(in the version of Federal Law of July 21, 2005, # 93-FZ)

1. Voters and referendum participants shall also be subject to registration/recording

2. Registration/ recording of voters and referendum participants residing in the territory of the appropriate municipality shall be carried out by the Head of municipal administration of the municipal district, city district, intra-city territory of a federal-significance city and in cases envisaged in the law of the subject of the Russian Federation and the federal-significance city, by the Head of the territory executive body of the federalsignificance city. The Reason for registration/accounting of voters and referendum participants on the territory of the municipality shall be actual location of the place of residence (with respect to forced migrants – actual temporary stay) of voters and referendum participants on the appropriate territory. This fact is established based on information provided by the bodies in charge of state registration of the Russian citizens at the place of stay and at the place of residence in the Russian Federation.

3. Registration/ recording of voters and referendum participants who are military men, their families and other voters, referendum participants residing outside the location of the military unit shall be carried out by the commander of the military unit. The reason for registration/ recording of this category of voters / referendum participants shall be actual location of their place of residence within the location of the military unit, as established on the basis of information provided by the appropriate service to the military unit.

4. Registration/recording of voters, referendum participants residing outside the territory of the Russian Federation or staying abroad on long business trips shall be carried out by the head of the appropriate diplomatic representative office or a consular department of the Russian Federation. The reason for registration/recording of this category of voters/ referendum participants shall be their permanent residence on the territory of a foreign state or stay in a long-term foreign business trip on the territory of the appropriate foreign state, that shall be set by the diplomatic and consular missions of the Russian Federation.

5. The authorities in charge of registration of citizens of the Russian Federation at the place of stay and at the place of residence within the Russian Federation, issue and replacement of documents identifying citizens of the Russian Federation in the Russian Federation shall, at least once a month, provide information on actual issue and replacement of a passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation, registration and de-registration at the place of residence (with respect to forced migrants – at the place of stay) of citizens of the Russian Federation, issue of a passport of the citizen of the Russian Federation, in violation of the established procedure, with indication of the following personal data of the citizen: surname, name and patronymic, date of birth, place of birth, sex, nationality, address of the place of residence (with respect to forced migrants – place of stay), type of ID document, series and number of this document, name or code of the issuing authority, issue date of the document – to the Head of the local administration of the municipal district, city district, intra-city territory of the federal-significance city; and in cases envisaged in the law of the subject of the Russian Federation – federal-significance city, - to the Head of the territorial executive body of the federal-significance city at his/her location.

6. Civil registry offices shall, at least once a month, submit information on actual deaths of citizens of the Russian Federation to the Head of local administration of the municipal district, city district, intra-city territory of a federal-significance city, and in cases envisaged in the law of the subject of the Russian Federation – a federal-significance city- to the head of the territorial office of executive power of the federal-significance-city at his/her location.

7. At least once in three months, the bodies in charge of military registration shall inform of citizens of the Russian Federation drafted/ arrived under a contract to military service (dismissed from military service), and bodies/institutions of the military execution system – on the citizens imprisoned under a court judgment, to the head of the local administration of the municipal district, city district, intra-city territory of the federalsignificance city, and in cases envisaged by law of the subject of the Russian Federation – federal-significance city, to the head of the territorial executive body of the federal-significance city at the place of residence of the citizen.

8. A court of law, having resolved to recognize the citizen as incompetent, as well as to recognize a citizen, who had been earlier recognized by the court as incompetent, as competent, shall communicate the decision made to the head of the local administration of the municipal district, the city district, the intra-city territory of a federalsignificance city, and in cases envisaged in the law of the subject of the subject of the Russian Federation – the federal-significance city, to the head of the territory office of the executive power of the federal-significance city at the place of residence of the national.

9. The information indicated in Sections 5-8 of this Article shall, at least once a month, be communicated by the head of the local administration of the municipal district, the city district, the intra-city territory of the federalsignificance city, and in cases envisaged in law of the subject of the Russian Federation – federal-significance city, by the head of the territorial office of executive power of the federal-significance city, to election commission of the subject of the Russian Federation for establishment and maintenance of the register of voters and referendum participants.

10. Registration of voters/referendum participants and establishment of the number of persons registered on the territory of the municipal entity of a subject of the Russian Federation, in the Russian Federation and abroad as voters/referendum participants shall be carried out as of January 1 and July 1 of each year, using GAS Vybory.

11. Registration of voters, referendum participants, establishment of the number of registered voters/ referendum participants, establishment and maintenance of the register of voters/ referendum participants shall be effected in such manner as established in the regulations on the state system for registration/recording of voters/referendum participants, as approved of by the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation.

12. A voter, referendum participant shall be entitled to free access to documented information (personal file) regarding him including data on machine-readable media, to correct inaccurate data in order to ensure its completeness and validity and shall be entitled to know who uses or used such data and for what purposes, and to whom and by whom such information was provided.