P.R. Laws tit. 23, § 902
The following words or terms wherever used or referred to shall have the meaning hereinafter set forth, except as otherwise clearly expressed in the context.
(a) Administrator. — Means the Administrator of the Economic Stabilization Administration of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
(b) Chief of Weights and Measures. — Means the Director of the Division of Weights and Measures of the Economic Stabilization Administration.
(c) Weights and Measures personnel. — Means supervisors, inspectors, technicians and officials of the Division of Weights and Measures and any other personnel thereof.
(d) Division. — Means the Division of Weights and Measures of the Economic Stabilization Administration.
(e) Person. — Means and includes any individual, corporation, partnership, association, or any other organized group of persons or legal heirs or representatives of the above, the United States of America, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and any other government or its public agencies and divisions.
(f) Standards. — Means the standards (model units) of weights and measures which shall be used to enforce the purposes of this chapter.
(g) Weight(s) and/or Measures(s).— Shall be construed to import all weights and measures of every kind, instruments and devices for weighing and measuring, and any appliances and accessories associated with any or all such instruments and devices.
(h) Package. — Means commodities put up or packed in any manner prior to sale. Any unpackaged commodity, but on which there is marked a selling price based on an established price per unit of weight or measure, shall be construed to be a package.
(i) Authorized Public Weigher. — Means a person authorized by the Administrator through regulations to exercise the weighing and reweighing of packages or quantities for which he may charge the persons requesting his services, in accordance with the fees as may be established by the Administrator.
(j) Octane rating. — Means a qualificative term which expresses the antidetonant characteristics of motor combustibles and the standards from which these are derived.
History —June 27, 1968, No. 145, p. 420, § 2, eff. 90 days after June 27, 1968.