State Act
Section 253
Art. 253 – All the fields belonging to the private owners, who make use of the irrigation works executed by the comunidade, shall pay in the month of November of each year, to the same comunidade a charge fixed by the managing committee and approved by the administrator, which shall not be higher than the one that the State receives on account of waters of the Channel of Paroda’ nor below 50 per cent of that charge, same charge being applicable for the contracts previous to the publication of this Code. § 1 After the charges have been calculated, the private owners shall sign before the managing committee a declaration that they wish to utilize the water and undertake to pay the said charge, and this declaration shall have effects till it is not modified or revoked by another. § 2 The operator of water supply of the irrigation work does not have right to any payment in money or kind, besides the auction premium.