State Act
Section 294
Art. 294 – The auction, to be announced in advance, shall be held in one or more rounds. § 1. At the first bidding, only the cultivators who have actual residence in the village, for more than two years, may compete. § 2. If at the first bidding there remain lots without being taken in auction, the same shall be auctioned at the second bidding, to which the cultivators of the village of any taluka may compete. § 3. If still there are vacant lots, the same shall be auctioned in the third and subsequent sessions, with a reduced base price, as per article 266, to which all or any cultivator may compete, independently of the limit foreseen in article 296, after the third bidding. § 4. In the auction, each bid shall not be lesser than 6$. § 5. In the absence of bidders in the case envisaged in the paragraph 3, the lot shall be given through private negotiations for any price and for one year, being again put up to public auction in the subsequent year. 6. The lease holder who has cultivated the lot in the previous year, even if he has no actual residence, in the last two years, in the village of the comunidade, shall have right to option in the first and second bidding, at the time of auction, soon after the price of bid is finalized unless he has been punished under article 300.