P.R. Laws tit. 18, § 1081
The following terms and phrases in this chapter shall have the meaning stated below:
(a) Technical assistance.— Specialized service that provides advisory and technical support to libraries, as well as public and private entities, as part of a structured plan to change systems in areas such as policies, practices, and procedures to achieve inclusive assistive technology library services for persons with disabilities.
(b) Assistive technology.— Any type of equipment or service that can be used to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of persons with disabilities.
(c) Assistive technology device.— Any item, piece of equipment, or product system, whether acquired commercially, modified, or customized that is used to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capability of a person with disabilities.
(d) Higher education institutions.— Public or private entity that offers academic programs leading to at least an associate degree, or that otherwise attests or promises its intention to grant higher education degrees as established by the regulation to grant licenses to institutions of higher education in Puerto Rico.
(e) Person with disabilities.— Any person who has a physical, mental, or sensory disability that substantially limits one or more of his/her life’s basic activities; has a medical history or record of a physical, mental, or sensory disability.
(f) Puerto Rico Assistive Technology Program, attached to the University of Puerto Rico.— Entity created by virtue of §§ 831–837 of Title 8, whose principal mission is to promote systemic changes in order to achieve the inclusion and development of persons with disabilities by means of assistive technology.
(g) Inclusive assistive technology library services.— Services regularly offered by a library to any user on equal terms, which are adapted to the nature and needs of persons with disabilities under reasonable accommodation and assistive technology criteria, so they can be offered to such persons. The foregoing includes, but is not limited to bibliographic resources.
(h) Universities.— Higher education institutions, with an arts and sciences curriculum that, at least at the Bachelors and Masters Degree level, shows that:
(1) It has an institutionalized research and technology transfer component, both in arts and sciences;
(2) it has an institutionalized development, cultural advancement, and social responsibility component. These are both established by the regulation to grant licenses to institutions of higher education in Puerto Rico.
History —Apr. 15, 2011, No. 63, § 2.