Amendment of other Acts

The following provisions are hereby amended:

The text shall read as follows:

"Article 14 -

The executive official indicated in Article 169 of the Political Constitution shall be known as the municipal mayor.

There shall be two municipal vice mayors: a first vice mayor and a second vice mayor. The first vice mayor shall carry out administrative and operational functions assigned to them by the titular mayor; in addition, they shall also automatically replace the mayor when the latter is temporarily and definitively absent, with the same responsibilities and powers as the latter during the period of substitution.

When the first vice mayor cannot replace the mayor when the latter is temporarily or definitively absent, the second vice mayor shall replace the mayor automatically, with the same responsibilities and powers as the latter during the period of substitution.

In district municipal councils, the executive official stipulated in Article 7 of Act No. 8173 is the district intendant who shall have the same powers as the municipal mayor. Furthermore, these shall be a district vice-intendant, who shall carry out the administrative and operational functions assigned to them by the titular intendant. They shall also replace the district intendant automatically when the latter is temporarily and definitively absent, with the same responsibilities and powers as the latter during the period of substitution.

All popularly elected positions at municipal level stipulated by law shall be popularly elected by means of general elections to be held on the first Sunday in February, two years after the national elections in which the President and Vice Presidents of the Republic and the members of the Legislative Assembly shall be elected. They shall take office on May 1st of the same year of the election for a period of four years and can be reelected”.