P.R. Laws tit. 15, § 1106
For the purposes of §§ 1101—1106 of this title, the following terms shall mean:
(a) Sportsperson. — Shall include athletes, judges, umpires, sports, technicians, delegates, and any other person certified as such by the Secretary of Sports and Recreation, upon prior certification by the local organization that is duly recognized by the international organization. With respect to the athlete, it is every person with a motor, mental or sensorial disability certified as such by the local organization that is duly recognized by the international entity, that he/she can to participate in one or more events or in one or more sports.
(b) Local organization. — Is the island entity duly recognized by the corresponding international organization for the practice of sports by disabled persons, pursuant to the sports criteria and classifications and rules for the practice of sports by disabled persons, and it is the accrediting body of the local organization.
(c) International organization. — Is the entity that establishes at an international level the sports criteria and classifications and rules for the practice of sports by disabled persons and it is the accrediting body of the local organizations.
History —June 27, 1987, No. 49, p. 167, added as § 6 on July 23, 1992, No. 38.