P.R. Laws tit. 25, § 2077
(a) The units of the Military Forces of Puerto Rico receiving mobilization orders in cases so required by public safety or in cases of disasters caused by nature as established in this part shall be considered in Commonwealth Active Military Service.
There shall also be considered in Commonwealth Active Military Service such officers and enlisted men discharging any duty assigned to them when so specified in the orders issued to such effect. In all the above cases, orders issued ordering induction into Commonwealth Active Military Service shall provide everything pertaining to the transportation to be provided, reimbursement of expenses incurred and the compensation, if any, to be paid for services to be rendered.
The order issued to this effect shall provide for the above mentioned and may further provide, should the case be thus, for the compensation corresponding by reason of the service rendered.
(b) In the event that a member of the Military Forces of Puerto Rico dies while he is in or as a result of Commonwealth Active Military Service, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico shall pay his widow or in default thereof his legal heirs the funeral expenses actually incurred, but in no case shall such payment exceed the sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000).
History —June 23, 1969, No. 62, p. 117, § 226; May 19, 1976, No. 44, p. 117, § 7; Aug. 6, 2008, No. 163, § 1.