Constitución en Inglés

224 constituteproject.org Colombia 2021 A councilor’s acceptance of any public employment constitutes a cause for automatic removal from office. Councils have the following faculties: 1. To regulate the functions and efficient delivery of the services for which the municipality is responsible. 2. Toadopt appropriateplans andprograms of economic and social development and of public works. 3. To authorize the mayor to make contracts and temporarily exercise specific functions of the council. 4. To approve local taxes and expenditures in accordance with the Constitution and the law. 5. To dictate organic budgetary regulations and issue the annual budget of revenues and expenditures. 6. To determine the structure of the municipal administration and the functions of its dependencies, and the wage scales of the various categories of employees; to create, at the initiative of the mayor, public institutions and industrial or commercial enterprises and authorize the formation of public-private enterprises. 7. To regulate land use and, within the limits determined by law, oversee and control the activities connected with the construction and sale of buildings intended for housing. 8. To appoint the municipal representative ARTICLE 313