Eligibility at local government elections

(1) Eligible to the county council and bound to accept election is any person who is entitled to vote at the election and who is listed in the Population Registry as resident in one of the municipal authority areas of the county on Election Day, and who is not subject to any legal incapacity or exempt.

(2) Eligible to the municipal council and bound to accept election is any person who is entitled to vote at the election and who is listed in the Population Registry as resident in the municipal authority area on Election Day, and who is not disqualified or exempt.

(3) Disqualified from election to county councils or municipal councils are:

a) the county governor and the assistant county governor, and

b) persons who in the municipal or county authority in question are

- chief municipal executive or his or her alternate

- heads of municipal affairs, heads of department and managers at the equivalent level,

- secretaries of the municipal councils or county councils,

- persons responsible for the accounting function,

- the person who performs the audits of the municipality or county authority.

(4) In county authorities or municipal authorities that have a parliamentary form of government, any persons employed in the secretariat of the executive board who have had authority delegated to them by the board are not eligible.

(5) Whether a person shall be disqualified from election depends on whether the person in question holds the post at the time at which the county council or the municipal council commences its functions.