Constitución en Inglés

223 Corte Constitucional de Colombia Chapter III Municipal Regime A s the fundamental entity of the political-administrative division of the State, the municipality shall have the faculty to provide public services determined by law, build the public works required for local progress, organize the development of its territory, promote community participation and the social and cultural betterment of its inhabitants, and execute the other functions assigned to it by the Constitution and the laws. In each municipality there shall be a political- administrative body popularly elected for a four-year term and that shall be known as the municipal council, composed of no fewer than seven and no more than twenty-one members, according towhat the law stipulates based on the municipality’s population. This body may exercise political control over the municipal administration. A law shall determine councilors’ qualifications, disqualifications, and incompatibilities and the schedule of councils’ ordinary sessions. Councilors shall not have the status of public employees. A law may determine cases in which the councilors shall be entitled to allowances for their attendance at sessions. ARTICLE 311 ARTICLE 312