2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FIVE - Internal Security (§§ 1 — 3356) › Subtitle 1 - Generally (§§ 1 — 1973) › PART III - Fire Protection (§§ 311-322 — 342h) › Chapter 32 - Puerto Rico Firefighters Corps (§§ 331 — 331bb) › § 331 - Definitions

For the purposes of this chapter, the following phrases and terms shall have the meaning stated hereinbelow:
(a) Safety, protection, or fire extinguishing equipment or devices. — Include, but are not limited to, hoses, extinguishers, hydrants, smoke detectors, alarms, hose nozzles, emergency signs, lights and doors, as well as fire sprinkler valves and pipes.
(b) Commercial establishment.— Means any building, structure or lot used to retail or sell merchandise, to carry out business transactions or render professional services. These include, but are not limited to, restaurants, gasoline stations, shops, banks, barbershops, radio stations, television stations, supermarkets, hardware stores, drug stores, doctors’ offices and law offices.
(c) Firefighters Corps.— Means the government body whose obligation shall be, among others provided by this chapter, to prevent and fight fires, save lives, guarantee to the citizenry in general an adequate protection against fires, as well as to determine the origin and cause of a fire once it has occurred.
(d) Fire Chief.— Means the person charged with administering the Firefighters Corps.
(e) Firefighters Corps Personnel.— Means all the members of the Firefighters Corps whether they are classified by position or by rank.
(f) Industry.— Means any building, structure, or land that is used for operations of assembly, production, manufacturing, storage, packaging, or distribution of products, or in which any other industrial process is performed. Among these are included, without being limited to, factories, laboratories, printing presses, pharmaceutical installations, petroleum refineries, petrochemical plants, cereal mills, distilleries, bonded warehouses, thermoelectric plants, nuclear reactors, and installations for the disposal, processing or storage of toxic or hazardous materials.
(g) Hazardous materials.— Means any substance or material that has been identified by the Federal Transportation Department and is included under Section 172.101 of Subpart B of part 172 of Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations (49 CFR 172.101), which exceeds the maximum net amount per substance allowed to be transported in an air cargo vessel in a single package, pursuant to the dispositions of this regulation, and which complies with the requirements of hazard type, pursuant to Subparts C through J of Part 173 of Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations. Any other hazardous chemicals, as described in Section 370.2 of Subpart A of Part 370 of Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations (40 CFR 370.2), shall also form part of this definition.
(h) First aid.— Means any urgent therapeutic measure applied to victims of accidents or sudden illnesses in any of the following circumstances: asphyxia, heart attack, profuse bleeding, poisoning, burning, heat stroke and sunburn, fainting, and fractures, among others.
History —June 21, 1988, No. 43, p. 163, § 2; Jan. 2, 2003, No. 33, § 1; Aug. 4, 2009, No. 53, § 1.