P.R. Laws tit. 24, § 591
For the purposes of this chapter, and as used herein:
(a) Secretary. — Means the Secretary of Health of Puerto Rico.
(b) The Federal Act. — Means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, Public Law No. 845 of the 80th Congress (62 Stat. 1155), approved June 30, 1948.
(c) Surgeon General. — Means the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service of the United States of America.
(d) Person. — Means any individual, public or private corporation, political subdivision, governmental agency, municipality or municipal government, industry, partnership, associate, firm, company, estate, property, or entity.
(e) Waters. — Shall include lakes, harbors, straits, lagoons, dams, springs, wells, rivers, currents, brooks, inlets, swamps, small streams, channels, the sea, the ocean, and any other surface or underground bodies of water, whether natural or artificial, public or private, interior or coastal, or of fresh or salt water.
(f) Sewage, sewer waters. — Mean human and animal wastes, intestinal and others, dragged by water flowing from houses, residences, buildings, industrial establishments and other places, whether alone or mingled with surface or land waters. The mingling of industrial or other wastes with sewage or sewer waters shall be considered included under this term.
(g) Industrial waste. — Is any liquid, gaseous, or solid refuse, or a combination of all, resulting from any industrial, manufacturing, commercial or business process, or from the processing of any raw material or natural wealth.
(h) Others. — In connection with wastes, include garbage, residues, rotten wood, sawdust, filings, lime, ashes, offals, oil, dyes, acids, chemical substances and any other substance that may pollute or cause the pollution of waters.
(i) To pollute. — With reference to waters, means making them in any way noxious to human health, or to that of animals, vegetables or fish, or rendering them ill-smelling or impure, all according to the permissible standards of purity or impurity heretofore or hereafter established as provided herein. “Pollution” has this same meaning.
(j) Discharge. — Means the terminal of a sewer system, large or small, collective or individual, or of a discharge of industrial refuse or any other kind of refuse, where it emerges to be dumped into the waters.
History —May 1, 1950, No. 142, p. 378, § 1.