State Act

Code of Comunidades of 1961

Art. 335 – After the auction, the secretary of the administration shall forward the file to the administrator, who, with his remarks, shall send it to the Directorate of Civil Administration Services. § 1. The Governor-General, on going through the file, shall consider the request. § 2. Soon after the file is returned to the administration office, the same shall be forwarded to the clerk of the respective comunidade, who shall register, within the period of three days of receipt, the order of the 107[Government] in the competent book. § 3. If the order is for grant of the emphyteusis, the clerk of the comunidades, soon after the registration, shall issue a chalan to be paid, within eight days, by the emphyteuta the siza]108 which may be due by the law in force and, after attaching to the file the receipt of the payment, with the assistance of the attorney of the comunidade, shall make provisional delivery of the land to the emphyteuta, verifying the correctness of the measurement and that there has not been any change in the provisional boundary marks, drawing thereafter the competent record, which shall also recorded in the book. § 4. Soon after, the clerk shall make provisional registration of land granted which shall be converted in definitive after being granted the final possession to the emphyteuta. § 5. If the provisional delivery is not taken, without justified reasons, within the period of four months from the order of the grant, the administrator shall inform this fact to the Governor-General, proposing the cancelation of the order of the grant of emphyteusis and reverting the land to the comunidade.