In Colombia for those who do not know, the casinos or local slot machines must, among others, have a prior permission from the mayor of the city where they will be installed.

Many are the machines and casinos that are closing before the negative of municipal mayors to renew the so named use of floors. The municipal or district mayors have the power to issue the Prior Provisions, for the establishments of commerce where the activity of games of luck and chance are exploited, called Gaming Rooms or Casinos the Localized Games, thus defined by the Law 643 of 2001.

That is a Game Located. It is defined by the law in its article 32, such as bingos, video bingos, slots and those operated in casinos and the like.

Article 32. Localized games. They are games of luck and chance that operate with equipment or elements of games, in commercial establishments, to which the players attend like condition necessary to be able to bet, such as bingos, videobingos, machines swap coins, and the Operated in casinos and the similar. Games are those establishments that combine the operation of different types of games of those considered by this law as located or those establishments where the operation of games located with other commercial activities or services is combined. (......)

In addition, as this is a Law of Own Regime, in its article 35, orders and orders that the Localized Games, will be located in areas suitable for the development of commercial activities, and this is above the Municipal Agreements and Decrees of the POT (Territorial Reorganization Plan), As defined by the Constitutional Court in Judgment C1114 of 2003, and ETESA received it in Resolution 1553.

"Article 35. Location of localized games. The operation of the gaming modalities defined in this law as localized, shall be permitted in establishments of commerce located in zones suitable for the development of commercial activities. "

"If this is not met, the mayors would violate the Constitution, in Article 336, the judgment of the Constitutional Court and the Law 643 of 2001"

CARTA MAGNA "Art. 336, Subsection 3. The organization, administration, control and exploitation of monopolies shall be subject to their own regime, established by the Law of Governmental Initiative.

THE SENTENCE C 1114. Article 101 of Act 788 of 2002, which defined the Prior Concept as an application of the Territorial Reorganization Plan - P. O.T.

RESOLUTION 1553 OF ETESA.

"Taking into account that the rules in question were excluded from the legal system, they cannot be applied in any of the rules that contemplate them, both in Decree 2483 of 2003 and in Resolution 1074 of 2003."

"It means the above; That the Mayor's Preliminary Permit, should only be related to the fact that the commercial establishment where the located game will operate, is located in an area suitable for the development of commercial activities, as is clearly and unequivocally stated in Article 35 of the Law 643 of 2001. "

"THIRD ARTICLE: To specify that the Mayor's Preliminary Permit to operate gambling in the form of located, should only be related to the fact that the business establishment is located in areas suitable for the development of commercial activities. "

If mayors are unaware of the Constitution and the Law, in relation to the issuance of the Prior Favorable Concept, they would already be violating not only the Law of Own Regime, but the Political Constitution of Colombia of 1991, Judgment C1114 of 2003, legal document that is of mandatory compliance. And a serious fact, obstructing the collection of health rents for their governed and sponsoring evasion, which is a criminal offense (Penal Code Arts 312 and 313).

Regarding the Negative Renewal of Prior Favor Concepts, we remind the local leaders, who, in addition to violating the legal system noted above, would be against the "Legitimate Confidence" standard and not forget the Constitutional Mandate: ARTICLE 6.- "Individuals are only responsible to the authorities for violating the Constitution and laws. Public servants are responsible for the same cause and for omission or overstepping in the exercise of their functions."

Coljuegos must get his hand on this issue because as an adviser to camazar are several cases that I am taking companies and others but we all know that they are closing their establishments in the absence of this procedure, loses the entrepreneur, loses Coljuegos loses health, loses Colombia is losing jobs and all because of lack of support and infamous bureaucracy.