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Article 130
 

The following electoral expenses are at public expense:


1° the paper for the ballots the State provides


2° the attendance fees and the travel expenses for the members of the polling stations, under the conditions defined by the King;


3° The documented travel expenses of the voters who on the day of the election do not live anymore in the municipality where they are registered, under the conditions defined by the King;


4° the premiums due for accident insurance for the members of the polling stations to cover all sorts of fees caused by accidents happening to members of the polling stations while performing their activities; the King determines the modalities and the covered risks.


In case of a parallel election for the Chamber of Representatives and the communal or regional Parliaments, the expenses mentioned in 2° to 4° of the previous sentence are covered by the State by 65%.


On communal account are the ballot boxes, partitioning walls, desks, envelopes and pens the municipalities provide according to the models approved by the King.


Without prejudice to article 4, sentence 2 of the special law of 16th July 1993 on the accomplishment of the federal structures of the State and in completion to the electoral legislation on the Regions and Municipalities, all other electoral expenses are at public expense of the municipalities.


The governor of the province or the governor of the administrative municipality of Brussels Region manages the distribution of the electoral expenses of each polling station among the municipalities of their circuit.