Procedure for Registration of Candidates for a Village, Settlement or City Mayor

1. A candidate for a village, settlement, or city mayor shall be registered by a respective village, settlement, or city election commission, upon receipt thereby of documents provided for by Article 224 of this Code.

2. The submission of documents to the respective village, settlement, or city election commission for registration of candidates for a post a village, settlement, or city mayor shall end thirty days prior to the date of voting.

3. The documents to the respective village, settlement or city election commission for registration of a candidate for a village, settlement or city mayor shall be submitted by a party organization’s representative authorized by a power of attorney issued by a party organization, or by a candidate himself or herself, as regards candidates nominated through self-nomination.

4. A candidate for a village, settlement or city mayor, who, as of the day of filing an application by the party organization on the registration of him or her as a candidate for a village, settlement or city mayor, has failed to submit a statement of consent to be nominated as a village, settlement or city mayor by that party organization, shall be deemed such that has not given the respective consent. A statement of consent submitted by such a person after submission of the aforementioned party organization’s application for registration of him or her as a candidate for a village, settlement, or city mayor shall not be accepted.

5. A person nominated by the party organization as a candidate for a village, settlement or city mayor may withdraw his or her statement of consent to be nominated from that party organization, prior to the day of registration of him or her as a candidate for a village, settlement or city mayor.

Such person shall, in person, file with the respective village, settlement or city election commission a statement of withdrawal of his or her consent to be nominated as a village, settlement or city mayor from the respective party organization notarized pursuant to the procedure established by the Law of Ukraine “About Notaries.”

Such a person shall be deemed to have renounced the nomination. The respective village, settlement, or city election commission shall notify the party organization that nominated a candidate in writing of the receipt of a statement of withdrawal no later than within three days following the day of the receipt of the statement of withdrawal. A statement of consent submitted by a person who has previously withdrawn consent to be nominated as a candidate by the party organization shall not be accepted.

6. In the event, if a person nominated through self-nomination or nominated by a party organization, in accordance with his or her written statement of consent to be nominated as a candidate for a village, settlement or city mayor has been nominated as a candidate in another multi-member election district in any local election, the authorized representative of the territorial election commission shall, no later than the following day, address the said person with the requirement to file, in person, with the election commission a statement on the confirmation of his or her consent to be nominated as a candidate for a village, settlement or city mayor, from one party organization, which shall be notarized pursuant to the procedure established by the Law of Ukraine “On Notaries.”

Should a person file a statement on the confirmation of his or her consent to be nominated as a candidate for a village, settlement or city mayor a from the respective party organization, such person shall be deemed excluded from the electoral lists, lists of candidates to the respective councils of other party organizations.

Should a person fail to submit such a statement within two days following the day of receipt of the respective address, the territorial election commission shall cancel the decision on registration of such person as a candidate for a village, settlement or city mayor, and shall notify such person and the respective party organization thereof.

7. A village, settlement, or city election commission shall, no later than the fifth day of the day of receipt of an application on the registration of candidates and the documents appended thereto, adopt a decision on registration of candidates, or on refusal to register candidates.

8. The territorial election commission shall, no later than twenty-one days prior to the day of voting, make public in the manner determined thereby, the information on registration of candidates for a village, settlement or city mayor, with an indication of the number of a multi-member election district, in which a candidate has been nominated, a nominating entity, the last name, first name (all first names), patronymic name (if available), the day, month and year of birth, the information on citizenship, party membership, job position, place of employment (occupation), place of residence, a statement on the presence (absence) of arrears of child support in the amount exceeding the amount of respective payments for six months, from the date of presentation to him or her of an enforcement document, of each of the candidates.

9. In case of registration of a candidate for a village, settlement or city mayor nominated by a party organization or a candidate nominated by self-nomination, the relevant territorial election commission shall issue a candidate's certificate to the representative of the party organization or the relevant candidate within three days of the registration decision. according to the form established by the Central Election Commission

The decision on registration of a candidate for a village, settlement or city mayor is posted by the relevant territorial election commission within three days from the date of its adoption on its official website (if available), the website of the relevant local council or in another manner specified by it and/or on the stand of official materials of the commission.

Information on the registered candidates for city mayors indicating the subject of nomination, surname, first name (all proper names), parents (if any), date, month, year of birth, information on citizenship, party affiliation, position, place of work (occupation), place of residence of each candidate are submitted for publication on the official website of the Central Election Commission in the manner prescribed by it.