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The period granted to breastfeed or to express breast milk is hereby regulated by granting working mothers who return to work after enjoying maternity leave the opportunity to nurse their children for an hour during each full-time working day, a period which may be divided into two (2) thirty (30)-minute sessions or three (3) [twenty] (20)-minute sessions, to go to where the child to be breastfed is being cared for, should the company or employer have a child care center in its facilities, or to express breast milk at the place provided for such purposes in the workplace.In the case of businesses considered as small businesses in accordance with the size regulations of the Small Business Administration (SBA), these shall be bound to provide a period of half (1 / 2) an hour during each full-time working day for breastfeeding mothers to breastfeed or express breast milk which may be divided into two (2) [fifteen] (15)-minute periods. History —Dec. 16, 2000, No. 427, § 3; Nov. 6, 2006, No. 239, § 2.