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DECREE NO 597.-
THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF THE REPUBLIC OF EL SALVADOR,
WHEREAS:
I.-That according to Article 61 of the Constitution of the Republic, higher education will be governed by a special law and that, University of El Salvador and the rest of the State, will enjoy autonomy in the teaching, administrative and economic aspects; they must provide a social service, respecting the freedom of the chair; they shall be governed by statutes framed within that law, which shall lay down the general principles for their organization and operation; Each year in the budget of the State, the funds allocated to the support of the state universities and those necessary to ensure and increase their assets shall be entered in the State budget; these institutions shall be subject to the audit of the relevant State body; and the State will ensure democratic functioning of higher education and its proper academic level;
II.-That Article 60 of the Law of Higher Education establishes that the University of El Salvador will be governed by its Organic Law and other provisions In all cases, the Ministry of Education must submit by the Ministry of Education within a maximum of two years from the validity of the said Law, the draft of its new legal instruments;
III.-That the Higher Education Act, in its Article 23, provides that State institutions of higher education are corporations governed by public law, with legal personality and their own patrimony; therefore, it is necessary to decree a specific law called the Organic Law of the University of El Salvador, which will be its normative status, as set out in Article 61 of the Constitution.
IV.-It is necessary to strengthen the autonomy of the University of El Salvador, providing it with the necessary democratic mechanisms and sufficient potential resources, in order to sustain its institutional development, academic and scientific; with the aim of achieving academic excellence, the progress of higher education throughout the country and the access of people from all social strata to the possibilities of vocational training;
THEREFORE,
in use of its constitutional powers and on the initiative of the President of the Republic, through the Minister of Education and Deputies Ruben Orellana Mendoza, Roberto Serrano Alfaro, Marta Lilian Coto de Cuellar, Norma Fidelia Guevara de Cuellar Ramírios, Ciro Cruz Zepeda, Sarbelio Ventura Cortez, Ronal Umana, Carlos Alberto Escobar, Jorge Alberto Munoz Navarro, Nelson Funes, Gerardo Escalon Gomez, Juan Ramon Medrano, Luis Mario Lopez, Mario Roberto Pacheco Carballo, Oscar Figueroa, Pio Segundo Calderon, Mario Vinicio Penate, Juan Duch Martinez, Gerson Martinez, Ciro Cruz Zepeda Pena, Julio Antonio Gamero
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Quintanilla, José Rafael Machuca Zelaya, Alfonso Aristides Alvarenga, Gerardo Antonio Suvillaga García, Elvia Violeta Menjívar, Rosario del Carmen Acosta, Gerber Mauricio Aguilar Zepeda, Rene Napoleon Aguiluz, Alex Rene Aguirre, Victoria Ruiz de Amaya, Walter Rene Araujo Morales, Concepción Miranda, Arturo Argumedo, Nelson Edgardo Avalos, Jorge Alberto Barrera, Donald Ricardo Calderon Lam, Irma Amaya, Isidro Antonio Caballero Caballero, Olme Remberto Contreras, Luis Alberto Cruz, Roberto Jose D' Aubuisson Munguia, Nidia Diaz, Ramon Diaz Bach, Rene Mario Figueroa, Hermes Alcides Flores Molina, Jesus Grande, Abel Laguardia, Nelson Napoleon Garcia, Mauricio Gonzalez Ayala, Elizardo Gonzalez Lovo, Roman Ernesto Guerra Romero, Schafik Jorge Handal, Ernesto Angulo, Jose Roberto Larios Rodriguez, Francisco Roberto Lorenzana Duran, Carlos Guillermo Magana Tobar, Alejandro Dagoberto Marroquín, José Manuel Melgar Henriquez, Raul Mijango, Maria Isbela Morales Ayala, Julio Eduardo Moreno Niños, José Mario Moreno Rivera, Maria Ofelia Navarrete de Dubón, Sigifredo Ochoa Pérez, Salvador Horacio Orellana Alvarez, Oscar Samuel Ortiz Ascencio, Juan Jose Guerrero, Zoila Quijada, Mariela Pena Pinto, Renato Antonio Perez, Silfide Marixa Pleitez de Ramírez, Norman Noel Quijano Gonzalez, Jose Mauricio Quiñeros Cubias, Alejandro Rivera, Abraham Rodriguez, David Rodriguez Rivera, Rene Oswaldo Rodriguez Velasco, Ileana Argentina Rogel de Rivera, Miguel Angel Saenz Varela, Jose Mauricio Salazar Hernandez, Kirio Waldo Salgado, Mercedes Gloria Salguero Gross, Julio Alfredo Samayoa, Wilber Ernesto Serrano Calles, Jose Ricardo Vega Hernandez, Ruben Ignacio Zamora Rivas, Luis Wellman and Armando Aguiluz,
DECRETA the following:
UNIVERSITY OF EL SALVADOR ORGANIC LAW
CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS
Object of the Law
Art. 1. This Law is intended to establish the general principles and principles on which the organization and operation of the University of El Salvador will be based.
In this Law, any reference to persons, their quality, their position or their function, expressed in male gender, will be understood as equally expressed in female gender
Legal nature
Art. 2.-The University of El Salvador, which in the course of this Law will be called "the University" or the "UES", is a corporation of public law, created to provide services of higher education, whose existence is recognized by article 61 of the Constitution of the Republic, with legal personality, its own patrimony and its principal place of residence in the city of San Salvador.
Fines Art. 3.-They are the aims of the University:
a) Keep, encourage and disseminate science, art and culture;
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b) Forming professionals who are morally and intellectually trained to perform their role in society by integrating teaching, research and social projection functions;
c) Conduct research Universal character, scientific, artistic and technological mainly on the Salvadoran and Central American reality;
d) Propender, with a social-humanistic sense, to the integral formation of the student;
e) Contribute to the strengthening of national identity and the development of a
(f) Promote sustainability and the protection of natural resources and the environment; and
g) Encourage among its students the ideal of unity of the Central American peoples.
For the best realization of its purposes, the University will be able to establish relationships cultural and cooperation with other universities and institutions, whether public or private, national or foreign, within the framework of this Law and other laws of the Republic.
Without prejudice to its autonomy, the University lend their collaboration to the State in the study of national problems.
Autonomy
Art. 4.-For the fulfillment of its aims, the University will enjoy autonomy in the teaching, the administrative and the economic.
University autonomy consists, fundamentally, in the faculty that the University has for:
a) Structure their academic units, determine how to perform their teaching, research and social projection functions, formulate and approve their study plans; all in accordance with their own legal order and without subject to foreign approval; except for plans and study programmes for the training of teachers, regulated in Article 57 of the Higher Education Act;
b) Appointing, removing and sanctioning officials and staff of the university corporation, without any limitations other than those determined by law;
c) Dispense and administer freely the elements of his or her patrimony, in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the Republic and in his own legal regime; and
d) Give his own legal regulations and instruments within the framework laid down in this Law and the legal order of the Republic.
