P.R. Laws tit. 29, § 203
The following phrases and words as used in this chapter shall have the meanings expressed below:
Contractor.— Includes any person or persons in charge, through an express or tacit contract, of the construction, reconstruction, modification, extension, repair or improvement of buildings, works or structures. The term “building, work, or construction” includes, but without limitation, houses, establishments and factories, roads, streets, bridges, viaducts, railroads and all sorts of communication ways, sewers, aqueducts and location of pile lines, canals, excavations, drillings, tunnels and dikes, construction and operation of ports and waterways, of airports and landing fields, of transmission lines and land-reducing works, drainage, dewatering and protection against floods. It shall also include the assembling or installation at the site of the work under construction of any machinery or apparatus; and, likewise, the dismantling, demolishing, or wrecking of said works, structures or buildings and the removal of apparatus or machinery installed therein.
Subcontractor.— Includes any person or persons who, as independent contractor, constructs any part of the building, work, or structure in charge of the contractor.
History —June 22, 1961, No. 111, p. 223, § 12, eff. 90 days after June 22, 1961.