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Title Class Number Date Published (Date) Summary
- Resolution 4-99 23 March 1999 Diario de Centro America Number:Vol. CCLXI, No. 34 (16 April 1999) Resolution issued by the Congress of the Republic 4-99 of 23 March 1999 points out that the institution supports and stresses that the judiciary and the Supreme Court of Justice must punish any public official of any rank that infringes upon the law. (5 provisions; p. 2)
- Governmental Accord 602-98 09 September 1998 Diario de Centro America Number:Vol. CCLX, No. 20 (03 November 1998) Governmental Accord 602-98 of 9 September 1998 contains the Organic Law of the Non-Judicial Court of the Armed Forces of Guatemala. Covers its organization and integration. Points out the activities included in procedures: hearings, recourses of impugment, resolutions, and other dispositions of the proceedings. Repeals Governmental Accord of 19 September 1938, that contains the Organic Law of the Non-Judicial Court of the Armed Forces. (56 provisions; pp. 2-4)
- Decree of the Congress 8-97 29 January 1997 Diario de Centro America Number:Vol 255,No 78 (31 January 1997) Decree of the Congress 8-97 of 29 January 1997 approves the Law of Integrity and Responsibilities of Public Officers and Employees. Repeals Decree 89-96 of the Congress of the Republic. (38 provisions; pp. 2134-2136)
- Decree 89-96 13 November 1996 Diario de Centro America (13 November 1996) Decree 89-96 of 13 November 1996 approves the Law of Integrity and Responsibilities ("la Ley de Probidad y Responsibilidades") which aims to prevent, prosecute, and sanction illegal enrichment or crimes against the public and interests of the State. Article 2 identifies officials who are subject to these provisions and they include dignitaries, public employees, members of directing boards, managers, administrators, and other public officials. Article 3 defines the extent of public patrimony. Repeals Presidential Decree 203 of 14 January 1955 and its amendments; and Legislate Decree 1547 of 25 May 1928 and its amendments. (45 provisions; pp. 737- 740)
- Governmental Accord 140-87 06 March 1987 Diario de Centro America (09 March 1987) Governmental Accord 140-87 of 3 June 1987, creates the "Departamento de Control Administrativa," the Department of Administrative Control, as a dependency of the office of the president to investigate the management of the national treasury and to inform the president of any act or omission that can be construed as an act of corruption in the operation of public administration. (4 provisions; p. 1741).

 

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