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CHAPTER II OF UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
Features of Education
Art. 5. Education at the University will be oriented towards training in multi-disciplinary careers in philosophy, science, technology, art and culture in general, which train scientists, technology and humanistically to the
university teaching will be essentially democratic, respectful of the different philosophical and scientific conceptions that contribute to the development of the university. human thought; must seek the full development of the personality of the educating, cultivate the respect for human rights without discrimination on grounds of race, sex, nationality, religion or political creed, the nature of the union of parents or guarders, or for social and economic differences; and shall combat any spirit of
Education at the University should not be manifested as a form of participation in partisan political activities.
Freedom of Chair and Free Teaching
Art. 6.-The academic staff of the University will enjoy the freedom of professorship. It is understood by this, the exemption of obstacles to investigate, expose and transmit scientific knowledge; it manifests itself in the free exposition of the various doctrines and ideas that concern the spheres of the objective and scientific knowledge of the reality, as well as its critical analysis, for the exclusive purpose of illustrating and orienting research. This right is not opposed to the indication by the respective bodies, of pedagogical norms and technical and administrative provisions aimed at the best delivery of the teaching service.
Free teaching is recognized as a means of enrich the learning process.
Matriculation and schooling
Art. 7. Each student of the University shall pay annually, as a tuition fee, a general and uniform fee for the various academic units to be established by the University Superior Council, the equivalent of which may not exceed two days of the urban minimum wage.
In addition, you will pay monthly, in education, a differentiated fee that will be established based on the following criteria:
a) What you manifest in an affidavit about the family or personal socio-economic situation, which you will present in documented form when you apply for your income or reentry into the UES;
b) Your academic performance; and
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c) The study centre and the level of education that it paid during its average education.
The education fee will be established by a specialized agency attached to the Higher University Council, considering the lower or higher capacity. the applicant's economy; however, in no case will this quota be greater than the ten-day equivalent of the minimum wage for the urban area.
When the applicant prefers, he may refrain from submitting the affidavit referred to in this Article; but, in such a case, he shall automatically assume the maximum level of education. The same payment shall be made to the applicant who, to the economic detriment of the UES, lies, hides or misrepresents data in the presentation of the affidavit referred to in this Article. A special regulation shall determine the conformation of the body referred to in this Article and the specific procedures for its proper application.
When more than one member of the family carries out higher studies in the University shall pay only the education fee one of them; it shall be established in accordance with the criteria of this Article. When the latter refrains from submitting the respective affidavit, it shall proceed in accordance with the foregoing paragraph.
The fees to be paid by post-graduate students or special academic projects shall be fixed by the Council. University Superior and may be used for the purposes that the same determines, within the framework of the purposes of the University.
Review of the quota
Art. 8.-If, for specific reasons, current or over-lieutenants, any applicant or student is not in accordance with the differentiated fee established to him, he shall have the right to challenge that decision before the High University Council, detailing the reasons for their non-compliance. If the reasons for the appeal are that there are new elements of judgment, the corresponding professional investigation will be carried out, the result of which will be to decrease, maintain or increase the previously established quota.
Scholarship scheme
Art. 9. Students who, due to their academic merit and socio-economic status, become deserving of scholarships, will be subject to a system of granting and conservation of the same, as determined in a special regulation. This regulation will provide for the various types of grants, as well as the requirements to be met by students in order to become creditors; and the conditions under which members of the academic staff may enjoy them. Scholarships to study abroad will only be awarded to Salvadorans.
Fellows will have the obligation, once they have finished their studies, to provide services preferably to the University. The regulation referred to in the preceding paragraph shall determine how this obligation and the penalties for non-compliance are to be made effective.
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INTEGRATION CHAPTER III, ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE
AND UNIVERSITY GOVERNANCE
First Section
ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE INTEGRATION and Structure
Art. 10. The University Corporation will be composed of all its students, their academic staff and their non-teaching professionals. For the purposes of this Law, it will be non-teaching professionals all persons graduated or incorporated by the University, who are not part of their academic staff.
For the fulfilment of their aims, the University will retain and establish the Faculty, Schools, Departments, Institutes and University Extension Centers that it deems appropriate, in accordance with the educational needs and resources available to it. All these organizations will form a single cohesive and correlated entity in the narrowest form.
The structure of the university government will have as its basic unit the Faculty. Each of the Faculties will enjoy administrative and technical autonomy; it will have a budget for the achievement of its aims and will be obliged to report its activities to the higher bodies.
Academic quality and scientist
Art. 11.-The Rector, the Academic Vice-Rector, the Dean and the Vice-Dean and the Teaching Staff of the University, will be especially obliged to ensure the constant overcoming, academic and scientific, of the university education.
Section SECOND OF THE UNIVERSITY GOVERNMENT
Government Organ
Art. 12.-The government of the University, within the limits of its respective competence, will be exercised by the General University Assembly, the University Superior Council and the Rector.
The government of the Faculties will be exercised, within the limits of their respective competence, by the Board of Directors and the Dean.
Election of representatives
Art. 13.-The representation of the Academic Staff members of each Faculty before the College General Assembly, the University Superior Council and the Board of Faculty, will be elected by the Academic Staff Assembly.
representation of the non-teaching professional sector of each Faculty, before the University General Assembly and before the Board of the Faculty, will be elected by the associations of professionals of
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the Faculty that have legal status. If there are more than one of these associations, all of them will choose the representatives as a whole or in the manner that they determine and if they are federated, the choice will be the Federation of the same specialty.
Multi-disciplinary faculties, the representation of non-teaching professionals will be chosen by the associations that accredit resident or subsidiary members in the Departmental Header in which the same Faculty has a seat; the right of representation shall correspond to the associations of each specialty, who may exercise it in rotating form in each period of the university organ in question or in the way that they determine it; the rules of the previous paragraph are applicable.
The representation of the students will be chosen by means of direct voting, in all students enrolled in the respective Faculty may participate. The call for this election must be made, in a timely manner, by the Association of Students of the respective Faculty or, failing that, the President of the General Assembly. The respective Decanato will provide the necessary resources to carry out the aforementioned election.
Character of the votes
Art. 14.-For the purposes of this Law, the vote to elect representatives to the university government is a right and a non-transferable duty of students, academic staff and non-teaching professionals.
The University of the University of the University of the University will be public. However, they may be secret when determined by at least half of the members of the body concerned.
In any case, the votes will be secret to choose any authority of the University.
Election Requirements
Art. 15. To be elected representative to the University General Assembly, the University Superior Council or the Board of Faculty, it is required:
a) Dealing with academic staff, having the quality of Professor or Investigator in the (b) The Faculty and have had it for three consecutive years at least at the University; except for the Faculties with less time of foundation or created after the validity of this Law;
b) teachers, have no less than five years of possession of their academic degree and belong to one of the associations or colleges of choice. The time of possession of the academic degree referred to in this literal shall not be required of professionals whose Faculties have less than that foundation time, or created after the validity of this Law;
c) For students, having approved fifty percent of their career as a minimum in the corresponding Faculty; having obtained in the previous year, an average of scores not less than seventy percent of the maximum obtainable, or their equivalent
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in other systems and having studied at the University as a regular student, during the two years prior to the election.
In addition to the above requirements, the representatives referred to in this article must be Salvadorans, of recognised good repute; not to be public servants; carry out management positions at the University or other universities and institutions of higher education, or be part of the administrative staff of the UES.
