State Act

Code of Comunidades of 1961

Art. 210 – In order to carry out the preparation of the Tombo (register of the properties) of each comunidade, a brigade shall be constituted as follows:– one surveyor requisitioned by the administrator from the Directorate of Economic Services, one informer, one measurer chosen by the surveyor and two labourers to carry the instruments and to help in the measurements. § 1. The work to carry the inventory of properties of each comunidade shall not be executed by more than one brigade simultaneously. § 2. The appointment of informers shall be made by the administrator, on the basis of a proposal from the managing committee that will suggest a list that contains names, not less than twice the number deemed sufficient, however the individuals suggested should satisfy the requirements indicated in the following paragraph. § 3. The informers of each brigade shall be replaced in such a way that to each property or fraction of it corresponds to an informer that have full knowledge of the same, and each of them shall be notified by the clerk of the comunidade, to when their information may be required. § 4. The surveyor is bound to bring to the notice of the administrator, in writing, about the incompetence, unsuitability or lack of zeal that he may notice in any of the informers, who attend to the work of preparation of the cadastre (Tombo). Copies of these communications shall be sent to the Directorate of Economic Services. § 5. All the works of preparation of cadastre shall be supervised by the director of Economic Services and by the administrator. The technical supervision over these works shall be of the exclusive responsibility of the former or of the heads of the competent departments of the same Directorate.