SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS AND PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA
OFFICE OF THE RECTOR-PRESIDENT
SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY
UNIVERSITY OF XARAGUA
GENERAL ARCHIVES OF THE STATE
SUPREME ORGANIC DECREE
ON THE NATIONAL CALENDAR, OFFICIAL CHRONOLOGY, TEMPORAL ADMINISTRATION, ACADEMIC PERIODS, AND COORDINATION WITH THE CATHOLIC LITURGICAL CALENDAR
Official Classification: Supreme Organic Instrument — Constitutional Administrative Law — National Calendar Act — Official Chronology and Temporal Administration Framework
Date of Enactment: 26 May 2025
Issuing Authority: Office of the Rector-President
Institutional Status: Governing Instrument of the Internal Legal Order of Xaragua
PREAMBLE
The Office of the Rector-President, exercising the supreme constitutional authority of the Sovereign Catholic Indigenous and Private State of Xaragua;
Considering the necessity of establishing a uniform juridical system governing official dates, institutional periods, academic sessions, commemorations, closures, deadlines, archival chronology, and the temporal effect of public instruments;
Affirming the authority of Xaragua to maintain and administer its constitutional, governmental, academic, customary, historical, and institutional chronology;
Recognizing the autonomous competence of the Catholic Church over its liturgical calendar pursuant to Canons 1244–1253 of the Code of Canon Law and the competent universal and particular liturgical norms;
Having regard to Articles 4, 5, 11, 12, 13, 14, 31, 33 and 34 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and Articles 13 and 15 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights;
Hereby promulgates the following Supreme Organic Decree:
TITLE I — CONSTITUTION AND AUTHORITY OF THE NATIONAL CALENDAR
ARTICLE 1 — ESTABLISHMENT
a) The National Calendar of Xaragua is hereby constituted as the authoritative consolidated register of dates and periods possessing constitutional, governmental, administrative, academic, historical, diplomatic, military, customary, religious-reference, or institutional significance within the Xaraguayan legal order.
b) The National Calendar shall govern only those institutions, authorities, persons, procedures, and acts falling within the jurisdiction assigned to it by competent Xaraguayan law.
c) No calendar entry shall possess a legal effect exceeding that expressly conferred by its constitutive instrument.
ARTICLE 2 — FUNCTIONS
The National Calendar shall operate as:
a) the official chronological register of the State;
b) the temporal framework for constitutional and administrative activity;
c) the consolidated record of legally established observances, periods, anniversaries, deadlines, closures, and commemorations;
d) the coordinating instrument for State and university calendars; and
e) the archival authority for determining the legal source, classification, duration, recurrence, and institutional effect of every registered entry.
ARTICLE 3 — EXCLUSIVE SOURCE OF OFFICIAL STATUS
a) No date shall acquire official status through informal observance, public repetition, website publication, ceremonial practice, administrative convenience, or unsupported custom.
b) Official status shall arise exclusively from a constitution, law, decree, proclamation, academic instrument, customary determination, ecclesiastical source, or other act issued by a competent authority.
c) The historical recording of an event shall not, by itself, establish a holiday, commemoration, closure, recess, or mandatory observance.
TITLE II — CLASSIFICATION AND LEGAL EFFECT
ARTICLE 4 — OFFICIAL CLASSIFICATIONS
Every registered date or period shall be assigned one or more of the following juridical classifications:
a) Constitutional Date;
b) State or Governmental Observance;
c) Administrative Date or Period;
d) Academic Date or Period;
e) Historical Commemoration;
f) Indigenous Community or Customary Observance;
g) Catholic Liturgical Reference;
h) Diplomatic or External Relations Observance;
i) Military or Public Service Observance; or
j) Institutional Anniversary.
These classifications shall remain legally distinct unless their cumulative application is expressly established.
ARTICLE 5 — DETERMINATION OF EFFECT
A constitutive instrument may expressly establish:
a) an official commemoration;
b) a mandatory institutional observance;
c) an administrative or academic deadline;
d) the commencement, suspension, or termination of a period;
e) a day of institutional closure or rest;
f) an academic recess;
g) a recurring or non-recurring ceremony;
h) a reporting, filing, examination, registration, or publication date; or
i) a commemorative designation without interruption of ordinary operations.
No such consequence shall be presumed.
