P.R. Laws tit. 5, § 1301
For the purposes of this chapter the following words shall have the meaning ascribed to them in this section:
(a) Garbage. — Means waste totally or partially derived from animal meat, including fish and poultry and other residues of any other type related thereto, resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of food, including carcasses of animals or parts thereof and the spoils of dead cattle and fowl or their viscera or entrails, it being understood, that in no case shall there be used as feed for swine or barnyard fowl, carcasses, parts, spoils or viscera of animals that have died from any infectious, contagious disease.
(b) Person. — Means the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any municipality, political subdivision, institution, public or private corporation, individual, association, partnership, or any other artificial entity.
History —June 14, 1962, No. 46, § 1; June 5, 1986, No. 37, p. 96, § 1.