Powers of the constituency electoral committees and municipal electoral committees

1. Constituency and municipal electoral committees shall have the following powers:

1) under the procedure set out by the Central Electoral Commission, inform voters of the boundaries of the polling districts, of the headquarters of the electoral committees, as well as of the opening hours and the premises of the polling stations;

2) oversee the implementation of this Code on the territory under their charge;

3) set up polling district electoral committees; 4) approve the budget for polling district electoral committees within the limits of the estimated budget of the constituency/municipal electoral committee approved by the Central Electoral Commission and monitor the use of the allocated funds;
5) register election observers and issue them with election observer certificates;

6) accept the application documents of the candidates standing for elections to the Seimas and mayoral elections, as well as nominees for local and mayoral elections; examine the application documents; submit candidates and lists of candidates for registration to the Central Electoral Commission; and issue certificates to candidates registered for local and mayoral elections;

7) for the purposes of elections to the Seimas, local elections, and mayoral elections, check the nominating petitions of voters who have supported a candidate and/or list of candidates or who have nominated a candidate (or assign this task to the polling district electoral committees), and determine whether the required number of signatures has been collected for raising a nomination or supporting a candidate and/or a list of candidates;

8) draw up a list of healthcare institutions (except out-patient institutions), social care institutions, military units, arrest houses of territorial police units, places of pre-trial detention and arrest, prisons on the territory under their charge; arrange for voting at declared polling places in the said centres, units and institutions; organise and supervise the voting before the polling day in the municipal administration and/or other voting facilities;

9) draw up a vote counting record covering the territory under their charge (hereinafter: ‘the constituency/municipal electoral committee vote counting record), determine the voting results and transmit them for approval to the Central Electoral Commission;

10) conduct investigations into bribing of voters, political advertising, and other violations of this Code; look into claims concerning the decisions, actions and omissions of polling district electoral committees; and annul or amend the decisions of polling district electoral committees that fail to comply with the requirements of laws or other legal acts;

11) within the period from the date of establishment of the committee until the date of publication of the final election results, monitor political advertising and submit monitoring data to the Central Electoral Commission under the procedure set out by the said Commission;

12) carry out other functions set out in this Code.

2. The term of office of a member of a constituency/municipal electoral committee shall expire under the following circumstances:
1) upon resignation of the member;
2) upon expiry of the powers of the constituency/municipal electoral committee;
3) upon adoption by the Central Electoral Commission of a decision on the violation of the written pledge of a member of the committee;
4) upon adoption by the Central Electoral Commission of a decision based on a reasoned proposal from the entity that had nominated the member of the committee.