Resolution 079/2010

BOARD RESOLUTION NO. 079/2010
SUBJECT: MONETARY OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT – AUTHORIZES MONETIZATION OF Bs2.- CUT COINS

HAVING VIEWED:
Law No. 901 of November 28, 1986, which creates the "Boliviano" as the legal and mandatory unit of currency.
Law No. 1670 of October 31, 1995.
The Statute of the Central Bank of Bolivia of October 21, 2005.
The Regulation on the Issuance, Exchange, and Destruction of Monetary Material, approved by Board Resolution No. 047/2009 of April 14, 2009.
The Coin Minting Contract SANO No. 078/2009 of May 19, 2009, and its Amending Addendum SANO No. 113/2009 of June 15, 2009, signed between the BCB and the Chilean Mint. The Report from the Monetary Operations Management BCB-GOM-STES-INF-2010-95 of June 28, 2010. The Report from the Legal Affairs Management BCB-GAL-SANO-INF-2010-206 of July 1, 2010.

CONSIDERING:
That Article 1 of Law No. 901 creates the Boliviano as the unit of the State's monetary system, through banknotes and coins that the Central Bank of Bolivia will issue and circulate as legal tender, starting from January 1, 1987. That according to Article 10 of Law No. 1670, the Central Bank of Bolivia exercises exclusively and non-delegably the function of issuing Bolivia's monetary unit, in the form of banknotes and metal coins. That in accordance with the Coin Minting Contract and its Amending Addendum, the Central Bank of Bolivia has received the seventeenth receipt of metal monetary material from the Chilean Mint. That it is the attribution of the Board according to Article 54, paragraph m) of Law No. 1670 and numeral 11 of Article 11 of the Statute, to authorize and supervise the issuance of banknotes and coins. That Article 9 of the Regulation for the Issuance, Exchange, and Destruction of Monetary Material establishes that it is the faculty of the BCB Board to authorize the monetization of banknotes and coins.

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That the Report BCB-GOM-STES-INF-2010-95 considers the monetization of Bs2.- cut coins necessary and recommends that the BCB Board consider the monetization of the monetary material delivered into vault by the provider, the Chilean Mint. That in the opinion of the Legal Affairs Management according to Report BCB-GAL-SANO-INF-2010-206, there is no legal impediment for the BCB Board, in attention to its faculties and competencies, to approve the monetization of Bs2.- cut coins.

THEREFORE
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE CENTRAL BANK OF BOLIVIA RESOLVES:

Article 1.- Authorize the monetization of Bs2.- cut coins according to the following detail:

CUT NUMBER OF PIECES VALUE IN Bs.
2.- 13,800,000 27,600,000
TOTAL 13,800,000 27,600,000

Article 2.- Designate the Vice President of the Board, Rolando Marín, to represent the Board in the act of monetization of the cited material.

Article 3.- The Presidency and General Management are charged with the execution and compliance of this Resolution.

La Paz, July 6, 2010

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Gabriel Loza Tellería

______________________ _______________________ Gustavo Blacutt Alcalá Hugo Dorado Araníbar

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Rolando Marín Ibáñez Ernesto Yáñez Aguilar Rafael Boyán Téllez