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Article 7
 

§ 7. Election related expenditure

(1) Expenses incurred in the acts performed in the course of election organisation by a rural municipality and city government, rural municipality and city election committee and division committee shall be covered from the budget of the rural municipality or city. If in the budget of a rural municipality or city there are not enough funds to prepare and hold supplementary elections, the expenditure related to the elections shall be covered from the state budget at the request of and to the extent indicated by the county governor. An allocation received from the state budget in order to hold supplementary elections shall be withheld from the budget of the following year of the corresponding rural municipality or city. The Government of the Republic has the right to reduce the repayable amount or exempt the rural municipality or city from the repayment obligation.

(16.06.99 entered into force 23.06.99 - RT I 1999, 54, 581)

(11) Expenses incurred in the acts performed in the course of election organisation by the National Election Committee and county election committee shall be covered from the state budget.

(16.06.99 entered into force 23.06.99 - RT I 1999, 54, 581)

(2) The election campaigns of the political parties, election coalitions and independent candidates shall not be financed from the state, rural municipality or city budgets.

(3) A political party shall, within one month after elections are held, submit a report to the National Election Committee concerning expenses incurred and sources of funds used for the conduct of the election campaign by the political party and persons who ran as candidates in the list thereof. Election coalitions of citizens, and independent candidates shall submit their reports to the election committee of the corresponding rural municipality or city. The election committees shall publicise the reports.

(16.06.99 entered into force 23.06.99 - RT I 1999, 54, 581)