P.R. Laws tit. 8, § 551
The following phrases and terms shall have the meaning expressed herein:
(a) Administration.— Means the Juvenile Institutions Administration established by this chapter.
(b) Administrator.— Means the Administrator of the Juvenile Institutions Administration.
(c) Juvenile institutions or institutions.— Means those residential institutions where minors are detained while the adjudication or disposition of their case is pending in court; treatment centers operated by the Department of the Family Assistant [Secretariat] for Social Treatment Centers where minors are placed in order to receive evaluation, diagnostic and rehabilitation services after the disposition of the case by the court, and those similar facilities established and operated by the Administration in the future.
(d) Secretary.— Means the Secretary of the Department of Correction and Rehabilitation.
(e) Department.— Means the Department of Correction and Rehabilitation.
(f) Clientele.— Means any minor detained pursuant to a court order and confined in a Detention Center and any minor whose custody has been conferred by the court to the Juvenile Institutions Administration because he has incurred one or more violations. It also includes every transgressing minor subject to a conditional dictating measure and to the supervision of the Administration.
(g) [Repealed. Act May 1, 1997, No. 12, § 2, eff. May 1, 1997.]
History —Aug. 5, 1988, No. 154, p. 704, § 2; Aug. 12, 1995, No. 187, § 1; May 1, 1997, No. 12, § 2, 7.