Limitations on the organization of the local referendum
The local referendum shall not be carried out in case of declaration of an emergency situation, siege or war. If the date of the local referendum was fixed for the day in which later on the emergency situation, siege or war was declared, it shall be repealed ex officio or postponed for another day, having due observance of the conditions enshrined in this Code.
The local referendum may not take place, also, 120 day before and 120 days after the day of holding on the same territory of any kind of elections or referendum, unless it is organized on the same day.
The decision on the postponing of the local referendum shall be adopted by the Central Elections Commission at the proposal of the local council or of the representative authority of the administrative-territorial unit with a special status which has issued the act on the holding of the referendum.
[Article 176 as amended by the Law no.796-XV from 25.01.2002]
