Registration of an Elected Council Members, Village, Settlement or City Mayor

1. A person elected as a member of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, oblast, rayon, city, rayon in a city, village, settlement council, village, settlement, city mayor is obliged to submit to the territorial election commission for the relevant local elections within twenty days from the date of official promulgation of the election results, the application for registration as a council member, village, settlement, 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 respectively to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic Crimea or the relevant local council.

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

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

2. If a person elected as a village, settlement or city mayor and provides the territorial election commission with a reasonable excuse for not complying with the requirements of Part one of this Article, then the territorial election commission may adopt a decision either accepting the excuse as valid and establishing a different deadline for complying with the aforementioned requirements or refusing to accept the excuse.

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, village, settlement, or city mayor.

4. If a person elected as a council member in a multi-member district, 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 the one who has refused to accept the mandate, the post of a village, settlement or city mayor, and shall adopt a decision to call a repeat voting of a council member in the multi-member district or of a village, settlement or city mayor.

In case of occurrence (discovery) before registration of the circumstances specified in items 3-6 of part one and part four of Article 231 of this Code, the relevant territorial election commission shall make a decision on recognizing the relevant person as not having acquired a local council mandate, powers of the village, settlement, city mayor and appoints the repeat voting.

5. If a person elected as a council member on the electoral list of the 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 submission by this person to the election commission of the application for refusal of the mandate, circumstances specified in paragraphs 3-6 of part one and part four of Article 231 of this Code, the election commission shall decide to recognize her as not having acquired a mandate and recognize as the elected member of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, oblast, rayon, rayon in the city, as well as city, village, settlement council (a territorial community with 10,000 or more voters) of the next candidate in the relevant territorial or single multi-member electoral list of candidates from the relevant party organization, which nominated a person who did not receive a mandate.

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

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