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Article 65
 

65.1. Signatures for creating a referendum campaign group shall be collected and made official in accordance with Article 57 of this Code.
Signature sheets shall be prepared in conformity with Appendix 4 of this Code.


65.2. if the initiators establishing a referendum campaign group intend to conduct a pre-referendum campaign in the entire territory of The Republic of Azerbaijan, they shall have to collect a minimum of 40 thousand signatures on consent to membership in the referendum campaign group in the territory of at least 60 election constituencies. In this case, the number of the potential members of a referendum campaign group from one election constituency may not be less than 100 persons.


65.3. if the initiators establishing a referendum campaign group intend to conduct a pre-referendum campaign in one part of the territory of the Republic of Azerbaijan, they shall have to collect a minimum of 100 signatures of people agreeing to become members of the referendum campaign group in the territory of every single election constituency, where the pre-referendum campaigning will take place.


65.4. A voter shall have a right to sign by his/her own will for membership in a referendum campaign group only once.


65.5. After the collection of signatures, the signature sheet shall be signed by the authorized representative of initiators of a referendum campaign group and the signature collector. Before signing the signature sheet, the signature collector shall write down his forename, surname, patronymic, home address, and his/her iD or a substitute document’s serial and batch number and date of issue.