State Act
Section 37
Art. 37 – The sessions of the comunidade are public and are chaired by the president of the managing committee or his substitute and, in the impediment of both, by the eldest member, the minutes being drawn by the respective clerk. § 1. When more than one comunidade or of its respective managing committee meet, in a joint session, to deal with the matters of common interests, the president of managing committee, designated by the administrator, shall preside, and in this case, the clerk of the same comunidade shall act as the clerk who shall write the minutes in the book in his charge and immediately forward one copy of it to the clerks of other comunidades taking part in the meeting, to be written in the respective minutes book. § 2. In order to have a combined meeting held or to take deliberation, it is necessary that there must be present, as many members as would have been required for each of the individual comunidade to hold separately a meeting. And in this case, the disposition of previous articles, relating to the convocation of the meeting and voting, is to be made applicable.