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Article 71
 

Administrative liability



The following actions shall be considered as administrative offences, if not declared criminal offences in compliance with article 70 of this Code, for which administrative sanctions shall be applicable according to the Administrative Offences Code's provisions:



[Paragraph 1, article 71 as amended by the Law no.268-XIV from 04.02.1999]

 



failure of officials to supply information and materials requested by electoral authorities, as well as failure to fulfill their decisions;



destruction, deterioration by any means of the electoral lists or electoral billboards;



holding by officials of electoral assemblies with alcoholic beverages ' selling and drinking  and failure to take certain measures for the proper unfolding of these assemblies;



acknowledged  including in the electoral lists of persons who are not entitled to vote according to this Code, of fake persons or willful including of one person in several lists, as well as the groundless refusal to receive and settle the contestations regarding electoral operations;



deliberate acceptance to include a person in several lists of candidates;



failure of the electoral authorities’ members to bring to the public knowledge the proposals of candidates’ nomination;



use of funds received from abroad or undeclared publicly;



hindrance of access in the voting premises or hindrance of the exercise of the voting rights by the qualified voters;



refusal to fulfill the orders of the chairman electoral committee of the polling station regarding the ensurance of order in the voting premises and on the neighboring territory;



unjustified handing over of the ballot paper to the voter included in the electoral list or handing over of more ballot papers than prescribed by law to one person;



groundless leaving of the voting premises before the totalization of elections’ results and signing the protocol by the members of the electoral committee of the polling station;



continuing of election propaganda in the day of elections and the day before it;



[Entry l) as amended by the Law no.268-XIV from 04.02.1999]

 



taking of the ballot paper handed over for voting away from the polling station premises;



faking of signatures on subscription lists.





Finding of the administrative offences provided in paragraph (1) shall be made in protocols drawn up, upon the case, by the mayor of locality, chairmen of the electoral authorities or by the police officers fulfilling their duties of ensuring the security of electoral operations.



Protocols of finding the administrative offences shall be transmitted to the court in the district of which the offence had occurred.