(1966-09) Law setting the Development Budget's economic and social programs for the 1966/1967 fiscal year, drawn from the "Démarrage" economic-recovery plan
Summary — Signed by President-for-Life Dr. François Duvalier and published in Le Moniteur on 29 September 1966, this law selects which programs and projects from the government's "Le Démarrage" economic-recovery plan will be executed via the Development Budget for the fiscal year running 1 October 1966 to 30 September 1967, under the Commissariat National de Développement et de Planification.
Key Findings
- Sets the fiscal-year execution window (1 October 1966 - 30 September 1967) for development programs selected from the 'Le Démarrage' economic plan.
- Confirms an existing 1% levy on all autonomous public agencies' budgets feeding a Development-Budget Fonds d'Urgence at the Banque Nationale.
- References a January 1966 half-centime-per-pound export tax on green coffee as a development financing source.
- Exempts the Development Budget from the standard one-twelfth (douzième budgétaire) monthly disbursement rule.
- Places execution oversight jointly with the Commissariat National de Développement et de Planification and the Office du Budget, spanning eight sectoral ministries.
Full Description
This law, adopted on the joint report of the Secretaries of State for Finance, Commerce and Industry, Agriculture, Public Works, Labor, Education, Health and Population, builds on a legislative chain running from the 1963 law creating the Conseil National de Développement et de Planification through the September 1963 Economic Recovery Emergency Plan Law and successive 1964-1966 decrees strengthening development-budget financing (including a Fonds d'Urgence at the Banque Nationale de la République d'Haïti fed by a 1% levy on all autonomous agencies' budgets, and a January 1966 export tax of half a centime per pound of green coffee). Article 1 continues the Plan d'Urgence de Démarrage Economique within its approved means; Article 2 sets the execution period as 1 October 1966 to 30 September 1967 for programs listed in Annex A of the law (not included in the extracted pages); Article 3 delegates fund-release procedures to the Commissariat National de Développement et de Planification and the Office du Budget; Article 4 exempts the Development Budget from the standard 'douzième budgétaire' (one-twelfth monthly disbursement) rule, allowing the Banque Nationale to advance funds from the Pré-Investissement et Recherches allocation for Commissariat operating costs.