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Article 156
 

§ 1. Services as well as technical and material working conditions for precinct and territorial electoral commissions, including the possibility of using electronic technology, and performance of tasks connected with organisation and carrying out of elections on the territory of a commune, poviat or voivodship shall be ensured respectively by a commune head, staroste or a marshal of a voivodship. The tasks performed within this scope shall be ordered tasks of territorial selfgovernment units.


§ 2. Organisational units which permanently manage state and municipal immovable properties shall be obliged to make the premises available free of charge:


1) at the request of a director of a territorially competent regional office of the National Electoral Office –intended for seats of district and territorial electoral commissions;


2) at the request of a commune head – intended for seats of precinct electoral commissions.


§ 3. The premises intended for seats of electoral bodies should be easily accessible for the disabled.


§ 4. Also premises of entities other than mentioned in § 2 can be intended for seats of electoral commissions, after prior agreement with entities managing these premises. § 5. Provisions of § 1-4 shall applyaccordingly to captains of Polish sea ships and consuls.