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1. For the period of government which shall begin on September 15, 1940, the provisions of the present Organic Provincial Law shall govern, with the exception of the precepts of said Law or of any others that grant the Governor or the President of the Republic the faculty of suspending or removing local governing officers, or that of suspending resolutions of the Municipal Council or decrees of the Mayor or any other municipal authority, which shall not be applicable, in accordance with the provisions of paragraphs (a) and (b) of Article 217 of this Constitution, which shall become effective to the fullest extent during the said period of government.

The Governor shall have the faculty of impugning resolutions or decrees of municipalities or the commission referred to in paragraph (b) of Article 217. Until he procedure is established by law, the impugnation shall be effected before the corresponding Section of the respective Court of Appeals, by the steps of incidental civil actions.

The Governor shall also have the faculty of inspecting municipal finances and filing complaints with the Tribunal of Accounts.

2. The proportional quota referred to in paragraph (a) of article 242 of this Title XVI shall not be applicable in the period of government to which the preceding transitory provision refers, during which time article 63 of the present Organic Provincial Law shall govern for that purpose, without prejudice to the provisions of paragraphs (c) and (e) of Article 217 of this Constitution.

1. The Congress of the Republic, in a period of 3 sessions, shall enact an Organic Law of the Tribunal of Accounts and a General Law of Accounting of the Nation, the Provinces and the Municipalities; as well as of the autonomous bodies subject to check by the Tribunal of Accounts. Said General Law of Accounting shall fix the guarantees that must be given by persons who participate in the collection of the revenues and payments of said entity.