UNIVERSITY GENERAL ASSEMBLY
CHARACTER AND HIERARCHY
ART. 16.-The University General Assembly will be the highest normative and elector of the University; it will also be the supreme organ of the University for the interpretation of its aims and the preservation of its institutions, all within the framework of the attributes that this Act determines to you.
Integration
Art. 17.-The University General Assembly shall be composed of the democratically elected representatives in each of the Faculties, as follows:
a) Two representative of the Academic Staff;
b) Two representative of the Associations of Non-teaching professionals; and
c) Two student representatives.
There will be equal number of alternates, who will be able to participate in the meetings with a voice, but without a vote, except when they replace the respective owner. The representatives will last two years in their duties and can be reelected consecutively for a further period.
In the session in which the representatives take possession of their posts, they will elect from among their members a Board of Directors which, in addition The Committee on the Rules of Procedure, the Committee on the Rules of Procedure, the Rules of Procedure and the Rules of Procedure. The Board of Directors shall consist of a Chair, a Vice-President, a Secretary and two Vocals.
The members of the Assembly shall be allowed to make allowances for the sessions to which they attend and the alternates, only when they are replacing the respective owner. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Rules of Procedure of the College General Assembly shall establish the cases in which the alternate members may be allowed to make allowances for the sessions to which they attend without replacing the owner. In any case, no diets can be paid for more than four sessions in the month.
Meetings
Art. 18.-The College General Assembly shall meet in an ordinary manner once a month and extraordinarily when the Board of Directors is convened, on its own initiative or at written request.
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of the University Superior Council, of the Rector; or when required, also in writing, a number not less than thirty percent of the total of its members.
In case of extreme gravity or of great importance for the existence or the good University march, the Assembly must be declared in permanent session for as long as required.
Privileges and Duties
Art. 19.-The College General Assembly shall have the following powers and duties:
a) Approve or reform its rules of procedure;
b) Agree to the proposals for reform to this Law and request the respective bill, to through the Secretariat of State, in the Ramo of Education;
c) Approve the General Regulation of this Law and the other general and specific regulations of all faculties and university offices, as well as their reforms;
d) To elect the Rector and the Vice-Chancellors from among the candidates who will have to present the academic, non-teaching professional and students at general level. These sectors will have to democratically elect a candidate for each of these positions, as determined by the corresponding Regulation;
e) Choose the Dean and Vice-decans of each Faculty, from among the proposals they will have to present to you the respective Academic Staff Assemblies, the Associations of non-teaching professionals and students;
f) Appointing the Attorney General and the External Auditor, of the respective third parties to be presented to him by the Superior Council University;
g) Choose, in accordance with the General Regulation and on a proposal from the Council University Superior, University delegates who, by law, must be part of state agencies;
h) Sanctioning officials of their choice, knowing of their resignation or agreeing to their removal from office legally established and with due process attachment;
i) Directing competencies between the various organs or university bodies and resolving differences that may arise between them;
j) Approving the project of the budget and the salary system presented to it by the Higher University Council and to refer it to the respective Secretariat of State for the corresponding procedure;
k) Knowing the annual work memory of the Rector and the periodic reports on
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the economic and financial management that you present; as well as the reports of the External and Internal Auditors;
l) Ratify or not, on a proposal from the University Superior Council and prior study of feasibility, the agreements to establish, delete, merge, coordinate or group Faculties, Schools, Departments, Institutes or other units; in accordance with the needs of teaching, scientific research or conservation and promotion of culture and the environment;
m) Reglamenting administration, disposition,
n) to ratify or not, on a proposal from the University Superior Council, the agreements and agreements concluded with other universities or cultural bodiesof a national or international character, within a period of not more than 30 days; where he does not do so within that period, will be held by ratifies;
n) Take the protest of law, through its President, to the officials of your choice and to give them possession of their respective positions;
o) To know and resolve, ultimately, of any transcendental matter that is relevant to the University and does not correspond to the competence of another body; and
p) The other privileges and duties referred to in this Law and the Regulations.
In the exercise of its powers rules, the University General Assembly may act on its own initiative or at the request of the University Superior Council. In the first case, you may request the opinion of such a Council, which shall issue it within a maximum of fifteen working days, following that in which it is requested.
UNIVERSITY HIGHER COUNCIL SECTION
Character and Hierarchy
Art. 20.-The High University Council shall be the highest body in the administrative, teaching, technical and disciplinary functions of the University; for this purpose, it shall dictate the relevant resolutions for the fulfilment of the provisions of this Law and of the university regulations.
Integration
Art. 21.-The College Board shall be composed of the Rector, the Dean, a representative of the Academic Staff of each Faculty and a representative of the students of each Faculty. The Council will be chaired by the Rector, who will have a vote of quality in the event of a tie.
The members acting on behalf of this body will last two years in their duties and may be re-elected only for a longer period of time. consecutive. Each representative shall have his/her alternate.
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Privileges and Duties
Art. 22. Within its administrative, teaching, technical and disciplinary functions, the Higher University Council shall have the following powers and duties:
a) Issue its rules of procedure;
b) Direct and administer the University;
c) Develop the proposal of the preliminary draft budget and the University's salary system, based on the requirements of the different units that make up the university; and submit it to the approval of the General Assembly University;
d) Velar because there is due coordination between the different dependencies of the University, avoiding duplicity of expenses and efforts, proposing to the greatest efficiency and exploitation of resources;
e) Knowing the causes of the absence of the Rector, qualifying them and issuing the replacement agreement, according to The provisions of this Law;
f) Prior study of feasibility, approve agreements to establish, delete, merge, coordinate and group Faculties, Schools, Departments, Institutes or other units, according to the needs of teaching, scientific research, the preservation of culture and the environment environment; and subject them to the ratification of the University General Assembly;
g) Establishing general rules for the elaboration of the study plans of the various Faculties;
h) Approving, reviewing and readjusting plans and programs studies, courses of vocational or training courses and specialization, the organization of courses and parallel sections, as well as of the careers with lateral exits and the operation of free chairs; on their own initiative or proposal of the Boards of Faculties Directives;
i) Name, of the terms to be propose the Rector, the General Secretary and the Internal Auditor of the University and remove them for legally established causes;
j) Appoint, of the respective terms proposed by the Rector, to the Directors of the University Centers that crearen, the Manager, Treasurer, Provider, Director of the University Publishing House and the Directors or Heads of the University's broadcast or communication organs; know about his resignation and remove them for legally established causes;
k) Take the protest of law, through the Rector, to the officials who name and give them possession of your charges;
l) Sanctioning your competition officials;
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m) Know in review or appeal, of the sanctions imposed by the agencies or officials of lower hierarchy;
n) Authorize the officials of the UES, so that they can leave the country in representation of the University, when it is of missions for more than five days;
n) Develop the regulations specific to the good march of the University and to propose them to the General Assembly, for its corresponding approval; and
or) The other attributions and duties to be pointed out in this Law and the regulations.
FIFTH SECTION OF THE RECTOR AND THE VICE-RECTMID
Of The Rector
Art. 23.-The Rector will be the top executive officer of the University and will be in charge of the University's legal representation. He will execute and enforce the resolutions of the University General Assembly and the University Superior Council.
