コスタリカの大統領の一覧
第140条には、他の閣僚とともに、大統領の責務が以下の通りに記述されている。
To freely appoint and to remove the members of the public force, the employees and functionaries who serve offices of confidence, and the others that, in very qualified cases, the Law of [the] Civil Service determines;
To appoint and to remove, subject to the requirements provided by the Law of [the] Civil Service, the rest of the [public] servants of their dependency;
To sanction and promulgate the laws, regulate them, execute them, and see to their exact fulfillment;