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Perform all the necessary steps required for the administrative and financial management of the comunidade. Art. 65 – The expenses incurred or already paid, to meet the cases foreseen in clause 3 of preceding article, require the approval of the Governor-General, 31[***] when such an expenditure exceeds the amount of 3000$ for each work and the sanction of the administrator, when it is of lesser amount. § 1. For this purpose, the clerk shall send the statement of expenditure incurred, duly countersigned by the president of the committee, with the opinion of the twenty major share- holders of the comunidade, if necessary, to the administrator, who shall send the same, with his own remarks to the Directorate of Civil Administration, or else shall approve himself the same, if it is within his competence, in terms of the body of the article. § 2. When the amount of the expenses exceed 3000$, or when the administrator thinks it necessary, he shall proceed to inspect the works, along with the technical expert of the comunidade, before the report is prepared or sanction is accorded or whilst the works are in progress. § 3. The Governor-General shall make the committee responsible, after giving prior hearing to it, for any excess committed in the exercise of its powers provided for it in clause 3 of the preceding article. Art. 66 – The committee shall express its opinion in all the deliberations that the comunidade adopts on the matters of its competence. -------27-------- Art. 67 – The members of the committee and its substitutes are expressly prohibited to bid or to stand surety in auctions, directly or through dummy party. Sole § By dummy party means: the spouse of the interdict person, the individual who may be presumed hair, the nearest relative with whom he may live in common domestic economy and any third person who, in collusion with the interdict member, bids or subsequently transfer to him the thing auctioned. Art. 68 – The members of the committee who violate the provisions of the preceding article shall be liable to pay a fine from 300 $ to 3000 $, which shall be imposed by the administrator, following an enquiry and cannot be reappointed to the post or be re-elected during the period of three to nine years, as set also by the administrator, depending on the seriousness of the case. Art. 69 – The members of the managing committee, appointed or elected, cannot decline the post, except if they have obtained the exemption from the Governor-General and are liable for payment of a fine of 300$, imposed by the administrator, in case they fail to obtain the said exemption and cannot be appointed or re-elected during the period of nine years. § 1. When any of the elected members do not take charge of the office, with or without obtaining the respective exemption, the Governor-General shall appoint one who will substitute him till the end of the triennium. § 2. The following shall be grounds for the grant of exemption:–