The minor offences referred to in points (b) to (e), (g) to (i), (k), (l), (n) to (p), (r), (s), (u) to (w), (x) and (y) of Article 98 shall be sanctioned with a fine ranging from RON 1,500 to RON 4,500, those referred to in points (a), (f), (j), (m), (q), (t) and (z), with a fine ranging from RON 4,500 to RON 10,000.
(2) The finding of the minor offences referred to in Article 98 and the enforcing of the sanctions referred to in paragraph (1) shall be done by: a) police officers and agents of the Romanian Police and officers and non-commissioned officers of the Romanian Gendarmerie, for the actions referred to in points (a), (d), (f), (g), in the second phrase of point (h), in points (l), (m), (n), (p), (q), (r), (t), (u), (x), (y) of Article 98, as well as for the action referred to in point (j) of Article 98, if committed by natural persons or by legal persons of private law; b) the hierarchically superior electoral bureau, for the actions referred to in Article 98 (j), (o), (s), (v), (w) and (z), committed by the electoral bureaus; c) the Central Electoral Bureau, for the actions referred to in Article 98 (d) and (i); d) proxies of the President of the Permanent Electoral Authority, for the actions referred to in points (a), (b), (c), (e), in the first phrase of point (h), in point (k) of Article 98, for the action referred to in Article 98 (j), if committed by political parties, political alliances, organisations of citizens belonging to national minorities, authorities of central or local public administration;
(3) The offender may pay, on the spot, or no later than 48 hours from the date the report has been drawn up, or, as the case may be, from the date of its notification, half of the minimum fine stipulated in paragraph (1) and the fact-finding agent shall mention this possibility in the report.
(4) The provisions of Government Ordinance no. 2/2001 on the legal status of minor offences, approved as amended and supplemented by Law no. 180/2002, as subsequently amended and supplemented, shall apply to the minor offences stipulated under Article 98.
