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Article 126
 

(1) Funding to cover the costs of elections of individual units shall be provided from the budget of that unit.


(2) The funding necessary to meet the obligations of the State Election Commission under this Act shall be provided from the State Budget.


(3) When elections are being held at the same time for bodies of units of local selfgovernment and bodies of units of regional self-government, each unit of local or regional self-government shall bear the costs of payment for their own election commission and their own professional bodies and persons, and payment for the election committees and joint material costs of the unit shall be borne in equal parts.


(4) In financial planning and creating the budget for the calendar year in which regular elections are to be held, units are obliged to provide funding for those elections.


(5) The election commission of the unit shall hold the funding for conducting the elections.


(6) The election commission of the unit is responsible for the distribution and spending of the funding and allocation of the appropriate funds to election bodies which also cover funding for the payment of administrative and professional work.


(7) The election commission of units shall publish a comprehensive report on the costs of the elections and the way the funding was used, within 30 days of the announcement of the official election results.


(8) The announcement, in the meaning of the previous paragraph, assumes publication on the unit's website.