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Article 33
 

1. The election commission shall be notified of nomination of a candidate/candidates, in particular within a list of candidates, in the manner envisaged in law.


(Section 1 in the version of Federal Law of December 5, 2006, # 225-FZ).


2. The appropriate election commission shall be deemed to have been notified of nomination of the candidate, and the candidate, nominated and shall acquire the rights and responsibilities of a candidate provided for by this Federal Law, another law upon receipt of a written application of the nominated person as to his/her consent to ballot in the appropriate election district, with the obligations, in case of his/her election, to terminate any activities incompatible with the status of a deputy or with occupation of another elected position. The application shall state the surname, name, patronymic, date and place of birth, residential address, series, number and date of issue of the passport or its substitute, name or code of the issuing authority of the passport or its substitute, nationality, education, principal place of employment or service, occupied position (in the absence of a principal place of employment or service – type of occupation). If the candidate is a deputy and exercises his/her powers other than on a permanent basis, the application should indicate information to this effect and the name of the appropriate representative body. The candidate shall be free to indicate in the application his/her affiliation with a political party or not more than one other public association registered at least one year prior to the voting date in the legally established manner, and his/her status in this political party/ public association; subject to presentation, together with the application of a document that supports the said information and is officially certified by the standing management body of the political party or another public association or another standing management body of a unit of the political party or another public association, which is duly authorized in the charter of the political party or another public association. Together with the application, the candidate shall produce a copy of his/her passport or the substitute of the passport, copies of documents supporting the said applications, information on education, the principal place of employment or service, of the occupied position (kind of occupation) as well as that the candidate is a deputy


(in the version of Federal Laws of December 5, 2006, # 225-FZ, of April 5, 2009, # 42-FZ)


21. If the candidate has non-cancelled conviction, the information on the conviction are indicated in the application envisaged in Section 2 of this Article.


(Section 21 in the version of Federal Law of July 25, 2006, # 128-FZ).


3. Together with the application indicated in Section 2 of this Article, the information on the amount and sources of income of the candidate (each candidate from the list of candidates) as well as on property owned by the candidate (each candidate from the list of candidates) (including joint ownership), on bank accounts and securities should be submitted to the appropriate election commission. The said information is provided in the form of Appendix 1 hereto, which may include additional information, if this is envisaged in the Federal Law. The Federal Law may envisage the need in provision of information on the amount and sources of income and the property of the candidate’s spouse.


(in the version of Federal Laws of July 21, 2005, # 93-FZ, of December 5, 2006, # 225-FZ, of October 4, 2010, # 263-FZ).


4. At elections of deputies of representative bodies of municipalities where electoral districts are formed in accordance with the average quota of voters’ representation that does not exceed five thousand voters, candidates do not need to submit to the relevant election commission the information specified in Section 3 of this article unless otherwise provided by the law of the subject of the Russian Federation.


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