State Act

Code of Comunidades of 1961

Art. 75 – The attorney of the comunidade shall be its representative and its controller who shall have the following powers:– 1. Look after and defend the interests of the comunidade; 2. Represent the comunidade before any courts and offices or public authorities; 3. Bring to the notice of the authorities or the comunidade the irregularities on the part of employees and agents and the encroachment of land. He may even challenge the encroachment in terms of articles 486 and 2354 of the Civil Code; 4. Attend the comunidades meetings and take part in its deliberations and in the works of enrolment and registration of the zonnkars, in the closing of the enrolment of shareholders, in the auctions and charges, in the preparation of the statement of income and expenditure and the list of qualified members and of the estimate, in final accounts of comunidades and in all inspections made by the managing committee or by the administrator of the fields, services and extraordinary works; 5. Supervise the ordinary and extraordinary services and extraordinary works; 6. Submit, within fifteen days, at the administration office or in the registrars offices Conservatorias the conditions of auctions, security and other required documents to effect the registration of the pledge of shares or to register the mortgage, under penalty of being responsible on subsidiary basis, if he fails to do the same; 7. Appeal against all the deliberations and orders which are against the interests of the comunidade and in those cases where the appeal is compulsory; 8. Take all the steps required for a good administrative and financial management of the comunidade.