P.R. Laws tit. 22, § 164
The following terms shall have, for the purposes of §§ 164—167 of this title, the meaning hereinafter set forth, except as otherwise clearly expressed in the context, and the use of the term in singular shall include the plural and vice versa.
(a) Authority. — Means the Aqueduct and Sewer Authority of Puerto Rico.
(b) System. — Means the aqueduct system or the sewer system of the Authority, or both systems, as defined in § 141 of this title.
(c) Unit. — Means a dwelling or apartment with one or more bedrooms; each hotel room; each hospital room for a single patient (it being understood that rooms for various patients shall constitute a different unit for each two patients); for environmental remedy or clean-up projects, 400 gallons of water to be discharged per day in respect to the sewer system; and in the case of buildings or structures for other commercial uses or for industrial uses, a daily estimate of 400 gallons of water consumption regarding either system.
(d) Owner. — Means any person, corporation, partnership, association or cooperative, whether operating for profit or not. It also includes the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, its municipalities, agencies and corporations, and the United States, its agencies and corporations.
(e) Urbanization. — Means any segregation, division or subdivision of a tract of land that, for the works to be performed for the platting of lots is not comprised in the term of “simple subdivision” as defined in § 2 of Act No. 213 of May 12, 1942, as amended. The term “urbanization” shall include, for the purposes of §§ 164—167 of this title, developments for houses, of four or more lots, in urban or rural zones.
(f) Multifamily building. — Includes only those having four or more units, constructed in urban or rural zone.
(g) Environmental remedy or clean-up project. — For the purposes established herein, it means an action proposed or carried out, whether voluntarily or by order of any agency of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or the federal government, with the purpose of cleaning up, repairing, restoring or correcting damages inflicted to the subsoil, which places a water supply at risk of becoming contaminated or has been contaminated.
History —July 23, 1974, No. 170, Part 2, p. 4, § 1; Aug. 30, 2000, No. 248, § 1, 2.