Create the General Directorate of School Construction and Real Property
Congreso Nacional
- Decree: 125-2006
- Published: June 3, 2009
- Issuing body: Congreso Nacional
- Category: Administrative
Summary
This law creates the General Directorate of School Construction and Real Estate, a new department under the Ministry of Education responsible for planning, designing, and overseeing the construction, maintenance, and repair of schools in Honduras. It benefits students and teachers by ensuring adequate and functional educational infrastructure.
Considerations
Whereas it is necessary to properly organize the functioning of the units of the Secretary of State in the Office of Education, in order to make them functional and efficient in the fulfillment of the tasks and responsibilities that correspond to them.
Whereas upon the disappearance of the General Directorate of Construction and Maintenance of School Buildings in the year 1997, the Unit of National Property was created, with functions to maintain the registry and control of property, preferably furniture, equipment, and transportation units belonging to the Secretary of State in the Office of Education.
Whereas the Secretary of State in the Office of Education requires a General Directorate that shall be responsible for defining the policy on school construction; planning and directing the construction, maintenance, and repair of educational infrastructure in the country.
Whereas in addition to the foregoing it is necessary to create, in the capacity of a General Directorate, an administrative structure that shall be responsible for all matters related to educational physical infrastructure, inventory of school lands and buildings, establishment of priorities for construction and repairs of school buildings, norms, specifications and designs in school infrastructure construction, supervisions and inspections of projects constructed with national and/or external resources, plans and programs for investment in infrastructure (buildings, equipment, furniture).
Whereas the aforementioned General Directorate must be responsible for coordinating actions with national and international organizations, providing them with technical support and information for the execution of educational infrastructure projects.
Whereas with the creation of the General Directorate there will be the technical and logistical possibility to carry out projects whose investment requires the process of public and private bidding, and furthermore to make the procedures for contracting in the different projects more expeditious in order to execute the allocated funds in the corresponding fiscal period.
Whereas in light of the facts and grounds previously stated, in order to fully satisfy the interests of the Secretary of State in the Office of Education, it is necessary to make use of the human, economic, and other resources currently available to organize an independent unit of educational physical infrastructure separate from the Unit of National Property.
Articles
The benefits of this Decree are extended to motor vehicles imported for said Institutions that are located in the customs of the country.
This Decree shall enter into force from the day of its publication in the Official Gazette La Gaceta. Given in the city of Tegucigalpa, municipality of the Central District, in the Session Hall of the National Congress, on the third day of the month of June of two thousand nine. ROBERTO MICHELETTI BAÍN PRESIDENT JOSÉ ALFREDO SAAVEDRA PAZ SECRETARY EDNA CAROLINA ECHEVERRÍA HAYLOCK SECRETARY To the Executive Branch. Therefore: Let it be executed. Tegucigalpa M.D.C., June 2009. JOSÉ MANUEL ZELAYA ROSALES PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC THE SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE OFFICE OF FINANCE. Sanctioned in application of Article 216, Second Paragraph of the Constitution of the Republic. DECREE No. 125-2006 The National Congress, WHEREAS: That it is necessary to properly organize the operation of the units of the Secretary of State in the Office of Education, in order to make them functional and efficient in the fulfillment of the tasks and responsibilities that correspond to them. WHEREAS: That in the disappearance of the General Directorate of Construction and Maintenance of School Buildings, in the year 1997, the Unit of National Assets was created, with the functions of maintaining the registry and control of assets, preferentially furniture, equipment, and transportation units belonging to the Secretary of State in the Office of Education. WHEREAS: That the Secretary of State in the Office of Education requires a General Directorate that is responsible for defining the policy on school construction; designing, planning and directing the construction, maintenance and repair of educational infrastructure in the country. WHEREAS: That in addition to the foregoing, it is necessary to create, with the character of a General Directorate, an administrative structure that shall be in charge of everything related to educational physical infrastructure, inventory of lands and school buildings, establishment of priorities for construction and repairs of school buildings, standards, specifications and designs in school infrastructure construction, supervision and inspections of projects that are constructed with national and/or external resources, plans and programs of investment in infrastructure (buildings, equipment, furniture). WHEREAS: That the aforementioned General Directorate must be responsible for coordinating actions with national and international organizations, providing them with technical support and information for the execution of educational infrastructure projects. WHEREAS: That with the creation of the General Directorate there will be the technical and logistical possibility to be able to exercise projects whose investment requires the process of public and private bidding and furthermore to make the procedures for contracting in the different projects more expeditious in order to execute in the corresponding fiscal period the assigned funds. WHEREAS: That in view of the facts and grounds previously related, in order to fully satisfy the interests of the Secretary of State in the Office of Education, it is necessary to make use of the human, economic and other resources currently available to organize an independent educational physical infrastructure department separate from the Unit of National Assets. THEREFORE: IT DECREES:
Create the GENERAL DIRECTORATE OF SCHOOL CONSTRUCTIONS AND REAL PROPERTY, with its respective organizational and functional structure, reporting directly to the Secretary of State in the Office of Education.
Prepare the functions manual in order to establish the jurisdiction, functions and powers of the General Directorate of School Constructions and Real Property and describe and/or define the tasks corresponding to each position contemplated in the organizational chart of that department, as well as to absorb the technical and engineering positions that have been operating in the Unit of National Assets.
The movable and immovable property that currently belongs to the Unit of National Assets, as well as the budgetary allocations corresponding to its execution, and likewise its duties, responsibilities and commitments with third parties, shall pass to the new General Directorate of School Constructions and Real Property.
This Decree shall enter into force from the day of its publication in the Official Gazette La Gaceta. Given in the city of Tegucigalpa, municipality of the Central District, in the Session Hall of the National Congress, on the fifth day of the month of October of two thousand six. ROBERTO MICHELETTI BAÍN PRESIDENT JOSÉ ALFREDO SAAVEDRA PAZ SECRETARY GONZALO ANTONIO RIVERA ALTERNATE SECRETARY To the Executive Branch. Therefore: Let it be executed. Tegucigalpa M.D.C., October 2006. JOSÉ MANUEL ZELAYA ROSALES PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC THE SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE OFFICE OF EDUCATION. Sanctioned in application of Article 216, Second Paragraph of the Constitution of the Republic.
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