Political Constitution of Colombia (1991)

Members of Congress are prohibited from engaging in the following activities:

Holding public or private office or employment.

Managing in their own name or that of somebody else of public authorities or individuals that administer taxes, being invested with powers with them or to conclude contracts, on their own or through an intermediary, with them. An Act shall establish the exceptions to this provision.

Being a member of boards or executive committees of decentralized official entities of whatever level or institutions that administer taxes.

Concluding contracts or making arrangements with individuals or private legal entities that administer, manage, or invest public funds or are contractors of the state or receive subsidies from the latter. Excepted is the acquisition of goods or services that are offered to citizens in conditions of equality.

The profession of university teacher is excepted from the regime of incompatibilities.

The official who, in violation of the present article, appoints a member of Congress to a post or office or concludes a contract with him/her or accepts that he/she should act as business representative in his/her own name or that of a third party, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.