(1) Voting and vote counting shall be carried out in voting sections.

(2) (Amended, SG No. 98/2014, effective 28.11.2014) The municipality mayor shall issue an order establishing the voting sections within the territory of the municipality not later than 50 days in advance of polling day and shall endorse the numbering, scope and address of the said sections. Within the period referred to in sentence one, the mayor shall transmit a copy of the order to the territorial units of the Directorate General of Civil Registration and Administrative Services at the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Works in the respective administrative region.

(3) The municipality mayor shall be bound to provide appropriate premises for the voting sections, including for the voting sections for the mobile section election commissions, and the said premises must ensure a normal balloting process on polling day.

(4) (Amended and supplemented, SG No. 39/2016, effective 26.05.2016) The mayor’s order referred to in Paragraph (2) shall be made public. The said order may be disputed by the persons concerned within three days after being made public before the regional governor, who shall pronounce within three days by a decision which shall be made public. The decision of the regional governor may be appealed within three days after being made public before the competent administrative court.

The court shall examine the appeal sitting in public session within three days after the arrival of the said appeal, with the interested parties being summoned. The appeal shall not stay the enforcement of the decision. The judgment of the court shall forthwith be made public and shall be unappealable.

(5) The amendments made to the numbering, scope or address of the voting sections shall be incorporated into the electoral rolls for voting.

(6) The municipality mayors shall notify the constituency election commission or the municipal election commission of the addresses of the voting sections

(7) Upon creation of a new municipality, the voting sections shall be established by the interim mayor as appointed by the regional governor according to Article 4 (2) of the Local Self-government and Local Administration Act. The order shall be made public and may be disputed according to the procedure established by Paragraph (4).

(8) The constituency election commission or the municipal election commission shall generate the uniform numbers of the voting sections in the constituency or the municipality in accordance with the uniform numbering of the voting sections as determined by decision of the Central Election Commission not later than 35 days in advance of polling day.