Article 134 Political Constitution of the United Mexican States

The economic resources available to the Federation, the states (federal entities), the Municipalities and the territorial demarcations of Mexico City shall be administered with efficiency, efficacy, economy, transparency and honesty to satisfy the objectives to which they are destined.

The results of the exercise of said resources shall be evaluated by the technical instances that the Federation and the states (federal entities) respectively establish, with the object of fostering that the economic resources be assigned in the respective budgets in the terms of the preceding paragraph. The foregoing, without detriment to the provisions of articles 26, Subsection C, 74, section VI and 79 of this Constitution.

The public entities shall adjust their organic and occupational structures in accordance with the principles of rationality and republican austerity, eliminating all types of functional or organizational duplicities, attending to the needs of improvement and modernization of public management.

The remunerations of the electoral councilors, the electoral magistrates, heads of the secretariats of administrative bodies and heads of executive and technical areas or homologues of the National Electoral Institute (Instituto Nacional Electoral), the local public electoral bodies and the electoral courts of the states (federal entities), shall not exceed the limit established in article 127 of this Constitution and they may not acquire or contract with public resources medical, life or private pension expense insurance, individualized separation insurance, special savings funds, special retirement schemes or other benefits that are not provided for by law, decree, general provision, collective employment contract or general working conditions.

The acquisitions, leases and transfers of all kinds of goods, the provision of services of any nature and the contracting of works that they carry out, shall be awarded or carried out through public bids by means of public convocation so that solvent proposals be freely presented in a closed envelope, which shall be opened publicly, in order to assure the State the best conditions available as to price, quality, financing, timeliness and other pertinent circumstances.

When the bids referred to in the preceding paragraph are not suitable to assure said conditions, the laws shall establish the bases, procedures, rules, requirements and other elements to accredit the economy, efficacy, efficiency, impartiality and honesty that assure the best conditions for the State.

The handling of federal economic resources by the states (federal entities), the municipalities and the territorial demarcations of Mexico City shall be subject to the bases of this article and to the regulatory laws. The evaluation of the exercise of said resources shall be carried out by the technical instances of the states (federal entities) referred to in the second paragraph of this article.

The public officials shall be responsible for compliance with these bases in the terms of Title Fourth of this Constitution.

The public officials of the Federation, the states (federal entities), the Municipalities and the territorial demarcations of Mexico City have at all times the obligation to apply with impartiality the public resources that are under their responsibility, without influencing the equity of the competition among the political parties.

The propaganda, under any modality of social communication, that the public powers, the autonomous bodies, the dependencies and entities of the public administration and any other entity of the three orders of government disseminate as such, shall have an institutional character and informative, educational or social orientation purposes. In no case shall this propaganda include names, images, voices or symbols that imply personalized promotion of any public official.

The laws, in their respective fields of application, shall guarantee strict compliance with the provisions of the two preceding paragraphs, including the sanctions regime that may apply.