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Article 55
 

(1) There shall be considered minor offences the following facts:


a) the deliberate entering of an elector on more permanent electoral rolls, the entering on the electoral rolls of fictitious persons or of persons who are not entitled to vote;


b) the keeping of the permanent electoral rolls under inappropriate conditions;


c) the failure to make the communications stipulated by law in due time and to operate them on the permanent electoral rolls;


d) the operations made by unauthorized persons on the permanent electoral rolls;


e) the failure to notify the courts of law of the alterations operated on the sample of the permanent electoral roll existing at the town hall;


f) the infringement of the provisions of Art. 4 (2) and Art. 27 (3);


g) the infringement of the provisions regarding the posting of candidacy proposals provided for in Art. 31 (3);


h) the use by a candidate of the electoral sign registered at the Central Electoral Bureau by another candidate;


i) i) the organizers’ failure to take the necessary measures for a normal conduct of the electoral meetings, as well as the distribution and consumption of alcoholic beverages during such meetings;


j) the destruction, deterioration, staining, covering by writing or by any other method of the permanent electoral rolls, the copies thereof or of the electoral tables;


k) the non-observance of the provisions of Art. 37 (1), (3), (4), and of Art. 39 (4);


l) the posting of the permanent electoral rolls, the copies thereof or of the electoral tables; the destruction, deterioration, staining, covering by writing or by any other method of the posted electoral platforms or of any other printed electoral propaganda posters or advertisement;


m) the non-observance of the decisions and resolutions of the electoral bureaux; the non-observance of the resolutions and instructions of the Permanent Electoral Authority; the non-observance of the resolutions of the Constitutional Court;


n) the unauthorised printing of ballot papers with a view to using them on election day;


o) the refusal to permit the access of the accredited persons to the premises of the polling station, except for the cases when the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station restricts the access of the accredited persons to the premises of the polling station due to the size thereof;


p) the refusal to receive and register a written objection, contestation or any other petition;


q) the refusal to comply with the orders of the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station regarding the maintenance of order at the premises and in the vicinity of the polling station;


r) the refusal to hand over the ballot paper and the stamp marked “VOTED” to the voter who has signed on the electoral roll; the handing over of the ballot paper to a voter who does not produce the identity document or who refuses to sign for the receipt thereof on the electoral roll or table on which he is entered;


r-1) the non-observance of the provisions of Art. 44 (8) regarding the presence of other persons in the voting booth;


s) the failure to affix the stamp marked “VOTED” or the self-adhesive stamp, as the case may be, as well as the holding of the identity document, without good reasons, by the members of the electoral bureau of the polling station;


ş) the non-observance of the provisions of Art. 48 (1) point e) regarding the reading aloud of the option expressed on the ballot paper; the drawing up, by the electoral bureaux of the polling stations, of the statements of the vote with the infringement of the provisions of this law;


t) the continuation of the electoral propaganda after it is over, as well as the counselling of the voters on voting day, at the premises of the polling stations, to vote or not to vote a certain candidate;


ţ) the wearing of name tags, badges or other signs of electoral propaganda, during the voting, by the members of the electoral bureaux of the polling stations,, the persons in charge with the guard, the accredited persons or the poll operators from the polling organizations;


u) the infringement by the members of the electoral bureaux of the duty to take part in the activity of the bureaux;


v) the refusal of the president of the electoral bureau or of his/her deputy to issue a certified copy of the statement of the vote to the persons entitled in compliance with the provisions of this law;


w) the infringement of the accreditation conditions by the persons accredited according to Art. 47 and by the poll operators from the polling organizations, trade companies or from the non-governmental organizations that have been accredited by the Central Electoral Bureau by decision;


x) the non-observance of the provisions of Art. 10 – 12 regarding the delimitation, numbering and establishing of polling stations;


y) the non-observance of the provisions of Art. 39 (1) – (3) and (5);


z) the non-observance of the provisions of Art. 41 regarding electoral posting;


aa) the non-observance of the provisions of Art. 43 paragraph (12) regarding the selling and consumption of alcoholic beverages.


ab) the failure to observe the provisions of Article 43 paragraph (4);


ac) the failure to observe the provisions of Article 48 paragraph (1) c);