Decree on the Modalities of Organization and Functioning of the Departmental Collectivity

This decree, promulgated 1 February 2006 by transitional president Boniface Alexandre after deliberation in the Council of Ministers, fixes the modalities of organization and functioning of the departmental collectivity, the highest of the three tiers of territorial collectivity in Haiti's decentralization architecture, above the commune and the communal section. Across its titles the decree covers the department's legal personality and administrative and financial autonomy, the composition, election, powers and functioning of the Conseil Départemental and the Assemblée Départementale, the department's role in coordinating and harmonizing the development plans of the communes it groups, its own resources and budget, and the tutelle (supervisory) relationship with central government. It is one of four companion decrees dated the same day implementing the framework decree on decentralization (also held in this batch); the others cover the section communale, the commune, and the general framework itself. The corpus text is the native PDF text (not OCR).