance with the rules established in §§ 51—51 l of this title, and those in this section.
(b) No sign shall be installed in this district, except in those cases where a commercial, industrial, tourism, institutional, services or public permit has been granted for the premise or property, in which case, the rules regarding to signs shall be applied.
(c) More than one (1) sign shall be permitted on the building or premise frontage, and one (1) on the ground where permitted, and on both locations, the signs shall be installed parallel or perpendicular to the street.
(d) Permitted signs. — The installation of the following signs shall be permitted in residential districts:
(1) Signs identifying professional [or] home occupation uses, barbershops or beauty salons, permitted as accessories uses, which shall not exceed twelve (12) square feet in size, without illumination, placed flat against the wall that constitutes the building frontage and parallel to the public road.
(2) Signs identifying uses permitted in residential districts, except hotels, tourism hotels; identifying commercial activities permitted in Districts R-5 and RT-5; and commercial, institutional and service activities permitted in Districts R-0, R-1 and R-4 or in non-urbanized areas, which shall not exceed thirty-two (32) square feet in size, without non-intermittent illumination, placed flat against the wall that constitutes the building frontage and parallel to the public road. When the sign affixed does not identify the activity effectively, it may be installed on the ground at a height not greater than ten (10) feet, parallel or perpendicular to the public road.
(3) Signs for the sale or rent of real estate, on any of the building frontages, which shall not exceed thirty-two (32) square feet in size without illumination. Only one (1) sign per property to be sold or rented shall be installed, placed flat against the frontage parallel or perpendicular to the public road. In a vacant lot or piece of land, the sign may be installed on the ground within the property limits, with a height not greater than twenty (20) feet, measured from the ground level to the highest part of the sign, and an area not exceeding thirty-two (32) square feet, parallel or perpendicular to the public road.
(4) Signs identifying hotels and tourism hotels, which shall not exceed thirty-five percent (35%) of the area of any of the building frontages in size, with or without non-intermittent illumination, placed flat against the frontage parallel or perpendicular to the public road. Another sign identifying the hotel and its activities may be installed on the ground, parallel or perpendicular to the public road, with a maximum size of four hundred (400) square feet. The sign shall have a height not greater than fifty (50) feet, measured from the ground level to the highest part of the sign.
(5) Signs identifying commercial activities permitted in Districts R-5 and RT-5, which shall not exceed twenty-five percent (25%) of the total area of any of the building frontages in size, including doors, windows and show windows. It may have non-intermittent illumination, and shall be placed flat against the frontage parallel or perpendicular to the public road.
(6) Signs identifying residential developments or apartment houses, which shall not exceed thirty-two (32) square feet in size, without illumination and placed flat against any of the building frontages or on the ground. Signs on the ground shall have a maximum height of twenty (20) feet.
(7) Signs identifying commercial, institutional and service activities permitted in Districts R-0, R-1 and R-4, or in non-zoning areas, which shall not exceed twenty-five percent (25%) of the total area of any of the building frontages in size, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. In those cases in which the building or structure is distant from the public road and the sign installed does not identify the activity effectively, it may be installed on the ground at a size not greater than twenty-four (24) square feet, parallel or perpendicular to the public road.
History —Dec. 22, 1999, No. 355, § 17, eff. 60 days after Dec. 22, 1999.