P.R. Laws tit. 4, § 1184
To determine who the beneficiaries of a deceased member of the correctional population as a result of a labor accident shall be, the same standards that apply for the cases of other workmen or employees shall be used. In the absence of persons who, as a matter of fact, depend of the member of the correctional population at the time of his/her death, there shall be considered as dependents such relatives that depended on the deceased before he/she began to serve his/her sentence, if they qualify on the other counts and are needy persons. In the absence thereof, such other persons who although they never had depended on the deceased inmate, are indigent on the moment of his/her death, shall be entitled.
History —July 22, 1974, No. 116, Part 1, p. 501, § 24; July 18, 2001, No. 60, § 16.