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Article 115.
 

Storage of Election and Other Documents and Material Assets


1. After the official promulgation of the results of the election of MPs, the Central Election Commission shall deliver to the respective central state archival institution the election documents and other documents that are subject to submission to the National Archive Fund, including the protocols on the counting of votes at the election precincts and on the voting results within the election districts, while the district election commissions shall deliver such documentation to the State Archive in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea or to the respective local state archival institutions.


2. As to the election documents that are not subject to submission to the National Archive Fund the district election commissions shall deliver them to the local archival institutions established by the state bodies of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, local executive bodies, or bodies of local self-government in accordance with the Law of Ukraine on the National Archive Fund and Archival Institutions.


3. The Central Election Commission shall approve, upon consent of the central executive body in charge of implementation of state policies in the area of archiving, the list of election and other documents that shall be subject to storage at the state and other archival institutions, as well as the procedure for their delivery to such institutions.


4. The responsibility for the storage of election documents during the period before their archiving shall be entrusted to the head, deputy head, or secretary of the respective precinct or district election commission.


5. The ballot papers, voter list counterfoils, preliminary and corrected voter lists, reports, applications, complaints against violations of the requirements of this Law during the conduct of the voting or the counting of votes, as well as the protocols and decisions of the election commissions, shall be stored at the local archival institutions specified by Part 2 of this Article for five years from the day of the official promulgation of the results of the election of MPs, whereupon they shall be destroyed in accordance with the established procedure.


6. The archival institutions shall provide access to the election documents on the election of MPs in accordance with the procedure prescribed by the legislation of Ukraine.


7. After termination of the activities of the precinct and district election commissions, the local executive bodies and the bodies of local self-government shall ensure the storage of the ballot boxes, voting booths, seals of such commissions, and methodological literature that was provided to the election commissions for the period of the election process, as well as allocating premises for the local archival institutions for temporary storage of election documents.