Municipal elections authorities

(1) Every municipality outside of Vienna has to have a municipal elections authority.

(2) These consist of the mayor or a permanent deputy elected by them in the capacity of a chairman and municipal returning officer, as well as of nine assistants, irrespective of § 10, para 5.

(3) In case the municipal returning officer should be temporarily prevented from carrying out his/her duties, the mayor has to appoint a replacement for them.

(4) An agent, appointed on the basis of provisions contained in state law (e.g. a commissioner of the government, official caretaker) has to take charge of those legal acts which are attributed to mayor by this federal law.