Bill 563.

Summary.

The bill creates the corregimiento of Punta Alegre by separating it from the corregimiento of La Palma, which it identifies as the seat, within Chepigana District, Darién Province. The provision places the new corregimiento in the district’s political and administrative division and identifies the corregimiento from which its territory would be taken. The bill provides that Punta Alegre would be the seat of the new corregimiento, which would also include the communities of Mogue, Llano Bonito, and La India.

To establish the corregimiento’s boundaries, the bill assigns responsibilities to the Ministry of Government (Ministerio de Gobierno), the Tommy Guardia National Geographic Institute (Instituto Geográfico Nacional "Tommy Guardia"), and the National Land Administration Authority (Autoridad Nacional de Administración de Tierras). These institutions would provide the geospatial information, maps, and official physical boundary demarcation on which boundary decisions would be based. The work would be carried out in coordination with the Municipality of Chepigana (Municipio de Chepigana) and would use historical boundaries and the current geographic distribution as its basis. The text thus links the definition of the new corregimiento’s territory to technical information from those institutions and coordination with the municipality.

The bill directs the Executive Branch (Órgano Ejecutivo), through the Ministry of Government, to adopt the administrative and budgetary measures needed to organize and put the corregimiento of Punta Alegre into operation. It sets a deadline of no more than 6 months for this work. It also requires the Municipality of Chepigana to make the corresponding changes to its administrative, budgetary, and electoral structure to include the new corregimiento in its political and administrative division. These provisions assign tasks to both the central government and the municipality to incorporate the new jurisdiction into their respective operations.

The Electoral Tribunal (Tribunal Electoral) would be responsible for the administrative, electoral, and registry adjustments needed to create and operate the corregimiento. The bill sets a deadline of no more than 12 months for that work. Finally, it provides that the proposed law would take effect upon its promulgation. Its provisions create a new political and administrative unit and allocate the actions required to define its boundaries and incorporate it into institutional operations.

The bill concerns the Ministry of Government, the Tommy Guardia National Geographic Institute, the National Land Administration Authority, the Executive Branch, the Municipality of Chepigana, and the Electoral Tribunal. It also concerns the communities of Punta Alegre, Mogue, Llano Bonito, and La India, as well as the territorial organization of Chepigana District and Darién Province. Because of its administrative, budgetary, electoral, and registry provisions, it could be of interest to residents of those communities and to people carrying out procedures or activities subject to the corregimiento’s territorial boundaries.