2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIVE - Agriculture (§§ 1 — 4706) › Chapter 17 - Sugar (§§ 371 — 420g) › Subchapter I - Sugar Act of Puerto Rico (§§ 371 — 390) › § 371 - Definitions

(a) Grower (colono). — For the purposes of §§ 371—405 of this title, “grower” (colono) shall be understood to mean every natural or juridical person, or public corporation, that delivers sugarcane to a sugar mill where said cane is to be ground.
(b) Central. — Shall be understood to mean any mill engaged in the manufacture of sugar, by a natural or juridical person, public corporation or government agency; Provided, That in those cases where a natural or juridical person, public corporation or government agency owns or operates, as owner, lessee or otherwise, more than one sugar mill, each one of said mills constitutes a central for the purposes of §§ 371—405 of this title.
(c) Juridical person. — For the purposes of §§ 371—405 of this title, shall refer to private or public corporations, limited companies, associations, partnerships, joint stock companies, voluntary associations (including common ownerships of property, business trusts, Massachusetts trusts, common law trusts, and any other form of corporate organization or any other organization, partnership, or entity created for the purpose of carrying out transactions or attaining certain specific objectives, and which continue to exist regardless of changes in their membership or among the persons participating in them, and whose affairs are managed by a single individual, a committee, a board, or any other group acting in a representative capacity and any other association which is a juridical person. The word “corporation” or “association” shall include any association or organization, or corporate association or organization, whether incorporated, organized, or constituted in any state of the United States, in a foreign country, or in Puerto Rico. The term “juridical or artificial person” shall include all partnerships, regardless of their form, kind, denomination, character, or nature, and shall include cooperatives.
(d) First extraction juice. — Shall be understood to mean the juice extracted by the first two rollers, that in themselves constitute the first unit of the mill; Provided, That when the first unit of the mill is constituted by three (3) rollers, the first extraction juice shall be that extracted by the top roller and the cane roller without allowing this juice to be mixed with that extracted by the top roller and the bagasse roller, and without applying the reduction factor at all in any case, to the analytical result of the first juice extracted unless the sugarcane that yields such juices has been submitted to some washing and cleaning process or any other process immediately before grinding that affects the analysis of such juice, in which case, the mill shall make the corresponding adjustments to the juice analysis, upon the express authorization of the Department of Agriculture.
(e) Department. — Means the Department of Agriculture.
History —May 13, 1951, No. 426, p. 1138, § 2; June 12, 1961, No. 38, p. 73; July 30, 1974, No. 259, Part 2, p. 296, § 1; Aug. 5, 1993, No. 43, § 9, retroactive to July 1, 1993.