State Act

Code of Comunidades of 1961

Art. 247 – The estimate shall be completed by 21st April, signed by the attorney and clerk, and shall be kept for the examination of the interested parties in the archive office till the first Sunday of the month of May, on all working days and during the office hours. The interested persons may propose, in writing and on a plain paper, any alterations, which shall be handed over to the clerk of the comunidade or in the administration office of the comunidades, which in the latter case shall forward them, within twenty four hours, to the clerk of the comunidade. The estimates and alterations shall be examine in the following manner:– a) The managing committee shall meet in session on the first Sunday of May and the clerk of the comunidade shall present for its examination the estimate and all the proposals for revision that may have been received and that the committee shall accept or reject, correcting in the first case the estimate and the clauses, as per the proposals adopted and the rules as deem fit to apply, by recording all in the minutes, as well the reasons that justify these changes; b) On the first Sunday after the meeting of the managing committee, the comunidade shall meet, in continuous and uninterrupted session, convened by way of notice affixed, three days in advance, on the door of the meetings hall and of the temples of any religion existing in the village and by way of cry made in the places that may have been indicated and, after examining the estimate and the clauses, after introduction of the changes made by the committee, shall approve or modify the same as it thinks fit, by recording every thing in the minutes.