P.R. Laws tit. 12, § 131
The following terms shall have the meaning stated hereinbelow:
(a) Arboriculture.— Discipline devoted to the study, care and management of trees, shrubs and plants.
(b) Municipal planting professional.— Professional certified for each municipality to practice arboriculture as defined in this chapter and in the Puerto Rico Planting, Cutting and Foresting Regulations, known as “Planning Regulation No. 25”, approved Mar. 16, 1996, as amended.
(c) Urban forest.— Biological community dominated by trees, including the related fauna that is found within the urban zone of a city or town, including urban-rural transition zones. Urban forests are of different scales and sizes such as, but without being limited to, linear, peripheral and patches. The ownership of the lands that compose urban forests, do not, mainly, have to be the property of the Commonwealth for forestry use as established in §§ 191 et seq. of this title, better known as the “Puerto Rico Forests Act”, but can also be private or municipal property.
(d) Department.— The Department of Natural and Environmental Resources.
(e) Linear.— Trees planted along a line of not less than seven hundred (700) meters.
(f) Patch.— Trees planted in a continuous manner in an area of not less than five hundred (500) square meters.
(g) Peripheral.— Trees planted along a periphery of not less than one thousand (1,000) meters.
History —Aug. 5, 1999, No. 213, § 3.