State Act
Section 47
Art. 47 – The elections of the members of the managing committee shall be held 25[on any Sunday in the month of December or January prior to the three yearly period in which they should start functioning]. § 1. For the purposes of the provisions of this article, the comunidade 26[***] shall be convened by the administrator, by notices published in the Official Gazette and public notices affixed on the door of the hall of the committee meeting and of the temples of any religion existing in the village, in not less than twenty days in advance. § 2. The fixation of the days of elections, referred to in the present article and the preceding paragraph shall be set by a single notice for all the comunidades of the taluka. § 3. The possibility of holding elections on the same day for two neighbouring comunidades should be avoided.