State Act
Section 25
Art. 25 – The proceeds of zonns, and interests of any nature of a deceased member and the dividends of the shares registered and inscribed in the name of the deceased member of an inheritance can be received by the head of family, upon production of an order issued by the administrator, based on the certified copy of a pending inventory. § 1. When the proceeds of zonn, amount of interests, or dividends do not exceed 7[Rs.500/-], the interested parties in the inheritance can receive the same, by producing a certificate, issued by the clerk of the comunidade, to the effect that he had issued notices of claim, within a time limit of 30 days, at the door of a temple of any religion existing in the village, at the door of meeting hall of the comunidades and at that of the respective office of the administrator and published in the Official Gazette, being one of the copy presented to the managing committee, when in meeting, and passed without objection from any of the members, in the respective meeting. Where the amount to be received does not exceed 8[Rs.50], the publication in the Official Gazette is dispensed with. 9[Explanation:- In the Code of Comunidades, wherever any amount is indicated in escudos, the same shall be calculated at the rate of six escudos per rupee.] § 2. The authorization granted by the administrator, for the purposes of provision in this article, shall be valid for the subsequent years and shall subsist until the inheritance, in the inventory proceedings, has been finally partitioned. § 3. If the objections are disputed or when there is litigation pending about the legitimacy of heirs, the proceeds, the interests and the dividends shall be retained on deposit in the safe of the comunidade and the objection shall be attached to the file of proceedings. In this case, the prescription provided in paragraph 3 of articles 21and 22 of this Code shall not be applicable. § 4. The provision of this article and its paragraphs shall be applicable to the pensions dealt with in the article 202.