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Article 9
 

(1) Electoral rolls are permanent, special, and additional.


(2) The permanent electoral rolls shall be drawn up by locality and shall include all Community nationals who have their domicile in the locality for which the rolls thereof have been drawn up.


(3) The permanent electoral rolls shall be drawn up for the communes by villages, and streets, where appropriate, and for the towns, municipalities, and administrative subdivisions of municipalities, by streets and by blocks of flats, where appropriate.


(4) The permanent electoral rolls shall include, in the succession of the number of buildings where the Community nationals live, the full name, the personal numerical code, the domicile, the identity document type, series, and number.


(5) In case the permanent electoral rolls cannot be drawn up in compliance with the provisions of paragraphs (2)-(4), the Community nationals may enter on the 6 permanent electoral rolls in alphabetical order by the opinion of the county or district electoral bureau.


(6) Within 45 days at the most of the bringing the reference date to public knowledge, the National Centre for Database Management of the People’s Records shall select and operate the data regarding the Community nationals included in the National Register of People’s Record, shall publish and place at the disposal of mayors free of charge two copies of the permanent electoral rolls through its territorial units. The permanent electoral rolls shall be signed by the mayor, by the secretary of the administrative-territorial unit, by the head of the county Community public service of the people’s records, as well as by the head of the territorial unit of the National Centre for Database Management of the People’s Records.


(7) A copy of the permanent electoral rolls shall be kept by the mayor, and the other one shall be handed in to the court of law under whose territorial jurisdiction the locality for which it has been drawn up falls.


 


(8) The updating of the permanent electoral rolls shall be carried out by the mayor of the administrative-territorial unit, together with Community public service of the people’s records.


(9) Within 10 days of the receipt of the permanent electoral rolls, the mayor is obliged to place at the disposal of political parties, political alliances, and electoral alliances at their request and on their expense copies of the permanent electoral rolls.


(10) The Community nationals are entitled to check up their entries on the permanent electoral rolls. To this aim, the mayors are obliged to make available for consultation the permanent electoral rolls and to organize the information and guidance of the electors for making all the necessary verifications.


(11) The complaints with reference to any omissions, incorrect entries, any other errors on the rolls, as well as to the refusal to allow the verification of the entries shall be made in writing to the mayor of the locality, who is obliged to pass an order within 3 days at the most of the registration.


(12) The petitions regarding the solving of complaints shall be submitted in writing within 5 days of the notification of the orders to the court of law in the jurisdiction of which the elector resides, and shall be solved by the court thereof within 3 days at the most of the registration.


(13) Within 48 hours of the solving of complaints and of the operation of changes in the permanent electoral rolls, the mayors are obliged to transmit them to the National Centre for Database Management of the People’s Records.


(14) By at least 5 days before the reference date, the National Centre for Database Management of the People’s Records through its territorial units shall print and place at the disposal of the mayors, in three samples, free of charge, copies of the permanent electoral rolls, updated, which include the Community nationals in each polling station. The copies of the permanent electoral rolls shall be signed by the mayor, by the secretary of the administrative-territorial unit, by the head of the county Community public service of the people’s records, as well as by the head of the territorial unit of the National Centre for Database Management of the People’s Records.


(15) The copies of the permanent electoral rolls include the Community national’s full name, personal numerical code, domicile, identity document type, series, and number, the polling station number, as well as a column for the Community national’s signature.


(16) The copies of the permanent electoral rolls shall be handed in by the mayor, in two samples, on a statement of poll basis to the presidents of the bureaux of the 7 polling stations two days before the reference date. A sample shall be placed at the electors’ disposal for consultation, and another one shall be used on the reference date. The third sample of the copy shall be kept by the mayor.


(17) Any inconsistency between the permanent electoral roll and the copy shall be solved by the mayor immediately, by order, based on the data included in the permanent electoral roll.


(18) Any alteration which occurs in the permanent electoral roll, after the handing in of the copy to the bureau of the polling station shall be immediately communicated to it in writing by the mayor.


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*Amended by G.E.O. no. 11/2009.