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Article 57
 

1. Costs related to the preparation and conduct of an election of a relevant level in the Russian Federation, operation and improvement of means of automation, training of election officials and voter education shall be paid by election commissions from the funds allocated for these purposes from an appropriate budget (the federal budget, the budget of a subject of the Russian Federation and/or the local budget). Funding of the said costs shall be carried out in accordance with the approved of budget estimate for allocation of costs of the appropriate budget, but in any event within 10 days from the date of official publication of the resolution as to appointment of the elections.


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


2. Costs related to the conduct of a referendum of the Russian Federation shall be paid out of the funds allocated from the federal budget for such purpose, in such manner and within such period of time as determined in the Federal Constitutional Law on Referendum in the Russian Federation. Costs related to the conduct of other referendums shall be paid out of the funds allocated, respectively, from the budget of a subject of the Russian Federation, the local budget for such purpose. Before the decision to call a referendum is officially published, the funds allocated to commissions from the federal budget, the budget of a subject of the Russian Federation, the local budget respectively may only be used to cover the commissions’ expenditures related to the verification of signatures collected in support of the referendum initiative.


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


3. The main budget administrators envisaged in the appropriate budgets (federal budget, budget of the subject of the Russian Federation, local budget) for holding of elections and referendums shall be the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation, the election commission of the subject of the Russian Federation, the election commission of the municipality.


(Section 3 in the version of Federal Law of July 21, 2005, # 93-FZ)


4-5. Became invalid – Federal Law of August 22, 2004, # 122-FZ.


6. Reports of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation, the election commissions of subjects of the Russian Federation, municipality election commissions on spending the budgetary funds on an election, a referendum shall be submitted, respectively, to the houses of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, legislative (representative) bodies of state power of subjects of the Russian Federation, representative bodies of municipalities. Chairmen of commissions shall manage the funds allocated for the preparation and conduct of an election, referendum and be responsible, in accordance with the law, for compliance of financial documents with financial decisions of the commissions and for filing statements on expenditure of such funds in accordance with the procedure and by the time established by law.


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


7. The procedure for establishment and maintenance of accounts, records, reports, and the procedure for transfer of funds allocated from the federal budget of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation to other commissions for the preparation and conduct of elections of federal bodies of state power, referendums of the Russian Federation, operation and improvement of means of automation, training of election officials and education of voters, and supporting the operation of election commissions shall be established by the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation with the concurrence of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. The procedure for establishment and maintenance of accounts, records, reports, and the procedure for transferring funds allocated from the budget of a subject of the Russian Federation, a local budget to the election commission of the subject of the Russian Federation, other commissions for the preparation and conduct of elections of bodies of state power of the subject of the Russian Federation, to bodies of local selfgovernment, referendums of the subject of the Russian Federation, local referendums, operation and improvement of means of automation, training of election officials and education of voters, and supporting the work of election commissions shall be established by the election commission of the subject of the Russian Federation with concurrence of the main office (the national bank) of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation in the subject of the Russian Federation. Cash shall be remitted to the accounts opened to commissions with offices of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, and in their absence, with branches of the Savings Bank of the Russian Federation.


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


8. Banks shall charge no fee for opening accounts of election commissions, referendum commissions and for transactions on these accounts and no interest shall accrue on the funds kept in the said bank accounts. 9. Commissions that receive funds from budgets of different levels shall maintain separate cash accounting records and reports for funds received from the said budgets. (in the version of Federal Law of July 21, 2005, # 93-FZ).