P.R. Laws tit. 23, § 602
The following terms, whenever used or referred to in this chapter, have the following meanings, except where the context indicates otherwise:
(a) Authority. — Means the Metropolitan Bus Authority created by this chapter, which shall, for constitutional purposes, operate as a private enterprise or business.
(b) Board. — Means the Board of Directors of the Authority.
(c) Bonds. — Means the bonds, temporary bonds, refunding bonds, debentures, notes, provisional or interim bonds, receipts, certificates or other evidences of indebtedness or obligations which the Authority is authorized to issue pursuant to this chapter, but shall not include the debts or accounts incurred in the usual course of business for expenses of the Authority.
(d) Undertaking. — Means any piece or pieces of property, or combination thereof, real, personal or mixed, owned, operated, managed, controlled or used or intended to be owned, operated, managed, controlled or used by the Authority, in connection with any of its activities, including, but without limitation, any and all system or systems, terminal stations and buildings with offices and commercial premises, for its own use or for rent to other entities or persons, offices, equipment, supplies, fuel, energy, services, facilities, structures, garages and parking spaces — whether or not such spaces are used for parking the Authority’s own vehicles — plants, vehicles and rolling stock, together with all parts and appurtenances thereof, that are or may be used, useful or convenient in conducting or performing any of the activities or services usually performed by common or public carriers of persons or property or activities or services auxiliary or supplemental thereto.
(e) Federal agency. — Means the United States of America, the President or any department thereof, or any corporation, agency, or instrumentality heretofore or hereafter created, designated, or established by the Government of the United States of America.
(f) Holder of bonds =roor =it bondholder. — Or any similar term means any person who is the bearer of any outstanding bond or bonds registered or not registered to bearer or the owner, according to the register, of any outstanding bond or bonds which at the time are registered other than to bearer.
(g) Words used in the singular number shall include the plural number and vice versa; the masculine gender shall be regarded as inclusive of the feminine, and vice versa; and words referring to persons shall include firms, partnerships of all kinds, corporations, or any other [juridical] person.
(h) Intermediate capacity vehicle =roor =it minibus. — Shall mean a motor vehicle having a capacity to convey from fourteen to thirty passengers.
History —May 11, 1959, No. 5, p. 17, § 2; Aug. 30, 1961, No. 9, p. 346, § 1; July 23, 1974, No. 241, Part 2, p. 229, § 1.