Expenditure related to preparation and conduct of elections

1. Expenditure related to the preparation and conduct of elections shall be covered from the state and municipal budgets.

2. The costs of electoral committees related to the organisation and conduct of elections, the work of members of the electoral committees and the staff servicing the said committees, as well as the costs of the adaptation of ballot papers and other election material set out by the Central Electoral Commission to the needs of voters with disabilities shall be covered from the state budget.

3. The Government shall allocate funds for early elections, as well as for rerun elections, where funds have not been provided for them for in the state budget and appropriations have not been allocated to the Central Electoral Commission in the state budget.

4. Costs of organisation of a poll at healthcare institutions (other than outpatient institutions), social care institutions, military units, arrest houses of territorial police units, places of pre-trial detention and arrest, and prisons shall be covered from the state budget.

5. Maintenance of polling stations and the headquarters of constituency electoral committees, municipal electoral committees and polling district electoral committees, the acquisition and maintenance of the equipment set out by the Central Electoral Commission, the setting-up of polling stations and their adaptation to the needs of voters with disabilities and the rent of suitable premises in the absence of any possibility to properly set up the polling stations or to adapt them to the needs of voters with disabilities shall be covered from municipal budgets.

6. The Central Electoral Commission shall have the right to use the savings from the state budget funds allocated for organising elections and referendums for the purchase of equipment intended for setting up polling stations. under the procedure laid down by legal acts, the Commission may subsequently transfer the said equipment, by the right of trust, to municipalities for management, use and disposal.

7. The costs related to conveyance of voters to polling districts to vote, where this is organised under the procedure laid down by the Central Electoral Commission, shall be covered from the state and municipal budgets.