ARTICLE 6 — COMMEMORATION, REST, AND CLOSURE
a) An official commemoration shall not automatically constitute a day of rest.
b) A day of rest shall not automatically require the closure of every institution.
c) An academic recess shall not constitute a State-wide administrative closure.
d) A Catholic solemnity or holy day shall not constitute a civil closure unless separately designated by competent Xaraguayan authority.
e) Every calendar entry shall state whether ordinary institutional operations continue, are modified, or are suspended.
TITLE III — COMPETENT AUTHORITIES
ARTICLE 7 — OFFICE OF THE RECTOR-PRESIDENT
a) The Office of the Rector-President shall possess supreme competence to establish constitutional dates, State observances, governmental commemorations, diplomatic observances, military remembrances, national anniversaries, and State-wide closures.
b) Such determinations shall be made through an instrument authorized by the constitutional order of Xaragua.
c) No subordinate organ may modify, suspend, or repeal a State-level calendar designation.
ARTICLE 8 — UNIVERSITY OF XARAGUA
a) The University of Xaragua shall determine its academic calendar under its constitutional and academic competence.
b) The academic calendar may regulate admissions, registration, instruction, examinations, submissions, academic sessions, convocations, ceremonies, recesses, and institutional deadlines.
c) An academic calendar determination shall apply within the University and its affiliated academic structures and shall not acquire State-wide effect without a separate competent act.
ARTICLE 9 — INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES AND CUSTOMARY INSTITUTIONS
a) Autonomous Indigenous communities and competent customary institutions retain authority over observances, ceremonies, periods, and commemorations proper to their internal orders.
b) A community observance shall not automatically constitute a national observance.
c) National classification shall require an express act of the competent State authority, without extinguishing the distinct customary basis of the observance.
TITLE IV — CATHOLIC LITURGICAL ORDER
ARTICLE 10 — ECCLESIASTICAL COMPETENCE
a) Catholic liturgical seasons, solemnities, feasts, memorials, holy days of obligation, fasts, and days of penance shall be determined exclusively under the law and authority of the Catholic Church.
b) The National Calendar shall neither create nor alter an ecclesiastical classification.
c) References to the Catholic liturgical calendar shall conform to Canons 1244–1253 of the Code of Canon Law, the General Norms for the Liturgical Year and the Calendar, and the determinations of competent ecclesiastical authority.
ARTICLE 11 — COEXISTENCE OF TEMPORAL ORDERS
The institutional chronology of Xaragua recognizes:
a) the National Calendar, governing civil, constitutional, administrative, academic, historical, customary, diplomatic, military, and institutional time; and
b) the Catholic Liturgical Calendar, governing the liturgical life of the Church.
A single date may possess separate civil and ecclesiastical classifications, each deriving its legal effect exclusively from its competent order.
TITLE V — OFFICIAL CHRONOLOGY AND COMPUTATION
ARTICLE 12 — OFFICIAL DATING SYSTEM
a) The Gregorian civil calendar shall constitute the ordinary dating system for all Xaraguayan public instruments.
b) Every official instrument shall identify its date of enactment, promulgation, issuance, registration, publication, or entry into force, as applicable.
c) Ecclesiastical, customary, ancestral, regnal, historical, or institutional chronological references may be added but shall not replace or obscure the official civil date.
ARTICLE 13 — CHRONOLOGICAL EFFECT OF ACTS
a) The date of an instrument shall be distinguished from its date of publication, registration, notification, and entry into force.
b) The legal chronology applicable to an act shall be determined by the law governing that act.
c) Registration in the National Calendar shall not retroactively modify the original date or legal effect of an instrument.
ARTICLE 14 — COMPUTATION OF PERIODS
a) Governmental, administrative, judicial, academic, contractual, electoral, and financial periods shall be computed according to the specialized law or instrument governing the matter.
b) Unless otherwise provided, a calendar day means every day appearing in the Gregorian calendar, and a working day means a day on which the competent institution is ordinarily open.
c) Where the final day of a period falls on an expressly established closure day, the consequence shall be determined by the applicable specialized rule.
d) The National Calendar shall not displace a competent statutory, judicial, contractual, or academic rule of computation.
