Law Decree Nº30, Cuban Award Regulations

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CHAPTER III

ABOUT THE PROPOSALS AND TRAMITS FOR THE AWARDING OF AWARDS, HONORIFIC TITLES AND DISTINCTIONS

ARTICLE 20. The merits or requirements for which the awards, honorific titles and distinctions will be awarded, are established in Law Decree No. 30, of December 10th, 1979 and in their corresponding statutes and regulations.

ARTICLE 21. According to Article 24 of Law No. 17, of June 28, 1978, proposals for awarding will be worked out according to the official proceeding model of proposals.

ARTICLE 22. Once the proposals have been formulated and the proceedings signed by the working center or company administration or by the chairman of the political, social or mass organization where the candidate belongs, works or serves and by the corresponding committee secretary, these will be sent to their superior instances for their approval or rejection.

ARTICLE 23. The analyzed and approved proposals by the instances referred in the latter article, will be raised, according to their subordination to the National Directorate of the political, social and mass organisms or organizations.

ARTICLE 24. Once approved and signed the proposals by the national instance, the ministers or chiefs of organisms of political, social and mass organizations, will remit them to the State Council, through the Section of Awards and Honorific Titles, according to the established in Articles 30 and 31 of the latter mentioned Law.

ARTICLE 25. When proposals recommend the awarding of a Honorific Title, as well as the proposals model, a detailed report of the candidate’s activities and merits will be attached, which will be signed by ministers or chiefs of organisms or national chairmen of political, social and mass organizations.

ARTICLE 26. The awarding proposals of awards and honorific titles which come from local organs of the Municipal People’s Power for workers who belong to entities having double subordination, will be classified by administrative directorates and raised to the provincial instance and from it to the National Directorate of the central organ or entity of the corresponding branch or sector, which, after approval, will send it to the State Council via Section of Awards and Honorific Titles.

ARTICLE 27. The awarding proposals of awards and honorific titles for workers of local organs of the People’s Power, whose activity has not a double subordination to a central (national) rank organism, will be sent by municipal instances to province ones and from these to the State Council via Section of Awards and Honorific Titles.

ARTICLE 28. The local organ of the People’s Power of the Youth Island will make its proposals in the same way, sending them directly to the central organism, or to the State Council via Section of Awards and Honorific Titles, depending on the case.

ARTICLE 29. The awarding proposals of awards, honorific titles and distinctions in the military, will be approved and signed, in each case, by the Chief of the Military Unit who due to their rank has powers, according to the dispositions established by the Ministers of the Revolutionary Armed Forces and Internal Affairs.

ARTICLE 30. Awarding proposals of distinctions will be decided by organisms and organizations granted by the State Council to award them.

ARTICLE 31. Distinctions of the National Syndicates will be awarded by their executive secretariats together with ministers or chiefs of the organisms which rule the activity.

ARTICLE 32. When it comes to awarding of distinctions to workers subordinated only to the local organs of the People’s Power, the executive secretariats of the National Syndicates will award the m　together with the President of the People’s Power Provincial Executive Committee to which it belongs.

ARTICLE 33. Political, social and mass organisms and organizations, for the elaboration of their proposals, together with the official model, will be able to request all necessary information from the different instances subordinated to them.

ARTICLE 34. Cuban citizens, in order to accept an award, honorific title or distinction awarded from a foreign country, must be previously authorized by the organism in which they serve.

ARTICLE 35. Political, social and mass organisms and organizations, will be able to suggest to other organism or entity candidate proposals for awarding of awards and honorific titles, which, according to the established in the respective statutes and regulations, only this one must propose.

ARTICLE 36. Sanctioned people because of criminal cause or being prosecuted by criminal causes which damage their public reputation, cannot be proposed for awarding.
If the fact takes place after the proposal, it will be declared null, specifying the motif.