P.R. Laws tit. 18, § 1581
For the purposes of this chapter the following terms and phrases shall have the meaning set forth below:
(a) Agency. — Shall mean the conglomerate of functions, offices and positions that constitute all the jurisdiction of a nominating authority, regardless of it being denominated as a department, agency, office, committee, board, public corporation or instrumentality of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
(b) Committee. — Shall mean the Technological-Occupational Education Advisory Committee.
(c) Council. — Shall mean the Occupational and Human Resources Development Council as redesignated by § 8 of Reorganization Plan No. 2 of the Department of Labor and Human Resources of May 4, 1994, formerly known as the Technological Occupational Education Council.
(d) Technological-occupational education or Occupational education. —shall mean the systematic and formal process to provide each participant with the knowledge and experiences to develop the skills that will enable him to secure employment, retain it and advance in his working condition.
(e) Governor. — Shall mean the Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
(f) Strategic five-year plan. — Shall mean the duly planned development in a five (5) year period such as described in § 1588 of this title.
(g) Plan. — Shall mean the Implementation Plan, pursuant to § 1591 of this title.
(h) Chairperson. — Shall mean the person who chairs the Technological-Occupational Education Council, who shall be the administrator of the system.
(i) Program. — Shall mean the [major] effort carried out by an agency directed toward a specific goal and which responds to some legal requirements or to the initiative of the executives. It forms a service unit based on the clientele it serves and on the operating organization or structure.
(j) Secretary. — Shall mean the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources of Puerto Rico.
(k) System. — Shall mean the conglomerate of agencies, programs or operating units that, directly or indirectly, offer services related to non-university technological-occupational education.
(l) Operating unit. — Shall mean a part of the effort made within a program in order to attain the final objective or product thereof. The activities are usually conducted at the low or intermediate level of the organizational structure of a program or section.
History —Dec. 18, 1991, No. 97, § 2; July 23, 1998, No. 166, § 1.