In cases of judicial or extrajudicial action, prior to the agreement of the University Superior Council, the Rector will grant the sufficient legal power to the UES Attorney General, who can replace it under the laws.
From the Rectory
Art. 24. The Rector shall be elected in the manner set out in Article 19 lit. (d) for a period of four years and may be re-elected only one more consecutive period. There will be an Academic Vice-Rector and an Administrative Vice-Chancellor, elected in the same way and for the same period as the Rector; those who will be under the leadership of the Rector, within the framework of the duties and duties that the present Law points to them.
Case of missing the Rector by death, resignation, removal, impediment, excuse or for any other reason, the charge will be exercised by the Academic Vice-Rector and, failing that, by the Administrative Vice-Rector.
Requirements
Art. 25.-To be Rector, Academic Vice-Rector or Administrative Vice-Rector of the University, it is required:
a) Being Salvadoran by birth and over thirty years of age;
b) Gozar of recognized honorability and professional capacity;
c) Credit administrative and academic experience, or have worked for four years in the
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University, or having been part of the university governing bodies during the same period; and
d) Being graduated or incorporated by the University and having no less than eight years of possessing the academic degree.
Rector duties
Art. 26.-The Rector will have the following powers and duties:
a) Defend the interests of the University;
b) Present to the University Superior Council and the University General Assembly, at the beginning of its management, the Plan of Development of the University; as well as its Annual Work Plan, at the beginning of each fiscal year;
c) Evaluate the activities of the University;
d) Represent the University and preside over the official acts of the University;
e) Propose the appropriate standards for the improvement of the University and to solve by itself, or with previous agreement of the University Superior Council, administrative or teaching matters not provided for in the regulations;
f) Adopt the executive measures necessary to ensure the good march of the University and the due coordination of its dependencies;
g) Authorizing UES officials so that they can leave the country, on institutional representation, when it comes to official missions for up to five days;
h) Name and remove for legal reasons, the staff of the central offices of the University, of the bodies which are directly dependent on the Rectory and, in general, staff not attached to a given Faculty or teaching unit and other than the appointment or recruitment of another University official or body;
i) Propose to the Higher University Council reforms to the
j) Apply to the High University Council to leave the country, where the absence exceeds five days;
k) Submit to the General Assembly the University of the United Nations. annual work memory, within the first three months of each year;
l) Report six-month administrative management to the General University Assembly, or when this body requires it;
m) Fulfilling and enforcing university legislation and agreements within the exercise
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of his duties will be issued by the University General Assembly and the University Superior Council; and
n) The other duties and duties to be pointed out to him by this Law and regulations.
Duties and duties of the Academic Vice-Chancellor
Art. 27.-The Academic Vice-Rector will replace the Rector in the cases established legally and with the agreement of the University Superior Council. Without prejudice to the above, you must fulfil the following duties and duties:
a) Coordinate and supervise academic functions, in conjunction with the authorities of the Faculties;
b) Analyze and monitor the development of the University study plans for the purpose of being appropriate to the needs of society;
c) Develop teaching, research and social projection programs, in accordance with national reality and scientific development;
d) Develop permanent research and training programs for all personnel academic, on pedagogical and specialization methods;
e) Velar because the teaching work of the University is carried out in an effective, efficient, up-to-date and in unity of purpose with the research; using the most adequate teaching-learning and evaluation;
f) Velar because the university courses give special care in the linking of the universal knowledge with the national reality, developing in the students capacity analysis, criticism and creative application of knowledge;
g) Stimulating, coordinate and supervise research at the University, ensuring that it is integrated with teaching and social projection programs, promoting its dissemination;
h) Directing and evaluating all activities of social projection of the University;
i) Stimulating academic excellence of the university student;
j) Ensuring that the results of university research reach the sectors that require it;
k) Elaborate in conjunction with the Authorities of the Faculties, plans and academic reports that the Rectory must present ordinary and extraordinarily, before the University Superior Council and the University General Assembly;
l) Submit annually its Work Plan and report on the management done, to the Rector and to the General Assembly, when it is so require;
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(m) To execute the provisions of the General University Assembly, the University Superior Council and the Rector, which have a direct relationship with the functions of this Vice-rectory; and
n) The other duties and duties to be pointed out by the regulations.
Duties and duties of the Vice-Chancellor Administrative
Art. 28.-The Administrative Vice-Chancellor shall replace the Rector in accordance with the provisions of Article 24 of this Law, with the agreement of the University Superior Council. Without prejudice to the above, you must fulfill the following duties and duties:
a) Direct, monitor and evaluate the University's administrative system, pointing out the guidelines for the administration to perform its functions in a manner efficient and effective;
b) Coordinate with the authorities of the Faculties the training, control and permanent evaluation of the staff of the University;
c) Participate in the elaboration of the draft budget and the System University Salaries and ensure that this is done in a timely and efficient manner for their respective approval;
d) Velar for the opportunity and efficiency of the processes related to appointments, hiring, promotions, transfers, licenses, vacations and resignations of University workers;
e) Preserve the heritage of the University and promote its development, taking care that it is available only for the fulfilment of the aims of the University;
f) Directing, coordinating and evaluating all the guidance and social assistance services of the University students;
g) Velar because the University has a suitable environment for its educational and ecologically sound function;
h) Promote student welfare and the integral development of University staff;
i) Develop, in conjunction with the authorities of the Faculties, plans and administrative reports that the Rectory must present ordinary and extraordinarily, to the University Superior Council and the General Assembly;
j) to execute the agreements of the Rector, the University Superior Council and the General University Assembly,
(k) Ensure the application of the systems of the Scale of academic and non-teaching staff;
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l) Submit annually its Work Plan to the Rector and report on the management done, to the University Superior Council and the General University Assembly, when these agencies require it; and
m) duties to be pointed out to you by this Law and regulations.
Section Sixth FROM THE GOVERNMENT OF FACULTIES
Integration of the Boards of Directors
Art. 29. The Board of Directors of each Faculty shall be composed of the Dean, two representatives of the Academic Staff, two representatives of the non-teaching professionals and two representatives of the students of the respective Faculty. There will be equal number of alternates.
The Dean will preside over the Board of Directors for the duration of the exercise of his office and the other representatives will be for two years, and may be re-elected for a more consecutive term.
The Directors of Schools and Departments in each Faculty will be a Technical Advisory Committee of the Board of Directors.
Requirements to be elected Dean or Vice-Dean
Art. 30. To be elected Dean or Vice-Dean the same requirements as for Rector will be necessary, except as to the time of the academic degree, which is reduced to five years and to have worked full-time at the University during the three years prior to the election.
Of Dean and Vice-dean
Art. 31.-The Dean and the Vice-dean will be elected by the General University Assembly, among the candidates to be presented by teachers, non-teaching professionals and students from the respective Faculty.
The Dean and the Vice-Dean
the Vice-dean will replace the Dean in case of death, resignation, impediment, removal, excuse or for any other reason. If the absence is final, the Vice-dean will hold office until the University General Assembly chooses the replacement.
