(1) The election material shall be handed over no later than 24 hours before the date scheduled for the elections.

(2) Municipal authorities shall ensure the arrangement of the polling station and shall prepare the necessary number of ballot boxes with the wax sealing stationery, polling screens, and the writing stationery, for each polling board.

(3) On the ballot day and prior to the start of the vote, the polling board shall examine whether the prepared election material for a given polling station is complete and correct, and whether the polling station has been arranged so as to ensure the secrecy of the vote and whether the voting may begin, and shall record all such details in the minutes of its work.