State Act

Code of Comunidades of 1961

Art. 33 – The comunidade shall have four ordinary meetings per year, and extraordinary meetings, as and when necessary. § 1. The ordinary meetings shall be held in the first fortnights of March, April, May and December; each of them shall be preceded by an announcement by beat of drums, through different wards of the village, and by notices affixed on the doors of the meetings hall and of the temples of any religion existing in the village. § 2. The extraordinary meetings shall be convened by order of the president of the managing committee, with beat of drums and announcements in the same form as per the preceding paragraph, by making known in these notices, express and clearly the matter or matters to be dealt with. § 3. Whenever the subject referred to is the one of clauses of No. 4 of article 30 and article 77, the notice of meeting shall be published in the Official Gazette and, at least, in one newspaper, if any, existing in the respective taluka, no less than fifteen days in advance, in addition to the announcement by way of beating of drums and public notices, as prescribed in the preceding paragraph, though the subject ought to have been to be discussed and voted in an ordinary meeting. § 4. All the meetings of the comunidade shall be held in the respective villages, in the building designated for this purpose, the same however may be held in the headquarters of the administration office or in any other place, when the Governor-General, for special reasons, so determine. § 5. In the extraordinary meetings, only the subject or matters that may have been expressly announced, may be dealt with. § 6. The deliberations taken in contravention of the preceding paragraphs are null and void.