§ Section 3(untitled)

(1) The activities of election commissions
and polling station commissions in preparing and holding the
Saeima or the European Parliament elections and national
referendums shall be financed from the state budget in accordance
with the procedures specified by the Central Election
Commission.
(2) The activities of election commissions and polling station
commissions in preparing and holding council elections shall be
financed from the budget of the relevant local government.
(2¹) If the Saeima or the European
Parliament elections and a national referendum takes place
concurrently with the regular council elections, remuneration for
the election commissions, polling station commissions and the
persons invited in accordance with the procedures specified by
the Central Election Commission shall be financed from the state
budget in accordance with the procedures specified by the Central
Election Commission, but all the expenditure for the acquisition
of all the goods and services necessary to ensure activities of
election commissions and expenditure for the maintenance of
premises shall be financed from the local government budget.
(3) [19 June 1998]
(4) [19 June 1998]
(5) The material assets necessary for organising elections
(voting) shall become the property of the local government. The
premises needed for organising elections (voting) that are owned
(possessed) by the State or local government shall be allocated
free of charge.
[19 June 1998; 2 November 2000; 13 June 2002; 29 January
2004; 13 November 2008; 13 December 2012; 17 June 2020]