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Article 87
 

1) The municipal election commission shall:


1. implement the activities for the application of this Code and the statutory instruments related thereto;
2. exercise control on the operation of the section election commissions within the territory of the constituency;
3. determine and make public the numbers assigned to the constituencies within the municipality; upon the numbering of the said constituencies, the municipal election commission shall reckon with the Uniform Classifier of Political and Territorial Units in Bulgaria;
4. conduct a training of the members of the section election commissions in the constituency, jointly with the training unit under Article 56 (1) herein;
5. appoint the section election commissions in the respective constituency and endorse the lists of alternate members;
6. dismiss members of section election commissions in the respective constituency in the cases of violations of this Code, of the decisions of the Central Election Commission and of the municipal election commission, as well as upon existence of any circumstance covered under Article 51 (2) herein;
7. see to the timely and correct establishment of voting sections in the constituency and generate and endorse the uniform numbers thereof;
8. exercise control as to the timely making public of the electoral rolls;
9. endorse the standard forms of the ballots for municipal councillors and for mayors in the relevant municipality and exercise control as to the delivery and safekeeping of the said ballots;
10. (repealed, SG No. 39/2016, effective 26.05.2016);
11. see to ensuring conditions for voting by persons with disabilities under Sections VIII and IX of Chapter Fourteen herein;
12. register and make public parties and coalitions for contesting elections of municipal councillors and of mayors in the relevant municipality;
13. register and make public the nomination committees and the local coalitions for contesting elections of municipal councillors and of mayors in the relevant municipality and issue certificates to the said nomination committees; keep a public register;
14. register and make public the candidate lists of the parties, coalitions and nomination committees for election of municipal councillors and the candidates for mayors and keep a public register;
15. strike the registration where it is established that the candidate does not satisfy the conditions under Article 397 (1) or (2) herein, as well as in the cases under Article 417 (5) herein;
16. strike the registration where the independent candidate is not supported by the required number of voters according to Article 416 (1) herein;
17. strike the registration of a nomination committee in the cases referred to in Item 16;
18. register, until polling day, the election agents of the candidate lists and issue certificates to the said agents; keep a public register of the election agents by candidate list;
19. control the handling of the election campaign by the media service providers operating within a regional and local range;
20. jointly with the municipal administration furnish the section election commissions with ballot boxes, voting ballots, electoral rolls, seals, blank forms of tally sheets, lists, drafts, and control the safekeeping, distribution among voting sections and transportation thereof;
21. exercise control as to discharge of the duty referred to in Article 77 (3) herein;
22. examine all complaints and alerts about irregularities affecting the election process in accordance with the powers vested therein, including against decisions and steps of the section election commissions; on polling day, pronounce by a decision within one hour after the arrival of the complaint or the alert and before the closing of the polls;
23. establish and maintain a public register of the complaints and alerts lodged with the commission and the decisions thereon;
24. upon pre-term termination of the credentials of a municipal councillor, pronounce the candidate ranked next on the relevant list elected;
25. (amended, SG No. 39/2016, effective 26.05.2016) declare the polls closed after completion of the voting in the voting sections within the territory of the municipality not later than 21:00 hours;
26. ascertain and declare the voting results within 48 hours after the completion of the voting, prepare a tally sheet and issue certificates to the elected municipal councillors and mayors;
27. within the time limit referred to in Item 26, scan and transmit to the Central Election Commission the tally sheets thereof on an election of municipal councillors, municipality mayor and mayoralty mayor and publish the said tally sheets on the Internet site thereof;
28. provide, upon signed acknowledgement, the members of the commission, the election agents, the representatives of the parties, coalitions and nomination committees and the observers with a copy of the signed tally sheet on the respective type of election showing the voting results in the constituency, stamped on each page with the seal of the commission and signed by the chairperson, the deputy chairperson and the secretary;
29. schedule a second round of voting for mayor, where no candidate has been elected;
30. (supplemented, SG No. 39/2016, effective 26.05.2016) in the cases where there is no elected mayor in the second round of voting or where the election of municipal councillors or mayor has been declared invalid, or upon pre-term termination of the credentials of a mayor or of the Municipal Council, within seven days notify the Central Election Commission to propose the scheduling of a new election;
31. make public the date of the election as scheduled by the President in a conspicuous place in the municipality (mayoralty, borough) and through the local mass communication media;
32. deliver to the Central Election Commission the copies of the tally sheets and the decisions of the municipal election commission on each type of election, the copies of the tally sheets of the section election commissions destined for the Central Election Commission, the receipts on the computer processing of the tally sheets of the section election commissions, a copy of the computer print-out of the data on the tally sheet and the decision of the municipal election commission on each type of election as provided by the computation centre, two machine-readable data mediums storing the numerical data generated by the processing of the tally sheets of the section election commissions, as well as the machine voting recording devices;
33. deliver to the municipal administration the rest of the stationery and materials with the exception of those destined for the Central Election Commission within seven days after the declaration of the election results;
34. implement any other powers provided for in this Code.


(2) The municipal election commission shall forthwith make public the decisions thereof by means of displaying the said decisions in a generally accessible place in the building where the said commission is housed and by means of publication on the Internet site thereof. The place for making the decisions public shall be determined by a decision of the commission forthwith after the appointment of the commission and shall be arranged in a manner indicating the assigned use thereof. The copies of the decisions which are made public shall be marked with the date and hour when the said decisions are displayed in the generally accessible place. The copies of the decisions made public shall be removed not earlier than three days after the said decisions were displayed in the generally accessible place and shall be preserved in the archives of the commission.