P.R. Laws tit. 17, § 1001
For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms and phrases shall have the following meaning:
(a) Administration. — Shall mean the Puerto Rico Public Housing Administration created through this chapter.
(b) Agency. — Shall mean any department, office, bureau, division, board, commission, administration, public corporation or its subsidiaries, instrumentalities of the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and of the United States of America, excluding municipalities, the Judiciary Branch and the Legislative Branch.
(c) Administrator. — Shall mean the highest level executive official of the Administration with the responsibility of organizing, directing and executing all its functions and duties.
(d) Department. — Shall mean the Department of Housing of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, as created by §§ 441 et seq. of Title 3, its programs, services, offices, dependencies and units.
(e) Board. — Shall mean the Public Housing Administration Governing Board of Puerto Rico.
(f) Person. — Shall mean every natural or juridical profitable or nonprofit entity that includes, but is not to be understood as a limitation, a partnership, association, firm, institution, entity, consortium, foundation, corporation, cooperative, or group of persons.
(g) Secretary. — Shall mean the Secretary of the Department of Housing of Puerto Rico.
(h) Public housing. — Shall mean any housing unit developed with funds from the Government of the United States and/or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, which is safe, healthful and adequate to be rented to low income families.
History —Aug. 17, 1989, No. 66, p. 282, § 2; Jan. 10, 2003, No. 71, § 1.