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Article 52
 

Powers of district electoral commission


1. District electoral commission is a standing state authority. District electoral commission shall:


(1) exercise supervision over fulfilment of the requirements of this Code at a district under the service thereof;


(2) approve the samples of ballot papers for elections of local self-government bodies organised thereby;


(3) prescribe the sequential numbers of electoral precincts in compliance with the procedure prescribed by the Central Electoral Commission and submit such data to the Central Electoral Commission within a 2-day period;


(4) provide information to the Central Electoral Commission on its own activities and the activities of precinct electoral commissions;


(5) consider the applications with regard to the decisions, actions and omissions of precinct electoral commissions, review or abolish the decisions of precinct electoral commissions which are in conflict with this Code;


(6) publish, in cases prescribed by this Code, preliminary voting results by electoral precinct, based on the data in protocols of precinct electoral commissions;


(7) organise and hold elections of local self-government bodies at communities included in the district under the service thereof and summarise their results;


(8) monitor the process of posting the lists of electors for public information purposes at electoral precincts;


(9) control the relevant furnishing of the voting rooms in accordance with the requirements of this Code;


(10) register electoral lists of political parties running in elections of local self-government bodies (except for the Council of Elders of Yerevan), as well as candidates for head of community and member of council of elders; issue a certificate, in the sample established by the Central Electoral Commission, to candidates included in the electoral lists of political parties and to candidates for head of community and member of council of elders;


(11) register members of councils of elders of communities elected through the proportional electoral system (except for the Council of Elders of Yerevan) and issue a certificate in the sample established by the Central Electoral Commission;


(12) declare the voting results at the electoral precinct as invalid;


(12.1) register the initiating group for holding a local referendum and terminate registration of the initiating group in the cases and as prescribed by the Law of the Republic of Armenia “On local referendum”;


(12.2) approve, in the cases and as prescribed by the Law of the Republic of Armenia “On local referendum”, the validity of the signatures collected for the purpose of holding a local referendum;


(13) perform other powers provided for by this Code.


(Article 52 supplemented by HO-348-N of 13 June 2018, amended, edited by HO-333-N of 18 June 2020)


(Law HO-333-N of 18 June 2020 contains a transitional provision relating to the Article)