P.R. Laws tit. 18, § 1414
For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the meaning stated below:
(a) Administration. — Shall mean the Administration for the Training of Future Entrepreneurs and Workers.
(b) Agency. — Shall mean any department, office, bureau, division, instrumentality, public corporation or any subsidiary thereof, of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
(c) Administrator. — Shall mean the first executive officer of the Administration.
(d) Governor. — Shall mean the Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
(e) Federal government. — Shall mean any department, agency, division or instrumentality of the Government of the United States of America, its states, and the divisions or instrumentalities thereof.
(f) Participant. — Shall mean any citizen between the ages of fourteen (14) and twenty-nine (29) years of age, residing in Puerto Rico, who avails him/herself of the benefits of the Administration as an apprentice or assistant, to receive training, education, employment or services, subject to the provisions of this subchapter. It shall also mean the participants in special projects which are constituted by displaced workers, as said term is defined by the law or applicable federal regulations; or qualified disabled persons as defined in U.S. Act No. 101-336 (1990), known as the “Americans with Disabilities Act” (ADA), Section 3, clause 2.
(g) Volunteer. — Shall mean any private person, not considered as a participant, who renders services to the Administration.
(h) Hotel School and Tourism Advisory Board. — Organism that shall advise and make recommendations to the Administrator of the Administration for Future Workers and Entrepreneurs Training or an authorized representative of same, regarding the content of the curricula and programs to be offered by the Guánica Hotel School, pursuant to the needs of tourism activity in the southwest region of Puerto Rico.
The Board shall consist of nine (9) members: the Executive Director of the Tourism Company of Puerto Rico, who shall be the Chairperson of same; the Secretary of the Labor and Human Resources Department; the Secretary of the Department of Education; the Administrator of the Administration for Future Workers and Entrepreneurs Training; the Executive Director of the National Parks Company; the President of the Puerto Rico Hotel & Tourism Association; the President of the Puerto Rican Association of Travel Agents; the President of the Puerto Rican Inn [Paradores] Owners Association, or their authorized representatives, who shall have the capability, knowledge and decision making power to represent effectively the substituted official, and a representative of the tour companies and guides which shall be designated by the Governor out of three (3) candidates to be submitted by the group. The President of the Board shall convene its members according to the needs of the school, not less than two times (2) times each year.
History —June 23, 1985, No. 1, p. 595, § 4, Aug. 13, 1990, No. 34, p. 133, § 1; Dec. 18, 1991, No. 97, art. 15, § 2; Aug. 6, 1999, No. 224, § 6; Sept. 3, 2003, No. 259, § 1.