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Article 7
 

(1) For the organisation of the electoral process, the Permanent Electoral Authority operates on a permanent basis, issuing decrees, decisions and orders. During the organisation of the elections, the Central Electoral Bureau, constituency electoral bureaus at county level, at the level of the Municipality of Bucharest, sector electoral offices, in the case of the Municipality of Bucharest and a constituency electoral bureau for the Romanian citizens domiciled or residing abroad, as well as the electoral bureaus of the polling stations shall be set up.


(2) Electoral bureaus shall be composed only of citizens with the right to vote. The candidates in the elections, their spouses, their relatives and in-laws, up to the second degree inclusively, cannot be members of the electoral bureaus.


(3) While fulfilling the duties incumbent upon them, the members of electoral bureaus exercise a function implying State authority. The correct and fair exercise of the function of member of the electoral bureau is mandatory. Non-observance of this obligation entails administrative or criminal liability, where appropriate.


(4) Notwithstanding the provisions of Law no. 188/1999 on the statute of civil servants, republished, as subsequently amended and supplemented, the persons holding public offices cannot be members of electoral bureaus.


(5) In the case of polling stations with less than 500 voters assigned to them, the Permanent Electoral Authority can decide that the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station or his/her alternate fulfilled the powers referred to by this law for computer operators. In the polling stations abroad, the president of the polling station can also fulfil the powers referred to by this law for computer operators.