1. The president of the municipality or of the municipal administrative commission, or, in the municipalities of Lisbon and Oporto, the neighborhood manager, shall deliver to the chief electoral officer of each polling station or section, up to three days before the day appointed for the elections, a book to be used for drawing up the minutes of the electoral operations. He will sign the opening term and initial all the sheets, as well as the forms and charts that prove necessary.

2. The entities mentioned in the previous number will also deliver to the chief electoral officer of each polling station or section, up to three days before the day appointed for the elections, the ballot papers.