Executive Decree PCM-014-2018 through which the Secretariat of State in the Office of Tourism is created
Poder Ejecutivo
- Decree: PCM-014-2018
- Published: April 10, 2018
- Issuing body: Poder Ejecutivo
- Gazette: 34,612
- Category: Administrative
Summary
This law creates the Ministry of Tourism as an independent entity to direct tourism policies and promotion in Honduras. It benefits the country by promoting economic development through the protection and use of national tourism resources. It also requires shipping companies to contract with authorized companies for oil spill response services under a standard RESPONSECON contract.
Considerations
Whereas, in accordance with Article 245, numeral 11 of the Constitution of the Republic of Honduras, it is the responsibility of the President of the Republic to exercise the General Administration of the State, and among his other attributions is the power to issue Agreements, Decrees, and to issue Regulations and Resolutions in accordance with the Law.
Whereas, the General Law of Public Administration establishes in Articles 11 and 17 that the President of the Republic has under his charge the supreme direction and coordination of the Centralized and Decentralized Public Administration, who in the exercise of his functions, may act on his own or in Council of Ministers in accordance with what is established in the Constitution of the Republic and the laws.
Whereas, in accordance with Article 4 of the General Law of Public Administration, as reformed by Legislative Decree No. 266-2013, the creation, modification, or elimination of the Secretariats of State or of Deconcentrated Organisms or Entities can only be done by the President of the Republic in Council of State Secretaries.
Whereas, by Executive Decree Number PCM-001-2014, dated February 3, 2014, and published in the Official Journal "La Gaceta" on February 22, 2014, in Article 4, the Sectorial Cabinet for Economic Development was created. It also established that the administrative structures, personnel, and budget of the former State Secretariat of Tourism transfer to the Secretariat of Economic Development.
Whereas, by Executive Decree PCM No. 011-2014 dated May 3, 2014, the Tourism Sector was declared a Priority Sector for the social and economic development of the country, constituting this Declaration as a State Policy and integrating it as part of the most relevant Government Agenda.
Whereas, the creation, modification, or suspension of the Secretariats of State or of Deconcentrated Organisms or Entities can only be done by the President of the Republic in Council of Ministers.
Articles
Create the Secretariat of State in the Office of Tourism, which represents the Executive Branch in matters within its competence and has responsibility for the formulation, direction, execution, promotion, stimulation, and evaluation of policies and activities relating to Tourism, as an economic activity that promotes the development of the Country, through the conservation, protection, and rational use of national tourism resources.
Its administrative structure shall be established by means of Executive Agreement.
This Executive Decree enters into force on the day of its publication in the Official Gazette of the Republic "La Gaceta". Done in Cayos Cochinos, on the twenty-second (22) day of the month of March of the year two thousand eighteen (2018). LET IT BE COMMUNICATED AND PUBLISHED JUAN ORLANDO HERNANDEZ ALVARADO CONSTITUTIONAL PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC JORGE RAMÓN HERNÁNDEZ ALCERRO GENERAL COORDINATING SECRETARY OF GOVERNMENT EBAL JAIR DÍAZ LUPIAN SECRETARY OF STATE OF THE PRESIDENCY HÉCTOR LEONEL AYALA ALVARENGA SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE OFFICES OF JUSTICE, GOVERNANCE AND DECENTRALIZATION MARÍA DOLORES AGÜERO LARA SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE OFFICES OF FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION REINALDO ANTONIO SÁNCHEZ RIVERA SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE OFFICES OF DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL INCLUSION ARNALDO CASTILLO FIGUEROA SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE OFFICE OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ROBERTO ANTONIO PINEDA RODRÍGUEZ SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE OFFICES OF INFRASTRUCTURE AND PUBLIC SERVICES, BY LAW JULIÁN PACHECO TINOCO SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE OFFICE OF NATIONAL SECURITY FREDY DIAZ ZELAYA SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE OFFICE OF NATIONAL DEFENSE OCTAVIO SANCHEZ MIDENCE SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE OFFICE OF HEALTH MARCIAL SOLIS PAZ SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE OFFICE OF EDUCATION CARLOS ALBERTO MADERO ERAZO SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE OFFICES OF LABOR AND SOCIAL SECURITY SANTIAGO RUÍZ CABUS SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE OFFICES OF AGRICULTURE AND LIVESTOCK JOSÉ ANTONIO GALDAMEZ FUENTES SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE OFFICES OF NATURAL RESOURCES, ENVIRONMENT AND MINES ROCIO IZABEL TÁBORA MORALES SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE OFFICE OF FINANCE KARLA EUGENIA CUEVA AGUILAR SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE OFFICE OF HUMAN RIGHTS ROBERTO ANTONIO ORDÓNEZ WOLFOVICH SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE OFFICE OF ENERGY
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