Registration of Elected Council Members and Village, Settlement and City Mayor

1. A person elected as a member of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, an oblast, rayon, city, rayon in a city, village or settlement council or a village, settlement or city mayor is obliged to submit to the territorial election commission for the respective local elections within twenty days from the date of the official promulgation of the election results an application for registration as council member or as village, settlement or city mayor, and in case her or she possesses another representative mandate – a copy of the registered application for termination of another representative mandate submitted either to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic Crimea or the respective local council.

A person elected as a member of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea or as village, settlement or city mayor also submits a document on dismissal or termination of activities incompatible with the mandate of a member of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea or the position of village, settlement or city mayor.

If such a person does not hold a position or does not carry out activities that are incompatible with the respective mandate or the position of village, settlement or city mayor, and/or does not have any other representative mandate, this shall be stated in the application for registration.

2. If a person who is elected council member or village, settlement or city mayor addresses a territorial election commission stating a presence of valid reasons that prevent him or her from complying with the requirements of Part one of this Article, the territorial election commission may adopt a decision either to accept the reasons as valid and establishing a different deadline for complying with the aforementioned requirements or refusing to accept the reasons.


3. Upon receipt of the documents specified in Part one of this Article, the territorial election commission shall, no later than on the fifth day, adopt a decision to register the elected person as a local council member or village, settlement or city mayor.


4. If a person elected as a council member in a multi-member district or as village, settlement or city mayor fails to comply with the requirements of Part one of this Article before the deadlines specified in Parts one and two of this Article, the territorial election commission shall adopt a decision declaring this person as one who has refused to accept the mandate or the position of village, settlement or city mayor, and shall adopt a decision to call a repeat voting of a council member in the multimember district or of a village, settlement or city mayor.

In case of occurrence (discovery) before the registration of circumstances specified in clause 3-6 of part one and part four of Article 231 of this Code, the respective territorial election commission shall make a decision on declaring the respective person as not having obtained the local council seat or the powers of village, settlement or city mayor and appoint repeat voting.

5. If a person elected as a council member on an electoral list of a local party organization fails to comply with the requirements of Part one of this Article before the deadlines specified in Parts one and two of this Article or this person submits to the election commission an application of withdrawal of the mandate, or if circumstances specified in paragraphs 3-6 of part one and part four of Article 231 of this Code occur (or are discovered), the election commission shall decide to recognize him or her as not having acquired a mandate and to declare as the elected member of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea or of the oblast, rayon, rayon in city, as well as city, village, settlement or council (of a territorial community with 10,000 or more voters) the next candidate in the respective territorial or unified multi-member electoral list of candidates from the respective party organization, which nominated the person who did not obtain the mandate.

 In case of the exhaustion of the respective territorial electoral list, the order of obtaining the seat shall be transferred to the unified multi-member electoral list of the same party organization. If the unified electoral list of the party organization is exhausted, such a seat remains vacant.

6. The decisions of the territorial election commission on registration of a council member or a village, settlement or city mayor are announced at the plenary session of the respective village, settlement, rayon in city, city or oblast council or the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and are grounds for acquiring the powers of a council member or village, settlement or city mayor.


7. Copies of decisions of the territorial election commission adopted in accordance with Parts three and four of this Article shall be immediately sent to the Central Election Commission in accordance with the requirements established thereof.