P.R. Laws tit. 27, § 2201
For the purposes of this chapter the meaning of the following terms is as stated below:
(a) Executive agencies.— Includes the bodies and entities of the Executive Branch of the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, including public corporations, municipalities and the agencies included within this Branch.
(b) Aggregates.— Includes soil, clay, sludge, debris, muck, sand, asphalt compounds, rough or crushed stone, or any other analogous material.
(c) Concessionaire or public service enterprise.— Means any person, association, company, corporation, cooperative or organization of any other nature which, having obtained a valid authorization from the Public Service Commission hauls aggregates or provides towing services for pay using the public roads of Puerto Rico, for personal, industrial and/or commercial purposes in benefit of the general public or private persons.
(d) Enterprises engaged in the hauling of aggregates in motor vehicles.— Includes any person who, as a public carrier, owns, controls, operates or administers any motor vehicle used for transporting aggregates on any public highway.
(e) Operator.— Any duly authorized person who drives a motor vehicle on the public highways of Puerto Rico to haul loads of aggregates or to provide towing services.
(f) Person.— Includes natural and juridical persons.
(g) Public carrier.— Includes any person who offers to provide or provides its services for hauling loads of aggregates for pay on the public highways of Puerto Rico, and offers to deliver one or more of the materials included in the list of aggregates to the general public, or to provide persons, or who provides towing services for pay.
(h) Hauling of aggregates.— Includes any service related to the hauling of aggregates, including the receiving, delivering, lifting, transferring, diverting, driving and handling thereof.
(i) Motor vehicle.— Includes any mechanically driven or operated vehicle, tractor, truck, hauling, or tow truck which is used to haul aggregates or to provide towing services.
History —Aug. 6, 1996, No. 105, § 2.