P.R. Laws tit. 21, § 890b

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§ 890b. Definitions

The following terms, wherever they may be used or referred to in §§ 890-890l of this title, shall have the meaning stated below, except where context clearly indicates otherwise:

(a) Agency.— Any department, bureau, committee, board, office, dependency, municipality, instrumentality, public corporation, political subdivision or any other government body of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

(b) Authority.— Culebra Conservation and Development Authority.

(c) Culebra.— The area lying between 18 degrees 15′ and 18 degrees 25′ north latitude and between 65 degrees 12′ and 65 degrees 25′ west longitude. This area includes the Island of Culebra and its keys, islets and surrounding waters.

(d) Departments.— The Department of Natural and Environmental Resources of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico created by §§ 151–163 of Title 3.

(e) Board.— The Governing Board of the Culebra Conservation and Development Authority.

(f) Person.— Any natural or juridical person, including any agency, as the same is defined in §§ 890–890 l of this title.

(g) Secretary.— The Secretary of the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources.

(h) Homestead.— Structure occupied as a main residence by one family or by one person who lives alone. There can only be one homestead for a specific family or person who lives alone. The home of bona fide residents shall be deemed as a homestead. A bona fide resident is that person or family that continuously resides in the residence owned by him/her during the entire year.

(i) Joint Report.— Document which establishes the philosophy, principles and rules relating to the transfer and administration of federal land exceeding the necessities of the Navy on the Island of Culebra and adjacent keys, submitted October 29, 1973 by the Governor of Puerto Rico and the United States Secretary of the Interior, to the Interior and Insular Affairs Committee of the United States Senate in compliance with a resolution of said Committee adopted June 16, 1971.

History —June 22, 1975, No. 66, p. 153, § 3; Apr. 23, 1990, No. 6, p. 56, § 1; July 15, 2013, No. 59, § 1.