1. Members of electoral commissions are exempt from military call-ups and training exercises, and in the period of the national elections – from conscription.
2. Members of the Central Electoral Commission during the entire time period of the activity of the Central Electoral Commission and members of the Territorial and Precinct Electoral Commissions during national elections may be arrested or subjected to administrative or criminal judicial prosecution only upon the content of the Central Electoral Commission.
3. The Chairman of the Central Electoral Commission, the Vice-Chairman, the Secretary and the members work on a permanent basis and have no right to perform other paid work, except for scientific, academic and creative work.
4. The authorities of the members of the Central and Territorial Electoral Commissions are in force until the formation of new Central and Territorial Electoral Commissions.
5. Members of electoral commissions have the right to get familiarized beforehand with the issues and documents presented for discussion at the commission, to make speeches at commission sessions, to present proposals and require voting to that end, to pose questions to the commission members and get full answers.
6. Members of electoral commissions shall carry out the instructions of the commission chairman, released within the latter’s authorities.
7. Members of the superior electoral commission, upon the request of the chairman of the relevant commission, have the right to participate in the session of a subordinate electoral commission with an advisory vote, and be present at the precinct center on the day of voting.
8. In the period of their activities members of electoral commissions can be free from fulfillment of their productive or service duties.
9. Payment of members of electoral commissions, as well as their staff is covered from the means of the state budget. The salary of the Chairman of the Central Electoral Commission is equal to that of the Chairman of the Court of Cassation. The salary of the Vice-Chairman of the Central Electoral Commission is equal to that of the Chairman of the Chamber of the Court of Cassation. The salary of the Secretary of the Central Electoral Commission is equal to that of the judge of the Court of Cassation. The salary of the members of the Central Electoral Commission and also the salary of the Chairman of the Territorial Electoral Commission, during the period of the national elections, is equal to that of the judge of the Court of Cassation. The salary of members of Territorial Electoral Commissions and the salary of Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Secretary of the Precinct Electoral Commission, in the period of the national elections, equals to ten minimum salaries. The salary of the Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Secretary of the Territorial Electoral Commission equals to ten minimum salaries.
The salary of the Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Secretary of the Precinct Electoral Commission, in the period of National Assembly majoritarian by-elections and elections of local self-governing bodies, equals to ten minimum salaries. The salary of the members of Precinct Electoral Commissions is preserved during the elections.
(Amend. of March 23, 1999 LA-286; July 31, 2002 LA-406-P)
