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Article 18
 

Designating a polling station


1. The head of the community (also the head of the penitentiary institution in cases provided for by this Code) shall designate a polling station no later than 43 days before the voting day. The head of the community shall inform the authorised body, the relevant district electoral commission and the person possessing the premises of the polling station thereon, and the head of the penitentiary institution shall inform the district electoral commission.


2. In case of impossibility to organise or to hold the voting properly it at a polling station, the head of the community shall be obliged to change upon request of the chairperson of the district electoral commission — no later than 5 days before the voting day — the location of the polling station, and, in exceptional cases, also on the voting day, upon the consent of the chairperson of the district electoral commission.


3. In case the location of a polling station is changed, the head of the community shall immediately inform the electors thereon.