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Article 101
• Requirements for birthright citizenship
• Requirements for birthright citizenship
• Right to transfer property
• Emergency provisions
• Protection of environment
• Economic plans
• Right to information
• Freedom of press
• Reference to science
• Right to work
• Subsidiary unit government
• Budget bills
The law establishes the rules concerning:
• citizenship, civic rights and the exercise of the public freedoms;
• constraints arising from the necessities of the National Defense;
• nationality, the state and capacity of persons, the matrimonial regimes;
• inheritance and gifts;
• the procedure according to which custom may be asserted and harmonized
with the fundamental principles of the Constitution;
• the promotion of gender;
• the determination of crimes and misdemeanors, as well as the penalties
which are applicable to them, the penal procedure, [and] amnesty;
• the organization of judicial and administrative tribunals and the procedure
before these jurisdictions, the status of the magistrates, [and] of the
ministerial and auxiliary officers of justice;
• the basis, the rate and the modalities of collecting taxes of all kinds;
• the regime of the issuance of money;
• the electoral regime of the National Assembly, of the Senate and of the
local assemblies;
• the nationalization of enterprises and the transfers of property of
enterprises of the public sector to the private sector;
• the creation of categories of public establishments;
• the state of siege and the state of urgency.
The law determines the fundamental principles:
• of the protection and of the promotion of the environment;
• of the drafting, of the execution and of the review of the national plans and
programs of development;
• of the protection of the freedom of the press and of the access to
information;
• of the general organization of the Administration;
• of the general status of the public function;
• of the organization of the national defense;
• of education and of scientific research;
• of the integration of the national cultural values;
• of the regime of property, of the rights of real property and of civil and
commercial obligations;
• of the right to work, of the syndical right, and of the social institutions;
• of the alienation and of the management of the domain of the State;
• of the penitentiary regime;
• of insurance and of savings;
• of the organization of production;
• of the regime of transportation and communications;
• of the free administration of the territorial collectivities, of their
competences and of their resources.
Article 102
The law of finance determines, for each year, the resources and the obligations of the
State. The bill of the law of finance must specify the receipts necessary for the
Burkina Faso 1991 (rev. 2012)
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