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Puerto Rico Legal Code

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For purposes of §§ 3517—3517b of this title, the following words and phrases shall have the meaning stated below:\n(a) Maternity service centers. — Includes delivery rooms, obstetric preparation or recovery rooms, or any place where women are given treatment during the gestation, childbirth or post-partum process, and have the pertinent permits of the competent Commonwealth of Puerto Rico agencies.\n(b) Care centers. — Every center for the care of infants between one (1) day and one (1) year of their birth.\n(c) Gynecologists. — Any doctor of medicine authorized by pertinent legislation and regulations to practice gynecology or obstetrics in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.\n(d) Mother’s milk substitutes. — Any food commercialized or otherwise introduced as a pertinent or complete substitute of breast milk, whether or not it is adequate for this purpose.\nHistory —Mar. 13, 2004, No. 79, § 2.