2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART IV - Navigation and Marine Trade (§§ 2101 — 3223) › Chapter 107 - Maritime Transit Authority Act (§§ 3201 — 3215) › § 3201 - Definitions

The following words and terms shall have the meanings stated hereinbelow, except when the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(a) Federal agency. — Means the United States of America, the President, any agency or department of the Government of the United States of America, or any corporation, agency or instrumentality created, designated or established at the present or in the future by the Government of the United States of America.
(b) Authority. — Means the Puerto Rico and the Island Municipalities Maritime Transport Authority.
(c) Specialized training. — Includes any basic or advanced training which does not require a license in medicine, including pre-hospital and rapid response care and handling of patients during emergency situations. This training includes first aid, use and management of automatic external defibrillators, ventilation assistance, management of patients with altered levels of consciousness (epilepsy, diabetes, cerebral vascular accident—CVA), management of patients in shock, among others.
(d) Department. — Means the Department of Transportation and Public Works.
(e) Maritime transit facilities. — Mean any tangible or intangible real, personal or mixed property, that the Authority owns, operates, administers, controls or uses on land or sea that are necessary or convenient for the transporting of persons and/or freight by sea, and all rights and interests thereon, and the development, construction, maintenance, control or operation related to maritime transportation, including, but without being limited to:
(1) Vessels and vehicles.
(2) Parking lots and structures, canals, stations, roofed passenger stops, depots or intermodal or multimodal centers, docks, piers, galleries and other facilities on land or sea that are necessary or advisable for the movement, anchoring, boarding, loading and landing of persons and/or freight by sea.
(3) Permits, approvals, offices, equipment, supplies, fuel, power, communications systems, movable inventory and other property, systems and facilities that are useful or convenient for the development, construction, control, operation or maintenance related to the transportation of persons and/or freight by sea.
(4) Any real or personal property that is located in or adjacent to the property described in the clause (2) of this subsection, that the Authority designates for any public or private commercial, tourist, mixed or industrial use directed to promoting the services offered by the Authority.
(f) Person. — Means any natural or juridical, public or private person or any agency, department, instrumentality, political subdivision or municipality of the Government of Puerto Rico, the United States government, or of any state [of the U.S.].
(g) Transportation plan. — Means the document that sets forth the public transportation policy drafted by the Secretary upon consultation with the advisory board regarding Puerto Rican transportation, and approved by the Governor of Puerto Rico.
(h) Secretary. — Means the Secretary of Transportation and Public Works.
(i) Maritime transportation. — Means the transportation service by boat that is currently rendered by the Ports Authority and that is transferred to the Authority pursuant to § 3213 of this title, and those others that may be included in the future as part of the services rendered by the Authority within the jurisdiction of the Government of Puerto Rico.
(j) Metropolitan Area Transport Authority. — Means the service rendered between Cataño-San Juan and the Acuaexpreso service.
(k) Island Level Transport Authority. — Means the service rendered by other facilities outside the metropolitan area, which includes the Fajardo-Vieques-Culebra service.
History —Jan. 1, 2000, No. 1, § 2; Aug. 26, 2004, No. 231, § 2; Aug. 4, 2009, No. 52, § 1, eff. 180 days after Aug. 4, 2009.