P.R. Laws tit. 11, § 2a
The Manager of the State Insurance Fund shall extend, subject to such regulations as he may promulgate for such purpose, and by request of the interested party, the medical and hospital benefits provided by this chapter to persons appearing as employers under the State Insurance Fund who, as owners, sharecroppers or leaseholders, supervise and personally perform manual labors on their farms, in their shops, or small businesses, or who qualify as small-scale farmers according to the definition established to such effects by the State Insurance Fund Corporation in coordination with the Department of Agriculture, through the corresponding regulations; who sustain an injury in the course and as a result of their labor or work; Provided, That the Administrator may impose on employers covered by these benefits, or those who qualify as small-scale farmers, a per capita premium computed on the basis of the cost experience of the activity in which they are engaged; Provided, further, That separate classifications shall be kept for the said activities, and the experience accumulated on account of the operation thereof shall be kept separate from all other experience, for statistical purposes and for the promulgation of premium rates. There shall be excluded from the benefits of these provisions the employers that are principally engaged in supervisory, directive or administrative work. Upon the request of the employer or any person who qualifies as a small-scale farmer, coverage may also be extended under like conditions to the employer’s spouse and to the children who earn no wages, provided they are engaged in manual labor on the farm, in their shop or small insured business, and they pay the per capita premium imposed.
History —Apr. 18, 1935, No. 45, p. 250, added as § 2-A on Apr. 30, 1952, No. 160, p. 334, § 2; June 11, 1954, No. 60, p. 332; Sept. 18, 1996, No. 236, § 1; renumbered as § 2D on Sept. 8, 2004, No. 263, § 1.