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Article 53
 

The city and municipal election commission:


1. takes direct care of the lawful preparation and running of elections for members of the municipal or city assembly and elections for municipality head or mayor and their deputies;
2. carries out all technical preparations for the running of elections in its area;
3. certifies the statements by candidates accepting candidacy for member of the municipal or city assembly and for municipality head, or mayor and their deputies;
4. publishes lists of candidates on the basis of valid proposals, draws up and publishes a summary list of all lists of candidates for election for members of the municipal or city assembly and publishes a summary list of candidacies for election for municipality head, or mayor and their deputies;
5. designates the polling stations in its area;
6. supervises the work of election committees at the polling stations;
7. supervises the regularity of the election campaign for municipal or city elections, pursuant to this Act;
8. collects and counts the results of voting for members of the county assembly, county prefect and his/her deputies, at polling stations in its area and delivers them to the county election commission together with the minutes of its work, within 24 hours from the closing of the polling stations;
9. collects and counts the results of voting on its territory for the election for members of municipal and town councils, municipality heads and mayors and their deputies;
10. publishes the results of the elections for members of the municipal or city assembly and for municipality head, or mayor and their deputies;
11. establishes whether the appropriate representation has been ensured of representatives of national minorities in the representative and executive bodies of the city or municipality;
12. collects the results of elections from the polling stations in its area and submits them to the county election commission for publication on the county's internet site;
13. designates the members of the professional team to perform administrative and technical tasks and the amount of remuneration for members of the professional team, according to the evaluation criteria regarding their work;
14. performs work related to financing the election campaign prescribed by a separate act and the binding instructions of the State Election Commission;
15. performs other tasks prescribed by this Act.