Powers and duties of the Boards of Directors
Art. 32.-They are the powers and duties of the Boards of Directors:
a) Issue its rules of procedure;
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b) Manage, safeguard and promote the development of the Faculty's heritage;
c) Develop and submit to the approval of the General University Assembly, the draft General Regulation of the Faculty and the draft regulations specific to the same;
d) Propose to the Superior Council University the creation, suppression, annexation or merger of schools, institutes or other bodies dependent on the Faculty in order to be approved;
e) Resolver on appointments, transfers, licenses, sanctions and removals of the Staff Faculty scholar, in accordance with the scale system and other applicable laws;
f) Appoint the Faculty Secretary from among a third party who proposes the Dean and remove him for legally established causes;
g) Resolver on the teaching and technical matters of the Faculty, and must submit them to approval of the higher bodies, where expressly provided by this Law and regulations;
h) Submit for approval by the University of the University of the College of the Conventions in which the Faculty is interested;
i) annually the tuition capacity of the schools and other teaching units linked to its Faculty; and
j) The other duties and duties to be pointed out in this Law and the Regulations.
Dean's attributions and duties
Art. 33.-The Dean shall be the executive officer of the Faculty and shall have the following duties and duties:
a) Represent, Chair and Lead the Faculty;
b) Chair of the sessions of the Board of Directors of the Faculty and the sessions of the Academic Staff Assembly; with a quality vote in case of a tie in the Board;
c) Propose to the Board of Directors a term for the appointment of the Secretary of the Faculty;
d) Adopt, within its functions executive, all measures that are necessary to ensure the good march of the Faculty and the proper coordination between their dependencies;
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e) Convening the Academic Staff of the respective Faculty for the election of their representatives to the University General Assembly, the University's Higher Council and the Board of Directors;
f) Notify with due anticipation of the students and non-teaching professionals of the Faculty, on the election of their representatives to the University General Assembly, the University Superior Council and the Board of the Faculty, as appropriate;
g) Present the Work Plan and the work memory to the Academic Staff Assembly, at the latest in the first quarter of each year;
h) Present to the University General Assembly and to the University Superior Council the reports required; and
The other powers and duties to be pointed out to him by this Law and the University Regulations.
Duties and duties of the Vice-dean
Art. 34.-The Vice-Dean will be responsible for coordinating and supervising the academic functions and administrative order of the Faculty, and should inform the Dean about the performance of the different departments of the Faculty. In addition, you will have to fulfill the duties and duties that the regulations set out for you.
Academic Staff Assemblies
Art. 35.-In each Faculty there will be an Academic Staff Assembly composed of all the teachers, the researchers and the social projection managers, who belong to the respective Faculty.
The Academic Staff will rule on pedagogical matters and in general on technical matters, of the Faculty in question; and they will also have the duties and duties to be established by the regulations.
CHAPTER IV OF THE ORDER LEGAL COUNSEL AND LEGAL COUNSEL
University Attorney General
Art. 36.-The Office of the Prosecutor General of the University shall exercise its powers and duties independently of the other organs and officials thereof. He will be in charge of a Prosecutor General, who will ensure the strict compliance with this Law, the regulations and the rules validly emanated from the competent organs that make up the university government, as well as the other laws that
The Attorney General will last four years in the exercise of his duties, and may be re-elected for one more consecutive term.
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Requirements to be Attorney General
Art. 37.-To be Attorney General of the University requires:
a) To be Salvadoran and over thirty years of age;
b) To be authorized for the exercise of the Law and the Notary and to have been authorized for the five years prior to its choice;
c) Be a graduate of the University or have been incorporated by it;
d) Be of recognized professional capacity and honorability; and
e) Not having exercised administrative management or trust positions within the University, in the four years prior to his election, except for the Assistant Prosecutor.
Privileges and Duties
Art. 38.-They are the duties and duties of the Attorney General of the University:
a) Seek compliance with the legal order of the University;
b) Intervening in defense of the interests of the University in the civil, commercial, administrative or any other type, which has been initiated or which are brought against it;
c) To contend and to rule on the consultations that are requested in legal matters by the various organs of the University;
d) Propose to the organs of the University the legal measures on administration and
e) Advising the University's Higher Council and the Rector in the formulation and review of the laws, regulations and other provisions that have to be applied. University;
f) Provide advice to the University's dependencies on the analysis and interpretation of university laws and regulations and, where appropriate, rule on their interpretation;
g) Conduct studies and analyses on the laws and regulations that compete with the University, or affect the rights of the same;
h) Attend the University's dependencies on the conclusion of agreements, contracts and other bilateral or multilateral events, in which the University participates, monitoring its compliance;
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i) To present to the University Superior Council the necessary proposals in those cases where discrepancies arise in the interpretation of legal norms or in the execution of agreements that in their opinion are not supported by the legislation
j) render the annual report of the Office of the Prosecutor General to the Council University Superior; and
k) The other attributions and duties that the Law and Regulations point out to you.
CHAPTER V OF INCOMPATIBILITIES
Of officials and their organs
Art. 39.-The exercise of the functions of Rector, Vice-Chancellor, Dean, Vice-dean, General Secretary, University Rights Defender and Attorney General of the University, will be incompatible with that of any other public office or leader of political party.
No person can be part of at the same time, two or more collegiate organs of university government, except the case of the Dean of Faculties.
In the attention of nature and the ends of the University, prohibits its organs and officials from intervening on behalf of the institution in activities of partisan proselytism.
CHAPTER VI OF THE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY
STUDENTS ' First Section
Student Quality
Art. 40.-They are students or students of the University, the persons who have registered registration in any of the Careers that it offers and that comply with the provisions of this Law and its regulations.
Rights of the students
Art. 41.-They are students ' rights:
a) Receive the teaching that corresponds to the University according to the plans and programs of study, in order to achieve academic excellence;
b) Attend and participate in the events University cultural university;
c) Obtain diplomas, constances, certificates, degrees and academic degrees awarded by the University, subject to compliance with the relevant requirements;
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d) Gozar of freedom of assembly, association and expression in terms of university legislation;
e) Receive information regarding scholarships, prizes and mentions, national and international and other stimuli to be made creditors; as well as, receive corresponding support for developing academic and cultural projects individually or collectively;
f) Choosing and being elected representatives of their respective academic units, in terms established by university legislation;
g) Reporting to the appropriate bodies, where the level and academic quality of the teachers who dictate the courses does not correspond to academic excellence, observing the procedures laid down in the respective regulations;
h) with regard to which they deserve as academics from authorities, teachers and University administrative staff;
i) Be cared for in a timely and efficient manner in the school and administrative procedures that apply;
j) Contar with a work bag for the graduates, who are responsible for procuring their incorporation into the professional labour market;
k) Contar with the appropriate academic support conditions and services for the performance of their activities;
l) Contar with the advice of the Ombudsman's Office of the Rights of the the University, when it considers its rights affected or transgressed; and
m) authorities and their respective authorities, acting in accordance with the powers conferred upon it by university legislation, where there are actions that damage or undermine their dignity or their rights.
