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Article 14
 

 The Organization of the Work of Commissions

 

1. The Commissions exercise their activity through sessions, based on the principle of collegiality.

 

2. The Chairman of the commission, or the deputy Chairman by his instruction, leads the work of the commission

 

3. During the period of organization and conduct of referendum, staff working on temporary basis are formed in the regional commissions, the staff lists and their salary are defined by the Central Referendum Commission, separately for central commission and each regional commission; For supplementary work, the chairman of the Central Commission shall establish a staff to work on permanent basis. A similar staff may be established on a temporary basis in territorial commissions upon the agreement of the Central Commission. The Central Commission shall decide the wages for the members of the staff.

 

4. The Chairman of the commission establishes the agenda for the regular sessions;

 

5. Extraordinary sessions are called by the Chairman of the commission upon his/her initiative or upon the written request of one third of the members of commission within the time appointed by them. The chairman of the commission informs the commission members in advance on the conduct of the extraordinary session;

 

6. The session of the commission is valid if more than the half of commission members are present;

 

7. The decision of the commission is adopted by the majority of the votes of the members present at the session; Voting may be considered as held if more than half of the total number of commission members participated in voting. A decision may be considered as adopted if more than half of the total number of voters participated in voting. In the event of equal share of votes, vote of the commission chairman (chairperson of the session) is decisive”.

 

8. The commissions are receiving clerical registers with page numbers and sealed by the superior commission, were the corresponding clerical work, in relation to the organization and conduct of referendum, shall be registered by dates and times;

 

9. The commission members are obliged to participate in the sessions of the corresponding commissions. In case of three unfounded absences in accordance with the decision adopted by the majority of the total number of votes the respective commission is authorized to terminate the powers of a commission member;

 

10. The referendum documents are handed and accepted in the commission with a mandatory registration in the clerical register by signature of the giver and recipient;

 

11.The referendum documents shall be submitted to the superior commission immediately following the summarization of referendum results.

 

12.The Central commission submits the referendum documents for keeping to the state archive of Republic of Armenia after the official announcement of referendum results in conformity with the defined procedure.