2001

(a) Sugar factory.— Any natural or [juridical] person, public corporation, government agency or cooperative society who operates one or more sugar mills as owner, lessee or otherwise.\n(b) Sugarcane grower.— For the purpose of this chapter, any natural or [juridical] person or public corporation, including proportional-profit farms of the Land Authority of Puerto Rico, which send sugarcane to one or more sugar factories to be ground and processed into sugar.\n(c) Secretary.— The Secretary of Agriculture of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.\n(d) Guaranteed income.— The amounts mentioned in subsection (a) of § 2002 of this title for the fiscal years and dates expressed herein.\n(e) Income supplements.— The difference between the guaranteed income and any lesser minimum wage per hour prevailing by virtue of the legislation, mandatory decrees, collective agreements or work contracts in force, the last two as of May 31, 1972, whichever is the highest for the work performed during regular hours. The income supplements shall not be affected by any raise in wages bargained on and from June 1, 1972.\nHistory —June 29, 1969, No. 141, p. 462, § 1; June 7, 1972, No. 5, p.

med during regular hours. The income supplements shall not be affected by any raise in wages bargained on and from June 1, 1972.\nHistory —June 29, 1969, No. 141, p. 462, § 1; June 7, 1972, No. 5, p. 347, § 2; July 24, 1974, No. 245, Part 2, p. 236, § 1, retroactive to July 1, 1974.