State Act

Code of Comunidades of 1961

Art. 29 – The following cannot be either voted for or appointed for the posts in the comunidade: (1) The shareholders, whose income in the comunidade, when the same is composed also of members by birth (zonnkars), is not, at least, equivalent to the minimum quota belonging to any of the zonnkars and, in the comunidades, exclusively comprised of shareholders, when the number of shares is greater than 500, those who do not possess, at least, five shares; (2) The non-emancipated minors and the interdicted; (3) Those who are indicted on the final judgment that has become definitive and those who have been sentenced for the crimes referred to in paragraph 4 of article 12, of Overseas Civil Services Statute (Estatuto do Funcionalismo Ultramarino); (4) The debtors to the comunidade or to subrogees, of the later, held as such, against whom a suit or execution is pending or even against whom a note of payment of debt in current account has been served; (5) The employees of the cadre of the civil administration, the members and employees of the Administrative Tribunal and the subordinate officials to the administrator; (6) The relatives of the administrator up to the 3rd degree; (7) The members of comunidade of either sex who may not know to read or write and count in Portuguese; (8) The foreigners. § 1. The condition referred to in No.7 may be waived in the talukas of Ponda, Bicholim, Quepem, Pernem, Sanguem and Canacona, where voting or appointment shall be made of persons who have knowledge of Marathi, excepting, in regard to the post of president of managing committee, whose incumbent should have at least passed 4th standard of primary education in Portuguese language. § 2. The relaxation referred to in paragraph 2 of preceding article is applicable to the clause 8 of this article.