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Costa Rican nationality law is regulated by the Options and Naturalizations Act (Spanish: Ley de Opciones y Naturalizaciones), which was originally named the Immigration and Naturalization Act and established under the 1949 Constitution. [1] These laws determine who is, or is eligible to be, a citizen of Costa Rica.
The Constitution of Costa Rica is the supreme law of Costa Rica. At the end of the 1948 Costa Rican Civil War , José Figueres Ferrer oversaw the Costa Rican Constitutional Assembly , which drafted the document.
The Constitution of Costa Rica states, "For Public Administration purposes, the national territory is divided into provinces, these into cantons and cantons into districts." The country consists of 7 provinces (provincias), 84 cantons (cantones), and 489 districts (distritos). [2]
The history of codification dates back to ancient Babylon.The earliest surviving civil code is the Code of Ur-Nammu, written around 2100–2050 BC.The Corpus Juris Civilis, a codification of Roman law produced between 529 and 534 AD by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I, forms the basis of civil law legal systems that would rule over Continental Europe.
Same-sex marriage has been legal in Costa Rica since May 26, 2020 as a result of a ruling by the Supreme Court of Justice.Costa Rica was the first country in Central America to recognize and perform same-sex marriages, the third in North America after Canada and the United States, [1] and the 28th to do so worldwide.
After the Costa Rican Civil War, the school was moved to a new building 100 meters past San Isidro de El General's main entrance. It currently serves under the name "Escuela 12 de Marzo", in honor of the start of the Costa Rican Civil War (which had just ended when the school was re-inaugurated at its current location). [17]
According to Costa Rica's Municipal Code, mayors are elected every four years by the population of the canton. [4] As of the latest municipal elections in 2024, the National Liberation Party candidate, Fernando Miguel Chavarría Quirós, was elected mayor of the canton with 25.34% of the votes, with Reina Irene Campos Jiménez and Valeria Fernández Castillo as first and second vice mayors ...
Postal codes in Costa Rica are five-digit numeric, and were introduced in March 2013, they are associated with and identify a unique district in the country. They are managed by the Correos de Costa Rica, a government-controlled institution that provides postal service in the country.