2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FIVE - Internal Security (§§ 1 — 3356) › Subtitle 1 - Generally (§§ 1 — 1973) › PART IV - Retirement and Relief (§§ 361-374 — 406) › Chapter 41 - Pensions for Disability or Death in Line of Duty (§§ 361-374 — 387) › § 376 - Definitions

The following terms and phrases used in §§ 376—387 of this title shall have the meaning stated below, except when the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(a) Employee.— Shall mean any member of the Police, the Municipal Police, the Firefighters Corps, the Custody Officer Corps of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the National Guard, Marshals of the General Court of Justice, Investigating Agents and members of the State Attorney’s Office of the Department of Justice, the Rangers Corps, or Internal Revenue Agents, Special Investigations Bureau Agents, Superintendents of Correctional Institutions of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Corrections Administrator, and the Juvenile Institutions Administrator.
(b) Municipal police.— Shall mean the personnel attached to the Municipal Police Corps created by §§ 1061 et seq. of Title 21, with the purpose of assisting the Puerto Rico police in the tasks leading to maintain public order and protect the life and properties of the citizens.
(c) Member of the Police.— Means only the personnel who directly perform tasks aimed at maintaining public order and protecting the lives and properties of the citizens, and such other similar duties as are heretofore or may hereafter be imposed upon the Police of Puerto Rico as organized under Act No. 77 of June 22, 1956.
(d) Member of the Fire Corps.— Means the personnel of the Puerto Rico Firefighters Corps created by Act No. 158 of May 9, 1942, whose duties include direct intervention in the extinction of fires.
(e) Members of the Penal Guard.— Means the personnel of the Penal Guard created by Act No. 489 of April 29, 1946.
(f) Member of the National Guard.— Means the officers, noncommissioned officers and privates of the National Guard, as organized by Act No. 28 of April 12, 1917.
(g) Member of the Rangers Corps.— Means only such personnel that directly performs the work of protection, conservation, defense and safeguarding of the natural resources pursuant to §§ 1201—1210 of Title 12.
(h) Internal Revenue Agent.— Shall mean the Director of the Special Investigations Service of the Department of the Treasury and the personnel of said Department holding positions classified by the Office of Personnel as Internal Revue Agent and Special Internal Revenue Agent.
(i) State Attorney’s Office.— Shall mean the General Special Prosecutors I, II and III; Assistant Prosecutors I, II and III; District Prosecutors; Advocates for Minors; Special Prosecutors for Family Relations, Special Prosecutors with temporary appointments; District Court Assistant Prosecutor I and Court of First Instance Assistant Prosecutor, all known as members of the State Attorney’s Office.
(j) Agent of the Bureau of Special Investigations.— Means the personnel in charge of investigations of the Bureau, established by §§ 138—138r of Title 3.
(k) Superintendent of Penal Institutions.— Means the persons appointed by the Secretary of Justice for positions classified by the Personnel Office as such in the penal institutions of the Department of Justice.
(l) General Administrator of the Prison Industries Corporation of Puerto Rico.— Means the person appointed by the Secretary of Justice to hold the position of General Administrator of the Prison Industries Corporation of Puerto Rico, under the provisions of Act No. 505 of April 30, 1946, as amended.
(m) Deputy General Administrator of the Prison Industries Corporation of Puerto Rico.— Means the person appointed to hold the office of Deputy General Administrator of the Prison Industries Corporation of Puerto Rico, subject to the provisions of Act No. 505 of April 30, 1946, as amended.
(n) Correction Director and Deputy Directors.— Means the persons appointed in such capacity by the Secretary of Justice.
(o) Employer.— Means the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and its instrumentalities, excluding its political subdivisions.
(p) Administrator.— Shall mean the Administrator of the Retirement System of the Employees of the Government of Puerto Rico and its Instrumentalities, as provided in §§ 761 et seq. of Title 3.
(q) Board.— Means the Board of Trustees of the Employees Retirement System of the Government of Puerto Rico and its Instrumentalities.
(r) Salary or compensation.— Means the total cash remuneration earned by an employee for his services before any deductions whatsoever are made therefrom. For the effects of the members of the National Guard, the salary shall be deemed equal to the basic compensation received from the Armed Forces of the United States, for services rendered in Puerto Rico, by a serviceman of the same rank and years of service as the employee, on the date of his disability or death.
(s) Beneficiaries.— Shall mean the surviving spouse, while remaining in a widowed state; the unemancipated children less than twenty-one (21) years of age or pursuing studies, and disabled children, as long as their disability persists. The term “children” shall include adopted children and foster children towards whom the employee acted as their parent. In the absence of all of the above, the father and mother of the employee shall be beneficiaries.
(t) Children pursuing studies.— Means unemancipated children, by blood or adopted, and stepchildren toward whom the employee acted as parent, who are under twenty-five (25) years of age and are bona fide students taking a complete course in an accredited educational institution, and who do not hold remunerative positions, but depend upon the employee for their support.
(u) Marshal.— Shall mean the official attached to the General Court of Justice, acting as such, pursuant to §§ 521—525 of Title 4, “Judiciary Branch Personnel Act”.
History —June 27, 1958, No. 127, p. 300, § 1; May 31, 1972, No. 54, p. 124, § 3; June 4, 1983, No. 93, p. 228, § 1; Feb. 16, 1990, No. 1, p. 3, § 24; Aug. 7, 1998, No. 191, § 1; July 30, 1999, No. 174, § 1; Aug. 13, 2008, No. 260, § 1; Dec. 14, 2011, No. 244, § 1.