Constitución en Inglés

217 Corte Constitucional de Colombia 14. To table a motion of censure with respect to the secretaries of the Office of the Governor for matters related to their official functions, or for ignoring the assembly’s requests or summons. The motion of censure must be tabled by one-third of the members who make up the assembly. The vote shall take place between the third and tenth days following the end of the discussion, with a public hearing of the respective official. Approval of the motion shall require the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the members of the relevant body. Once the motion is approved, the official shall be relieved of his/her functions. If it is voted down, no new motion of censure may be proposed on the same matter unless it is supported by new facts. The resignation of the official against whom the censure motion has been tabled does not prevent the motion from being approved in accordance with the provisions of this article. The lawwill stipulate the cases and the specific functions in which assemblies may delegate to municipal councils, powers that the law itself specifies. At any moment, the assemblies may reassume the exercise of the delegated functions. The law may establish for one or several departments powers and competences of administrative and fiscal management different from those stipulated for them in the Constitution, with attention to the need to improve the administration or provision of public services in accordance with the departments’ population, economic and natural resources, and social, cultural, and ecological circumstances. ARTICLE 301 ARTICLE 302