(1) The minor offences provided for in Art. 55 points b), c), d), e), g), j), k), l), m), o), p), ş), ţ), u), v), z), ab) and ac) shall be punished by fine from 1,000 lei to 2,500 lei, those in points f), h), q), t), w), x), and aa) by fine from 1,500 lei to 4,500 lei, and the ones in points a), i), n), r), s), and y) by fine from 4,500 lei to 10,000 lei.

(2) The ascertainment of the minor offences provided for in Art. 55 and the enforcement of the punishments provided for in paragraph (1) shall be carried out by:

a) the officers, agents, and non-commissioned officers in the Romanian Police, the Romanian Border Police, and the Romanian Gendarmerie, as well as the community policemen, for the facts stipulated in Art. 55 points i), k), l), n), o), q), r), t), w), z), and aa);

b) the president of the county electoral bureau, of the district electoral bureau of the district of Bucharest Municipality or of the electoral bureau for the polling stations abroad, for the facts stipulated in Art. 55 points j), p), ş), ab) and ac);

c) the president of the Central Electoral Bureau, for the facts stipulated in Art. 55 points f), g), and h);

d) the president of the electoral bureau in case the members thereof have committed the minor offences, or the president of the hierarchically superior electoral bureau in case the presidents of the hierarchically inferior electoral bureaux or the deputies thereof have committed the minor offences, for the facts stipulated in Art. 55 points n), s), ţ), u), and v);

e) the representatives of the president of the Permanent Electoral Authority, for the facts stipulated in Art. 55 points a), b), c), d), e), and x);

f) the representatives of the president of the Permanent Electoral Authority in case the fact stipulated in Art. 55 point m) has been committed by authorities of the central or local public administration, and in case the fact stipulated in Art. 55 point y) has been committed by other persons than the radio broadcasters; the president of the electoral bureau in case the fact stipulated in Art. 55 point m) has been committed by the members of the electoral bureau, or the president of the hierarchically superior electoral bureau in case the fact stipulated in Art. 55 point m) has been committed by the presidents of the hierarchically inferior electoral bureaux; policemen, in case the fact stipulated in Art. 55 point m) has been committed by other natural or legal persons;

g) The National Audiovisual Council, that shall take up the case or the case may be submitted to it by the interested persons, for the facts stipulated in Art. 55 point y) in case they have been committed by the radio broadcasters.

(3) The offender may pay, on the spot or within 48 hours at most of the date of the drawing up of the written report or, as the case may be, of the date of the communication thereof, half the minimum of the fine stipulated in paragraph (1),while the agent shall record this option in the said written report.

(4) To the minor offences provided for in Art. 55 shall be applicable the provisions of the Government Ordinance no. 2/2001 on the legal regime of minor offences, approved with amendments and completions by Law no. 180/2002 with the subsequent amendments and completions.

(5) The members of the electoral bureaux who committed the minor offences provided for in Art. 55 shall be replaced by other persons, at the request of the president of the hierarchically superior electoral bureau, or of the president of the Central Electoral Bureau, as the case may be.