State Act
Section 125
Art. 125 – The administrator of comunidades has powers to:– 1. Enforce and get the enforcement done of the provisions of this Code, the contracts entered with the comunidades and all the resolutions and decisions of the higher authorities; 2. Maintain order and discipline in service of the offices of the comunidades under his supervision; 49[3-to order for the preparation, in October of each year, of the budget of the Administration of each Zone, dividing it proportionately among the Comunidades based on their annual income, and submit it for the approval of the Government. The income of the tithes of "dessaides" shall be included in the budget of the Administrator of Comunidades of North Zone.] 3. Enforce the collection of supplementary derrama when there are extraordinary expenses, duly authorized; 4. Inform the comunidades and the parties concerned, by 15th December, of the share of derrama which they are required to pay, and at appropriate time, the share in an extraordinary derrama. The recovery of the respective instalments, either by voluntarily payment or by coercive matter, shall be done by the provisions in this Code; 5. Write the opening and closing declarations and initial the books referred to in articles 440 and 445 or in respect of the comunidades books or to authorize the secretary or the administrative assistants of the administration office, to do this work; 6. Preside over the visits, inspections and auctions as well as handing over and giving possession of land; 7. Inspect the books and accounts of the comunidades, check whether the comunidade clerks are following their duties and obligations mainly those relating to working hours and residence at the seat, and take action, in accordance with this Code, against those violating those obligations; 8. Approve the annual income and expenditure sheets of the comunidades and the calculations and terms of ordinary auctions; 9. To inspect the archives and check the balance of the safe, when he finds it convenient or when requested, denouncing the deviation of books or cash from the safe; 10. Exercise the powers of the managing committee in the cases and under such terms set out in article 70; 11. Attend, whenever he finds it convenient, the meetings of the comunidades and those of the managing committees; 12. Propose the appointment and dismissal of the president of the managing committee, the dissolution of the elected part of the same, in terms set forth in this Code, and the appointment of persons who should function as members of the committee, in cases provided for in the § 2 of articles 41 and 51 and § 1 of article 69; 13. Take oath of office of the staff members under him, as well as of members of the managing committee and other agents of the comunidades. He may however delegate these functions to the president of the committee, who had already taken the oath of office; 14. Authorize the payment of percentages referred to in article 108 of this Code; 15. Propose to the Government the meetings of the comunidades to be held at seat of the taluka or in the building of the administration office and order the meetings of the board in these places; 16. Authorize the extraordinary meetings of the comunidades and of the committee, when they are not convened by their president; 17. Exercise disciplinary power in terms of law and impose the penalties established in No. 1 to 3 of article. 354 of the Overseas Civil Services Statutes (E.F.U.); 18. Decide the applications for registration or listing; 19. Take steps to fill temporarily the post of clerk; 20. Take notice and decide all the applications, complaints and appeals instituted against the acts that are not within the competence of higher authorities and offer his say on all the cases which have to be sent for a decision of the 50[Government] or the Administrative Tribunal; 21. Proceed in accordance with article 371 and the following, regarding encroachment on the lands of the comunidades; 22. Authorize the comunidades to file suits under the terms of the article 9 as well as authorize the necessary expenses; 23. Authorize every year, occasional or unforeseen expenses, which are not for any other purpose unconnected to the comunidades, up to 1.500 $ and the advance of amounts essential for covering the ordinary and extraordinary expenses, duly authorized, when they are not foreseen in the respective assignment or contract as well as the expenses necessary to defend the suits filed against the comunidades; 24. Withhold or order the retention of proceeds of zonns dividends or any other credits that the debtors may have in the comunidades until the latter have paid their dues and accessory amounts, when these dues have not been guaranteed for; 25. Arrange for the coercive collection, in accordance with the terms of Title V, of the comunidades dues, acting as judge in the respective proceedings; 26. Distribute the cases for recovery of debts, referred to in the preceding number, among the enforcement clerks, equally and by lots, in three classes, according to the value referred to in § 1 of article 627; 27. Decide by 31st of October of the following year, the yearly accounts of the persons responsible to the comunidade, forwarding by the 15th November, the respective statement to the Administrative Tribunal. Failure to comply with would incur payment of fine corresponding to 5% of the ordinary fees collected; 28. Forward to the treasury department of the taluka, every month, a note of the remissions made in the preceding month and a form for the payment of stamp duty on transfer of shares and for the respective tax corresponding to the normal emoluments recovered in the preceding month; 29. Take delivery of the extraordinary services and works valued in excess of 3000 $ and of the ordinary works in case of appeal or complaint against the taking of the delivery by the managing committee; 30. Present to the 51[Government], by the 31st of March of every year, a report of the management of the comunidades for the preceding year, mentioning therein the important facts of his administration and indicating the means, he thinks fit, to adopt in order to increase and improve crops. This report shall be accompanied by a statistical map of the office’s work, a map showing the movement of the shares of comunidades, organized according to model No. 5, a map showing the dividends and zonns distributed by each comunidade, in each of the last nine years, a statement indicating the grants as emphyteusis (aforamentos) granted and a map showing the extraordinary expenses incurred by each comunidade in the preceding year and other information as he sees fit deemed useful. Failure to comply with would incur in payment of a fine corresponding to the salary for the number of days delay.