P.R. Laws tit. 29, § 564
As used in §§ 564—574 of this title, the terms hereinafter listed shall have the following meaning:
(a) Person.— Shall mean an individual, a company, partnership, association, corporation, manager, contractor, subcontractor, or the agent or employee of any of them.
(b) Fees.— Shall mean money or any valuable consideration, exacted, charged, collected, or received, directly or indirectly, or paid or promised to be paid, for any service or act described or enumerated in subsection (d) of this section.
(c) Employment.— Shall mean work contracted for, permitted, or agreed upon.
(d) Employment agency.— Shall mean any person or organization who, for a fee or without any compensation whatsoever regularly:
(1) Obtains, offers, or attempts to procure, employees for persons seeking the services of workmen, or employment for persons seeking employment;
(2) supplies workmen to render services under the direct or indirect supervision or the direction of persons seeking the services of workmen;
(3) through advertisements, either paid by it or by the employers, procures candidates for employment by other persons, excluding newspapers, radio, or television enterprises when publishing such advertisements in the course of their operations as such;
(4) through personal interviews, psychological or aptitude tests, occupational classification, or other analogous procedure, refers said candidates, to employers seeking their services, except when it renders said services in relation to employees or candidates for employment who are directly referred to it by the employers, or
(5) gives information by any means with respect to the place where the services of workmen may be obtained or the place where employment may be obtained, when attempting to perform any of the acts stated in clauses (1) through (4) of this subsection.
(e) Secretary.— Shall mean the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources of Puerto Rico.
(f) Department.— Shall mean the Department of Labor and Human Resources of Puerto Rico.
History —May 14, 1947, No. 417, p. 826, § 1; May 9, 1955, No. 29, p. 100, § 1; June 22, 1962, No. 91, p. 236, § 1.