P.R. Laws tit. 29, § 2061
(a) Sugar factory.— Shall mean any natural or [juridical] person, public corporation, government agency or cooperative association that operates one or more sugar mills as owner, lessee, or otherwise.
(b) Sugarcane grower.— Shall mean, for the purposes of this chapter, private farmers, excluding the Sugar Corporation, proportional-profit farms of the Land Authority, seed farms of the Agricultural Services Administration, as well as any other government instrumentalities engaged in the production of cane for sugar processing.
(c) Secretary.— Shall mean the Secretary of Agriculture of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
(d) Raw sugar average price.— Shall mean the price as established by daily quotations of ninety-six percent (96%) raw sugar of the “New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange” (domestic contract).
(e) Subsidy.— Shall mean the economic aid that shall be paid to growers to help them pay in part the minimum wages established under Act No. 96 of June 26, 1956, when the raw sugar annual average price used by the sugar factory to liquidate the sugar to the sugarcane growers is [eighteen dollars] ($18) or less a hundredweight. The amount of said subsidy shall be determined by the Secretary of Agriculture, as set forth in § 2064 of this title.
(f) Puerto Rico Minimum Wage Act.— Shall mean Act No. 96 of June 26, 1956, as amended, §§ 245—246m of this title.
History —May 30, 1976, No. 92, p. 271, § 1.