P.R. Laws tit. 17, § 1491
For purposes of this chapter, the following terms and phrases shall have the meaning stated hereinbelow:
(a) Elderly person.— Refers to any person who is sixty (60) years of age or older, whose income is within the limits established by the Secretary of Housing through regulations to participate in the program, which may be equal to or more liberal, but never more restrictive than those established by the federal government.
(b) Monthly income.— Shall mean one twelfth (1 / 1 2) of the total yearly income of the person or family.
(c) New construction.— Shall mean any individual or collective housing whose construction begins after the effective date of this act and is certified by the Department of Housing as a participant of this program.
(d) Existing housing.— Means any individual or collective housing that has been built prior to the effective date of this act, and which the Department of Housing deems acceptable under the program created by this chapter.
(e) Domiciliary care system.— Shall mean the service area which provides shelter, food and outpatient medical care.
(f) Nursing care service.— Shall mean the service area that provides shelter to convalescent veterans, who neither suffer from any acute disease nor need hospital care, but require intermediate nursing care and other medical care related thereto.
(g) Existing housing.— Is any single or collective housing built before this act became effective, and deemed acceptable by the Department of Housing under the program created by this chapter.
(h) Veteran.— Shall mean any person who is a bona fide resident of Puerto Rico and a veteran of the Armed Forces of the United States of America pursuant to the federal laws in effect.
(i) Veteran’s State House.— Any collective housing built pursuant to Public Law No. 88-450 of August 19, 1964, as amended, known as the “Nursing Home Care”.
(j) Lessor.— Any person, persons, or corporative juridical entity that own and/or operate one or several housing projects qualified by the Department of Housing to participate in the “Housing Rental and Improvements Subsidy Program for Low-Income Elderly Persons” created by this chapter.
(k) Department.— The Department of Housing of the Government of Puerto Rico.
(l) Secretary.— The Secretary of the Department of Housing of the Government of Puerto Rico.
(m) Housing project.— Projects qualified by the Department of Housing to participate in the Housing Rental and Improvements Subsidy Program for Low-Income Elderly Persons.
History —Aug. 31, 1996, No. 173, § 2; Sept. 8, 2000, No. 393, § 2; Apr. 11, 2002, No. 53, § 1; Sept. 29, 2012, No. 293, § 1.