P.R. Laws tit. 17, § 1015
(a) Administration. — The Public Housing Administration created by §§ 1001 et seq. of this title.
(b) Administrator. — The executive official responsible for directing and managing a public housing unit, as defined in this chapter.
(c) Managing agent. — The natural or juridical person with whom the Puerto Rico Department of Housing and/or the Public Housing Administration have an administration and maintenance contract of the Public Housing Projects of Puerto Rico and who shall be governed by the terms and conditions of the contract signed among them, and the regulations of the Puerto Rico Department of Housing and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
(d) Self-administrator. — Public housing project administered by its own residents through a Board of Directors elected by the residents themselves. The Board shall be governed by the terms and conditions of a management contract and the regulations of the Department of Housing and HUD. Any change of a purpose agreed upon between the Department and the Residents.(sic)
(e) Affirmative measures. — One or more acts performed by the tenant of a public housing unit that may be reasonably interpreted as performed in order to avoid or dissuade the alleged criminal behavior of a member of the family unit or a visiting third party.
(f) Innocent third party. — Means any public housing unit resident being investigated for alleged criminal activity who has not participated, directly or indirectly, in the activity under investigation.
(g) Visiting third party. — Means any person who is investigated, accused, suspected, or convicted for criminal activity, who does not reside in the public housing unit under investigation for an alleged criminal activity, but has made one or more visits to said unit with the consent of any of the members of the family unit.
(h) Public housing unit. — Any housing developed with United States Government funds or Commonwealth funds, that is safe, hygienic and adequate for leasing to low income families.
Words in singular shall include the plural and vice-versa.
History —Dec. 4, 2001, No. 171, § 1, eff. 90 days after Dec. 4, 2001.