Students ' Duties
Art. 42.-They are students ' obligations:
a) Respect all members of the university community and comply with the provisions that govern the academic life of the University, in accordance with what is established by university and other legislation laws of the Republic;
b) Attend regularly to their classes and comply with the academic activities inherent in the University's plans and programs;
c) Maintain and increase the prestige of the UES in and out of its facilities;
d) Fulfilling with the Social Service; and
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e) Contribute to the care and preservation of the university heritage.
Education Regulation
Art. 43.-The income, permanence and egress of the students, will be regulated according to what is established by the corresponding regulation.
Nondiscrimination
Art. 44. The University may not refuse to admit students for social, nationality, religious, racial, political, economic status, sex, or the nature of the union of their parents, guardians or guarders.
Student Associations
Art. 45.-The associations of students who are constituted in the University or in the Faculties, will be totally independent of the authorities of the University and of the Faculties and will be organized democratically in the form that the same students will determine.
The associations of students thus constituted, will obtain the legal status by agreement of the General Assembly of the University that will approve the Statutes of the entity; this agreement will be published once in the Official Journal, together with the Statutes of the Association duly approved. Likewise, such associations shall be registered in the Register which the General Assembly shall take for this purpose. This Registry will be in charge of the Board of Directors of the University General Assembly.
ACADEMIC STAFF SECTION
REQUIREMENTS
ART. 46.-The academic staff of the University will be trained by the people in charge of teaching, research and social projection.
National or foreign teachers of the University must possess at least the degree of
selection and final designation of the academic staff of the University will be made by the opposition system, in order to verify the quality of the teaching staff. the ability of the candidates; all in accordance with the corresponding regulations.
Career of the Academic Staff
Art. 47.-The Career of Academic Staff of the University is established. A Career Regulation will contain the relevant provisions on the exercise and evaluation of teaching, research and social projection, duties and rights of staff and the functioning of the body of academics. this in accordance with the rules laid down in the relevant legal provisions.
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Stability
Art. 48. The academic staff of the University shall enjoy stability in their positions and may not be removed or suspended but in the cases provided for in law and through established procedures.
NON-TEACHING ADMINISTRATIVE
Non-teaching Workers
Art. 49.-The working, individual and collective relationships between the University and its non-teaching staff will be governed by national and university legislation.
Freedom of Association
Art. 50.-The University recognizes the freedom of association of its workers to defend their common interests and the university authorities will be obliged to respect this right. However, no university worker can be forced to be part of an association or union.
Duty of respect
Art. 51. Non-teaching workers will observe respectful treatment for the rest of the members of the university community and will also be entitled to the considerations inherent in their dignity as workers.
Section 4 FROM THE STAFF ESCALATION
Operation
Art. 52. The University will have a scale system for its academic and non-teaching staff, which will contain the respective classification of the posts, as well as the basic criteria for the approval of promotions and promotions. the staff and the mechanisms for the social and wage promotion of the same. It will also regulate the duties and rights of personnel, especially those related to constant training and the disciplinary regime applicable to it.
The University's scale system will be approved or reformed, with the two Third of the votes of the University General Assembly, on a proposal from the University Superior Council. Its provisions should be regularly adjusted to the University's regular budget, in the respective Wage Law.
CHAPTER VII OF THE ACADEMIC PRIVILEGES OF THE UNIVERSITY
Granting of degrees and degrees academics
Art. 53.-The University shall grant to persons who have completed the corresponding study plans and comply with the regulatory requirements, certificates, degrees or academic degrees, in accordance with the respective legislation; enable by themselves for the exercise of
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the corresponding professions, except that the Constitution of the Republic or other laws require additional requirements.
Likewise, the University may grant, by outstanding merits, the honorary degrees of Doctor Honoris Causa and Master Emeritus. Such a grant will be agreed upon by the University Superior Council and will be subject to a special regulation.
Validations and equivalences
Art. 54.-The studies offered by the University, as well as the certificates of studies, diplomas, degrees or degrees it grants, will have official validity in accordance with the corresponding legislation.
The University may to grant study equivalences to those carried out in other institutions of higher education, which are part of the national education system and in foreign institutions, in accordance with the provisions laid down in the law and in the internal regulations of the same. To grant them, it will be an indispensable requirement that there be equivalence with the national education system and with the studies offered by the University.
Incorporation
Art. 55.-Without prejudice to Article 17 of the Law of Higher Education, the University in the use of its teaching autonomy may agree to the academic incorporation of graduates in foreign universities, without more requirements than the
CHAPTER VIII OF THE DISCIPLINARY REGIME,
RESPONSIBILITY OF OFFICIALS, RESOURCES AND ADVOCACY
Disciplinary regime
Art. 56.-The regulations will establish the disciplinary regime the Universitywhich must contain the classification and classification of the offences committed by the authorities, the students, the academic staff and the staff. non-teaching administrative; the penalties applicable to each case and the authority responsible for imposing them, as well as the procedure necessary to apply those penalties.
Causes of removal
Art. 57.-Without prejudice to the legal responsibilities to which it may occur, they are considered to be serious causes, sanctioned with removal, the following:
a) Dispose of the University's patrimony in violation of its aims and objectives;
b)
c) Not to comply with the resolutions of the University General Assembly or the University Superior Council, if any;
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(d) Serious violation of this Law, the general regulation or other regulatory provisions of the University; and
e) Other provisions laid down in the general regulation.
In the cases provided for in subparagraphs (a), (c), (d) and (e) of this article requires the vote of two thirds of the Member of the competent body to agree on removal.
Special Ban
Art. 58.-No person or group of persons may be empowered on behalf of the University. These attributions correspond exclusively to the legally established officials or bodies.
The pronouncements formulated by the university bodies, must be discussed and approved by the persons who integrate them and their text. must be incorporated in the respective minutes.
The infringement of the provisions of this Article, as well as the third indent of Article 5, and the third indent of Article 39, shall be deemed to be a serious violation of this Law.
Officials Responsibility
Art. 59.-The University being a Public Law Corporation, its organs and officials will be subject to the rule of law established in the last article 86 of the Constitution of the Republic; therefore, they will respond as public officials in accordance with Articles 240 to 245 of the same, for the abuses committed in the exercise of their functions.
The Rector and the Vice-Chancellors, the Dean and Vice-Dean, the Secretary General of the University, the Attorney General of the University and the University Rights Defender, will be required to render their patrimonial declaration in accordance with the provisions of Article 240 of the Constitution. Additionally, they will be required to grant caution in favor of the University, the officials who point out the general regulation.
Right of petition
Art. 60.-All members of the university community, individually or in an associated manner, have the right to direct their requests, in writing and in a decent manner, to the officials or agencies of the University and to be resolved and to make known by written the resolved, in the shortest possible time. In any event, no request for these may exceed the 60 working days without resolving and be notified of the resolved, unless it is prevented by fair cause.
The regulations will determine the penalties for the violation of this article. and those cases in which administrative silence is operated in favor of the petitioners.
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Impeachment Right
Art. 61.-Of the resolutions emanating from the organs and university officials, the resources to which there may be, in the form and within the time limits laid down in the legal system of the University, may be brought in. The impeachment of the administrative acts and resolutions of the organs and officials of the UES may only be instituted judicially once the resources established internally and in accordance with the other laws of the Republic have been exhausted.
