The president of the Dominican Republic Lawyers Association (CARD) says that the association would appoint a commission of five specialists to draw up a new and modern law for the association. Diego Jose Garcia said that they accept and respect the ruling of the Constitutional Court that declared them to be in violation of the Constitution Law 91-83 that created the organization. The law said that membership of the organization is obligatory in order to practice law in the country. However, the Constitutional Court said that the approval of the bill in 1983 was done in an irregular manner and thus ordered that Congress pass a new law, but also ordered that the law continue in effect provisionally until the new bill is passed. Garcia said that new bill could be passed in no more than six months after regional consultations.