State Act
Section 394
Art. 394 – All the process shall be on plain paper, in terms of general law, and the losing party shall be ordered, at the end, to pay the costs and stamp duties, which shall be assessed by the secretary of the administration and recovered in terms of this Code. § 1. All the stages of the proceedings, including petitions, till they are submitted to the 122[Government], shall be conducted without collecting fees in advance, when one of the parties is the comunidade, however the amount of the stamps duties and costs shall be assessed and paid at last by the losing party, when it is not the comunidade, that shall not required to pay for any thing excepting stamp duty and costs of the records processed at level of the tutelage authority. §2. At the request of the attorney of the comunidade or ex-officio, the administrator may require that the opposite party, when it is not guaranteed, Sign a bond for the guarantee of payment of stamps duties and costs, which amount shall be fixed by the administrator, after consulting the secretary and this bond can be given by personal guarantee under the terms of the Code of Civil Procedure (Código de Processo Civil).