Defending the rights of UES members
Art. 62.-The Office of the Ombudsman shall be an independent body of the university governing bodies and any of its officials, without prejudice to the obligation which they shall be required to provide to the institution. cooperation required for the fulfillment of its objectives.
This body will have the object of knowing about the violations that any university authority commits to the rights of the members of the university community, by acts or omissions, ensuring the defence or restoration of such rights, for whom it will be affected.
He will be in charge of a University Rights Defender, who will have to meet the same requirements of the University Attorney General and will be elected for the same period and in the same way as the Rector.
intervention and operation will be established by a special regulation.
HERITAGE CHAPTER IX
Property and heritage values
Art. 63.-The University's heritage is constituted by the following assets and values:
a) Those that are currently owned and those that in the future acquire by any title;
b) Annual, ordinary and annual items and allowances extraordinary, granted by the State or the municipalities, as well as other persons or institutions;
c) Revenue to be collected for the rights to which laws and regulations indicate;
d) Rights, fees and shares for works that are performed by agreement with public, private and social entities;
e) rights and fees for the services you provide;
f) The inheritances, legacies and donations you receive and the trusts that are in your favor; and
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g) The products and benefits derived from their assets and heritage values.
Character of University Goods
Art. 64.-The immovable property which forms part of the university estate shall have the character of inalienable and imprinted and on the same shall not constitute any charge.
When any of these buildings cease to be used for the purpose of the institution, the Higher University Council may issue the declaration of affectability, on the proposal of the Rector and if it is agreed by the two-thirds of the votes of the General Assembly; agreement and declaratory be protocolized and entered in the Registry of the corresponding Root Property, Thus, such immovable property, subject to the provisions of the common law.
movable property which forms part of the university estate and which has no legally declared cultural value, may only be disposed of or pretaxed authorization of the University Superior Council, in terms of the general regulation of this Law.
In any case, the resources obtained through the disposal or the taxation of the property of the University, will only be possible be used to achieve your purposes.
Tax exemption
Art. 65.-The University's heritage will be exempt from any state and municipal taxes.
CHAPTER X OF THE TAX ECONOMIC REGIME
PLANNING AND BUDGET SECTION
PLANNING AND assessment
Art. 66.-Planning and evaluation are basic strategic activities through which priority lines are established for the best development of the activities inherent in the University's functions. All academic units and instances of government and administration are obliged to establish plans, development programs and evaluation procedures, in accordance with the guidelines of the General Plan of Development of the University.
General Development Plan
Art. 67.-The General Plan of Development of the University will contain the fundamental basis in terms of policies, strategies, programs, actions and goals of the development of the University, medium and long term, as well as the interrelation of them with the resources necessary for the achievement of its aims. Such a plan shall take into account national or regional socio-economic conditions, where appropriate.
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Evaluation of functions and activities
Art. 68.-The officials and the collegiate bodies of the University, as appropriate, must establish annually, in addition to its Sectoral Development Plan, the programs and operational projects, in order to have the mechanisms and relevant technical instruments for performance evaluation in their respective roles.
All Academic Units and other government and administration entities of the University will be required to evaluate their performance annually. activities with respect to the schedule. These evaluations will be presented annually to the Rector, in accordance with the guidelines and criteria set out in the general regulation and in the plans of each area or sector.
Budget, elaboration and allocation
Art. 69.-The Budget shall be the estimate or forecast of the revenue and expenditure necessary for the development of the functions, objectives and activities of the University, in the period from 1 January to 31 December of each year.
All Academic Units, government and administration entities of the University, will be required to present, in time and form, to the Higher University Council or corresponding dependency, the documents necessary to elaborate and timely referral of the draft institutional budget, in accordance with the rules established in the State Financial Administration Law and other relevant provisions.
The State shall record annually in the General Budget, the resources allocated to the support of the University for the achievement of the of its purposes, including the items for the promotion of scientific research and those necessary to ensure and enhance its heritage.
Transfers
Art. 70.-The transfers of funds between budget items and those relating to the University's central offices or to non-Faculty, will be agreed upon by the Higher University Council and, the same will be, proposal of the respective Board of Directors, when dealing with items corresponding to a given Faculty.
Special Wealth Fund
Art. 71.-For the purpose of carrying out its purposes, the revenue which the University obtains in respect of quotas, rights, fees and remuneration shall constitute a special fund for the grant of grants of at least 70%. for students of limited economic resources across the country, student welfare programs, including recreation and sports, learning resources acquisition, and encouragement to academic excellence. The rest will be used in the manner determined by the University Superior Council, in accordance with the University's development plans.
Other than that fund, in addition to the State budget allocations, the donations, inheritances, legacies, trusts and subsidies in favor of the University, which can only be used according to the express provisions of the grantor.
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The Ministry of Finance is empowered to automatically assign to the aforementioned fund, in the general budget, the revenue referred to in the preceding paragraph.
CONTRACT Second Section
Internal Audit
Art. 72.-It is for the Internal Auditor to monitor the proper implementation of the UES patrimony, in accordance with the existing plans, programmes and budgets. You will be responsible for timely pointing to the corresponding instances of the irregularities that you will detect.
External Audit
Art. 73.-The External Auditor shall give an opinion on the financial statements, economic performance, specific audits and management tasks entrusted to it by the General University Assembly or the University Superior Council and shall be obliged to communicate its conclusions and recommendations to the corresponding instances.
You must fill in the requirements set out in Art. 290 of the Trade Code and will last for two years in your duties, and may be re-elected.
Audit rules
Art. 74.-Internal and external auditors shall take into account, for their performance, generally accepted auditing standards and related national legislation. They may be removed by legally established causes, by the body that names them.
All administrative and academic dependencies of the University will be required to collaborate in a timely manner in the performance of their respective institutions. attributions.
Requirements for the Internal Auditor
Art. 75.-To be internal and external auditor of the UES, it is required:
a) Be Salvadoran;
b) Have a university degree of Public Accountant or its equivalent;
c) Have professional experience not less than four years; and
d) Be of recognized honorability, professional competence and not having the skills established in this Law.
Control and audit of public management
Art. 76.-The University will be subject to the fiscal control of the Court of Auditors of the Republic, who will act on the basis of its own Organic Law, this Law and the other applicable laws.
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CHAPTER XI GENERAL PROVISIONS
Quorum and votes
Art. 77. In order for the University General Assembly to be validly sessionable, it will require at least the two thirds of its members, in the first call and half plus one, in the second. The calls may be made simultaneously, measuring a half-hour span of waiting at least, between the hours set for the first and second calls.
Decisions on transcendental matters will be taken with the vote. in accordance with two thirds of the total of its members, at least; in the case of decisions on current matters, the votes of the half plus one of its members shall be sufficient. The knowledge or discussion of any matter cannot be initiated, if there is no quorum necessary for a resolution to be adopted on it.
The disintegration of the quorum initially established will not be an obstacle to continuing the session and can the General Assembly of University adopt resolutions, provided that they are voted by the majorities provided in the previous paragraph.
