Deputies approve the National 9-1-1 Emergency System
Bill is declared to be urgent and gets two consecutive readings
SD. The Chamber of Deputies declared the bill establishing the 911 National 9-1-1 Emergency System to be urgent and approved it in two readings, and the new Civil Code in one reading.
Elpidio Baez, the chairman of the commission that studied the project said that the state will take on at first the cost of the program, but he felt that a second stage will be to be charged for in order to sustain the system.
The legislation says that they will reconfigure the entire emergency system throughout the country and for its implementation they are thinking of installing 1000 cameras at strategic places and the purchase of 300 vehicles for the police, 300 ambulances and motorcycles and 200 emergency unity, which implies an investment of over RD$2.0 billion.
Civil Code
The new items in the Civil Code establish that divorce is possible due to repeated rapes and it renewed the duties inherent in marriage: adultery by one of the spouses; a conviction of one of the spouses for a criminal offense; physical or psychological abuse by one spouse with respect to the other; charges and slander committed by one of the two; habitual drunkenness or the use of drugs and non-compatibility of character, justified by incidents that cause unhappiness of the spouses.
In the same way the law orders that at the request of the spouses, the judge could limit himself to stating in the motives of the sentence that there exist facts that constitute a cause for the divorce, without having to specify the accusations of the parties.
The new Civil Code will set, in its Article 236, that the spousal community property, either the plaintiff of the defendant in the divorce, can, starting with the filing, state the causes, take any measure to protect his/her rights.
In the same way the divorce will only take effect when the spouse that has obtained the divorce presents within two months a demand before the Civil Registry Official to proclaim the divorce and transcribes the sentence.
If a conventional arrangement between the spouses is lacking, the judge will pronounce sentence, and order the liquidation and the division of the community assets. He will also decide upon the requests for alimony and child support and can also concede to one or both spouses an advance on their part of the community property or assets.
The use and exercise of any of these rights will require the proof of the quality of the spouses. In the same way, the existence of a marital union in fact could be established by all of the approbatory methods that are judicially accepted; this proof could also come from a previous statement of both parties before a notary public.
Another new item is that each one of the spouses will administer, tax and dispose of his/her personal assets by his/herself and without the consent of the other spouse, as long as that person is following the matrimonial regime that they have chosen.
Elpidio Baez, the chairman of the commission that studied the project said that the state will take on at first the cost of the program, but he felt that a second stage will be to be charged for in order to sustain the system.
The legislation says that they will reconfigure the entire emergency system throughout the country and for its implementation they are thinking of installing 1000 cameras at strategic places and the purchase of 300 vehicles for the police, 300 ambulances and motorcycles and 200 emergency unity, which implies an investment of over RD$2.0 billion.
Civil Code
The new items in the Civil Code establish that divorce is possible due to repeated rapes and it renewed the duties inherent in marriage: adultery by one of the spouses; a conviction of one of the spouses for a criminal offense; physical or psychological abuse by one spouse with respect to the other; charges and slander committed by one of the two; habitual drunkenness or the use of drugs and non-compatibility of character, justified by incidents that cause unhappiness of the spouses.
In the same way the law orders that at the request of the spouses, the judge could limit himself to stating in the motives of the sentence that there exist facts that constitute a cause for the divorce, without having to specify the accusations of the parties.
The new Civil Code will set, in its Article 236, that the spousal community property, either the plaintiff of the defendant in the divorce, can, starting with the filing, state the causes, take any measure to protect his/her rights.
In the same way the divorce will only take effect when the spouse that has obtained the divorce presents within two months a demand before the Civil Registry Official to proclaim the divorce and transcribes the sentence.
If a conventional arrangement between the spouses is lacking, the judge will pronounce sentence, and order the liquidation and the division of the community assets. He will also decide upon the requests for alimony and child support and can also concede to one or both spouses an advance on their part of the community property or assets.
The use and exercise of any of these rights will require the proof of the quality of the spouses. In the same way, the existence of a marital union in fact could be established by all of the approbatory methods that are judicially accepted; this proof could also come from a previous statement of both parties before a notary public.
Another new item is that each one of the spouses will administer, tax and dispose of his/her personal assets by his/herself and without the consent of the other spouse, as long as that person is following the matrimonial regime that they have chosen.
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