Appellate Court Confirms Decision to Deliver Data on Short-Term Rentals

San Juan – Five judges have already ordered the disclosure of a list of all properties registered to operate as short-term rentals in Puerto Rico to the Center for Investigative Journalism (CPI in Spanish). The Puerto Rico Tourism Company has until Feb. 8 to provide the information to avoid being imposed a daily and indefinite fine of $300, as San Juan Superior Court Judge Alfonso Martínez Piovanetti ordered during a contempt hearing held in January. A panel of four judges of the Court of Appeals unanimously confirmed the San Juan Superior Court’s decision validating the CPI’s information request sent to Tourism, on Friday, Jan. 26.