The rules on convocation, quorum and votes in the other collegiate organs of government, will be the ones mentioned in this article.
Transcendental issues
Art. 78.-The choice or removal of elected officials by the University General Assembly, the University Superior Council and the Boards of Faculties Directives shall
considered as transcendental matters;
b) The adoption of measures involving penalties for serious misconduct by Academic Staff, students, Administrative and Technical Chiefs of University Services;
c) Approval of the proposal for reforms to this Law;
d) approval or reforms of the general regulation of this Law;
e) Creation, deletion, annexation or merger of Faculties, Schools, Institutes or other bodies intended for the purpose of the University;
f) Approval, revision or modification of careers, plans and study programmes;
g) granting of honorary degrees;
h) The approval of the economic and financial reports of the agencies and officials of the University to be presented; and
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i) Others who are qualified as transcendental by the regulations. Electoral Privileges
Art. 79.-The electoral privileges of the General University Assembly, the University Superior Council and the Boards of Faculty, will be immeasurable and undeclinable for each of its members.
Assistance to sessions
Art. 80. The Secretary General of the University shall be obliged to attend the sessions of the General University Assembly and the University Superior Council, with a right to speak, but without a vote. The same obligation and right will have to do with the Boards of Directors, the Secretaries of Faculties.
The Attorney General of the University may attend such sessions when necessary and will be obliged to do so, when expressly requires some of the University's collegiate bodies.
Character of the sessions
Art. 81.-The sessions of the General University Assembly shall be public; however, any member of the College may request the removal of foreign persons, when it considers that these persons hinder the development of the meeting. If the Board approves it, who will be presiding over the removal of the strangers or will lift the session, as the case may be.
When the session is suspended for this cause, the next one will be called to deal with the matter that
sessions of the other governing bodies of the University may be public or private, in the opinion of the majority of the members of the organ concerned.
Election Officials interim
Art. 82.-When one of the officials whose election is the General Assembly is absent, the latter must also be absent; the University Superior Council, with the assent of two-thirds of its members,
within eight days of the interim designation, the University Superior Council must convene the General University Assembly, so that the vacancy can be filled. If the absence is final, the chosen person will terminate the period of the replaced.
Null Appointments
Art. 83.-It shall not be appointed for the performance of administrative charges within the University, the spouse or the relatives within the fourth degree of consanguinity and the second degree of affinity, of the persons carrying out the Rector, Vice-Rector, Dean, Vice-
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Dean, Attorney General, University Rights Defender, Manager, Sub-Manager, Secretary General, Secretary of the Faculty, other Secretaries of the University and Directors of the Schools or Institutes.
in such posts to university students, without prior The authorization of the University Superior Council.
Except for the prohibition of this article the cases of those persons who are already providing their services in the University and that, consequently, the appointment only constitutes transfer or promotion within the regular order of appointment of the staff.
The appointments made in contravention of the provisions of this Article shall be null and void in accordance with the general rules of the This Act.
Advertising of the ordinances
Art. 84.-All orders of a general or specific nature that will dictate the organs of the university government and those that are required by the Law of Higher Education, will be published in the Official Journal and will enter into force eight days after the date of its publication, unless a longer period has been indicated in the order itself.
The legal proceedings, the University Superior Council or the University General Assembly, if any, will require the publication of the The law of the Court of Law, without any further requirement than the signatures and stamps of the Rector and the Secretary-General of the University or Board of Directors, if it is the General University Assembly.
If for any reason the publication in the Official Journal will be refused or rejected, it will be ordered in any of the national circulation newspapers, giving account of the disobedience to the President of the Republic for the corresponding legal effects.
CHAPTER XII TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS, REPEAL AND VALIDITY
Transition from authorities
Art. 85.-The present members of the General University Assembly shall, before the end of their period, encourage the election of the new representatives who integrate it, in accordance with the provisions of this Law.
Other officials whose It is up to the University General Assembly, as well as the members of the University Superior Council and the Boards of Faculty, to continue in their posts up to a hundred and twenty days more, after the period for which were elected, so that the new University General Assembly could elect the successors and install such organisms, in accordance with this Law.
Approval of Regulations
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Art. 86.-The general regulation of this Law must be issued by the corresponding university governing bodies, within a period of not more than one hundred and twenty days, counted from the installation of the new authorities, in accordance with the
The other general or specific regulations, necessary for the operation, execution and development of the provisions contained in this Law, must be issued by the university organizations. within a maximum of one hundred and eighty days from the date of the
As long as the approval and publication of the regulations referred to in this Article do not occur, the current ones shall continue to apply in all matters that do not contraven the provisions of this Law.
Set up the differentiated quota
Art. 87.-The differentiated quota regime referred to in Article 7 of this Law shall be effective from the academic period beginning in the year two thousand one.
Elaboration of the scale system
Art. 88.-The scale system referred to in Article 52 shall be drawn up and approved by the corresponding bodies within a period not greater than one hundred and eighty days from the time of the present Law.
Creation of the Defensoria
Art. 89.-The Office of the Ombudsman of the Rights of the Members of the University referred to in Article 62 of this Law shall be established from the year two thousand. The University Superior Council will take the necessary steps to establish them; they must plan and implement the budgetary adjustments for their operation and take the necessary steps to elect their holder.
Derogatory
Art. 90.-Derogase the Organic Law of the University of El Salvador, issued by Legislative Decree N/ 138, dated October 5, thousand nine hundred and seventy-two, published in the Official Journal N/ 193, Tomo N/ 237, dated 18 of the same month and year, thus as its subsequent reforms.
Likewise, repeal the Statutes and Regulations, in whole or in part, and the other internal provisions of the University, in all that would be contrary to this Law.
Vigency
Art. 91. This Law will enter into force eight days after its publication in the Official Journal.
GIVEN IN THE BLUE HALL OF THE LEGISLATIVE PALACE: San Salvador, at the twenty-nine days of the
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month of April of one thousand nine hundred and ninety nine.
JUAN DEH MARTÍNEZ PRESIDENTE
GERSON MARTÍNEZ CIRO CRUZ ZEPEDA FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT, SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT
RONAL UMANA NORMA FIDELIA GUEVARA DE RAMÍRIOS THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT FOURTH VICE PRESIDENT
JULIO ANTONIO GAMERO JOSE RAFAEL MACHUCA ZELAYA FIRST SECRETARY SECOND SECRETARY
ALFONSO ARISTIDES ALVARENGA GERARDO ANTONIO SUVILLAGA THIRD SECRETARY FOURTH SECRETARY
ELVIA VIOLETA MENJÍVAR JORGE ALBERTO VILLACORTA MUNOZ FIFTH SECRETARY SIXTH SECRETARY
CASA PRESIDENTIAL: San Salvador, five days into the month of May, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine.
PUBESQUIESE,
ARMANDO CALDERÓN SOL President of the Republic.
ABIGAIL CASTRO DE PÉREZ Minister of Education.
D. O. No. 96 Took No. 343 Date: May 25, 1999
SPECIAL PROVISION RELATING TO THE EU SPECIAL FUND
D.L. NO 702, SEPTEMBER 9, 1999. OJ NO 198, T. 345, 23 OCTOBER 1999.
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