TITLE VI — GENERAL REGISTER
ARTICLE 15 — ARCHIVAL AUTHORITY
a) The General Archives of the State shall maintain the official consolidated register of the National Calendar.
b) Each entry shall identify:
i. its official designation;
ii. its date or method of determination;
iii. its juridical classification;
iv. its constitutive authority and instrument;
v. its legal effect and institutional scope;
vi. its recurring or non-recurring character;
vii. its working, closure, recess, or commemorative status; and
viii. every amendment, suspension, replacement, or repeal.
c) Archival registration shall certify and consolidate an existing legal status but shall not independently create or enlarge that status.
ARTICLE 16 — SOURCE CONTROL AND HISTORICAL INTEGRITY
a) Every official entry shall remain traceable to its competent documentary source.
b) The Archives shall distinguish between:
i. the historical date of an event;
ii. the date of its formal recognition;
iii. the date upon which an observance was established; and
iv. the date upon which the corresponding instrument entered into force.
c) Where evidence is insufficient, the date shall be entered as provisional, approximate, disputed, or undetermined and shall not be represented as conclusively established.
d) No correction, consolidation, or reclassification shall erase the original archival record.
TITLE VII — CONSOLIDATION AND AMENDMENT
ARTICLE 17 — CONSOLIDATED PUBLICATION
a) The General Archives of the State may publish periodic consolidated editions of the National Calendar.
b) Consolidation constitutes an act of administrative organization and public notice.
c) In the event of discrepancy, the competent constitutive instrument shall prevail over the consolidated publication.
ARTICLE 18 — MODIFICATION OF ENTRIES
a) An authority may establish, modify, suspend, or repeal a calendar entry only within its legally assigned competence.
b) Every modification shall be transmitted to the General Archives of the State for registration.
c) Amendment of an individual calendar entry shall not require reenactment of this Supreme Organic Decree.
TITLE VIII — EXTERNAL TEMPORAL INTEROPERABILITY
ARTICLE 19 — EXTERNAL SYSTEMS
a) Xaraguayan institutions may observe external working days, banking days, judicial dates, transportation schedules, commercial deadlines, academic periods, or international procedural dates where necessary for a specific external transaction or institutional relationship.
b) Such observance shall be functional, limited, and without incorporative effect.
c) Compliance with an external deadline shall not confer Xaraguayan official status upon the external calendar from which that deadline derives.
ARTICLE 20 — RESIDUAL ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT
a) Where an interface with the Residual Administrative Unit requires compliance with an administrative, judicial, banking, registration, educational, transportation, commercial, or public-service date, the competent Xaraguayan institution may observe that date to the extent strictly necessary for the matter concerned.
b) Such observance constitutes administrative interoperability and shall not incorporate the RAU calendar into the National Calendar of Xaragua.
c) No external temporal requirement shall modify the internal classification or legal effect of a Xaraguayan calendar entry.
TITLE IX — SUPREMACY AND FINAL PROVISIONS
ARTICLE 21 — ORGANIC SUPREMACY
a) This Decree governs the classification, administration, consolidation, publication, and interpretation of the National Calendar.
b) Subordinate calendars, schedules, registers, and institutional publications shall conform to this Decree.
c) Specialized temporal rules established by competent law shall prevail within their specific subject matter.
d) Nothing herein transfers a competence legally assigned to the Office of the Rector-President, the University of Xaragua, an autonomous Indigenous community, a customary institution, or competent ecclesiastical authority.
ARTICLE 22 — GOVERNING PRINCIPLES
For the avoidance of legal ambiguity:
a) no historical date automatically constitutes an official observance;
b) no official observance automatically constitutes a closure;
c) no Catholic liturgical observance automatically constitutes a civil holiday;
d) no academic date automatically possesses State-wide effect;
e) no community observance automatically possesses national status; and
f) every temporal designation derives its classification, jurisdiction, and legal consequence from its competent constitutive instrument.
ARTICLE 23 — ENTRY INTO FORCE
This Supreme Organic Decree shall enter into force on 26 May 2025 and shall constitute the governing organic framework for all subsequent classifications, registrations, consolidations, and institutional determinations concerning the National Calendar of Xaragua.
PROMULGATED BY THE OFFICE OF THE RECTOR-PRESIDENT
Monsignor Pascal Despuzeau Daumec Viaud
Rector-President
Sovereign Catholic Indigenous and Private State of Xaragua
UNIVERSITY OF XARAGUA
GENERAL ARCHIVES OF THE STATE