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Article 478
 

478.1. For the purposes of this Chapter, the following will be considered as public servants of the Institute: the President Councilor, the Electoral Councilors of the General Council and of the local and district councils, the Executive Secretary, the Comptroller General, the Executive Directors, the head of the Technical Auditing Unit of the Auditing Commission, the heads of the administrative units, the executives members of the decentralized bodies, the officials and employees, and, in general, any person who has a job, position or commission of any nature in the Institute. These will be responsible for the actions or omissions which they commit in the performance of their respective functions.


478.2. The Comptroller General’s Office of the Institute, its head and its staff, independently of their level, are prevented from intervening or interfering in any way in the performance of the powers and exercise of the attributions of an electoral nature that the Constitution and this Law bestows on the officials of the Institute.