1368 OF 2009

(December 29)

Official Journal No. 47.577 of 29 December 2009

CONGRESS OF THE REPUBLIC

By means of which Articles 66 and 67 of Law 136 of 1994 are reformed and other provisions are dictated.

COLOMBIA CONGRESS

DECRETA:

ARTICLE 1o. Article 66 of Law 136 of 1994 will remain so:

Article 66. Clearing of fees. Taking into account the categorization set out in Law 617 of 2000, the value of the fees for each session to be attended by the councillors will be the one indicated in the following table:

	Fees per Session
Special	$347,334
First	$294,300
Second	$212,727
Third	$170.641
Fourth	$142,748
Fifth	$114,967
Sixth	$86,862

From January 1, 2010, each year the fees mentioned in the table above will be increased by a percentage equivalent to the CPI variation during the year immediately preceding the year.

In special category, first and second municipalities, one hundred and fifty (150) ordinary sessions and up to forty (40) extraordinary sessions per year will be paid. In the municipalities of category three to sixth, seventy (70) ordinary sessions and up to twenty (20) extraordinary sessions per year will be paid annually.

PARAGRAFO 1o. The fees are incompatible with any allocation from the public treasury of the respective municipality, except for those originating in pension or pension substitutions and other exceptions. provided for in Law 4of 1992.

PARAGRAFO 2o. The city council members of the city of Bogota are excepted from this article, because the Decree-Law 1421 of 1993 regulates the matter.

ARTICLE 2o. Article 67 of Law 136 of 1994, will remain so:

Article 67. Transport recognition. Recognise the value of transport, during plenary and commission sessions, to councillors who reside in rural areas and must move from and to the municipal headland, the main venue for the operation of corporations. municipal. These transport costs shall be assumed, in the case of municipalities belonging to fourth, fifth and sixth categories, from the budget section of the central sector of the municipality, and shall not be taken into account as operating expenditure of the administration, for the calculation of the operating cost limit indicators set by Law 617 of 2000.

For these purposes, the Municipal Councils on the initiative of the mayors will have to issue the regulation in which the recognition of transport is fixed, taking into account reasonable criteria, prior to the period of sessions following the promulgation of this law. Payments made to councillors for transport costs referred to in this Article shall not be subject to withholding tax.

ARTICLE 3o. SOURCE RETENTION. The source retention for payments made for each session in the terms of article 23 of Law 136 of 1994, corresponding to fees to the councilors declare the income tax and supplement it, whichever is the result of applying to those payments the following table:

VALUES BY SESSION (In UVTs)	rate
	UNTIL
0	100	0%
> 100	150	2%
> 150	Forward	10%

ARTICLE 4. PENSION CONTRIBUTION. The councilors belonging to municipalities of 4a, 5a, and 6a categories, who do not demonstrate another source of additional income, different from the one perceived by the concept of fees, will be beneficiaries of the Pensional Solidarity Fund.

ARTICLE 5o. TRAINING AND TRAINING. 25 of Law 1551 of 2012. The new text is as follows: > The Higher School of Public Administration will create free, face-to-face and/or virtual programs, and priority access to training and professional training for mayors, councilors and members of the public administration. local administrative boards.

PARAGRAFO. The academic training and training provided by this article will be extended to municipal and district personnel, as well as to those in these institutions, who perform a judicial or work practice. or professional as a requirement for access to a professional title or provide the service of an ad honorem legal aid under the terms of Law 1322 of 2009.

The ESAP will have 1 year from the entry into force of this law to implement the provisions of this article.

ARTICLE 6o. 26 of Law 1551 of 2012. The new text is as follows: > The Ministry of National Education will encourage the development of programs in the different institutions of higher education, aimed at training and training the country's councilors, in areas and areas. According to the Constitution and the law, they are in accordance with the functions they perform. These programs will be extended to the Mayors, members of the Local Administrative Boards and the Community Action Bodies.

ARTICLE 7o. 27 of Law 1551 of 2012. The new text is as follows: > Institutions of higher education will be able to create, within the framework of their university autonomy, programs aimed at the training and training of mayors, municipal councilors and municipal or district persons, The judiciary and the public administration in matters in accordance with the functions that they exercise, according to the Constitution and the law, providing access and permanence facilities for them. These programs will be extended to members of local administrative boards and community action agencies.

ARTICLE 8o. (a) the members may exercise their profession or trade, provided that the functions they carry out as such are not interfered with, nor are they matters in which the municipality or its entities decentralized are part.

ARTICLE 9o. VALIDITY. This law governs from its enactment and repeals any provisions that are contrary to it.

The President of the honorable Senate of the Republic,

JAVIER CACERES LEAL.

The Secretary General of the honorable Senate of the Republic,

EMILIO OTERO DAJUD.

The President of the honorable House of Representatives,

EDGAR ALFONSO GOMEZ ROMAN.

The Secretary General of the honorable House of Representatives,

JESUS ALFONSO RODRIGUEZ CAMARGO.

COLOMBIA-NATIONAL GOVERNMENT

Publish and comply.

Dada en Bogotá, D. C., at December 29, 2009.

ALVARO URIBE VELEZ

The Minister of the Interior and Justice,

FABIO VALENCIA COSSIO.

The Minister of Finance and Public Credit,

OSCAR IVAN ZULUAGA ESCOBAR.

The Deputy Minister of Pre-School Education, Basic and Media of the Ministry of National Education, in charge of the functions of the Office of the Minister of National Education,

ISABEL SEGOVIA OSPINA.