§ Article 58Voting in Medical Treatment Facilities and Institutions of Social Guardianship and Care

1. Special post offices designated for voting shall be established in medical treatment facilities and institutions of social guardianship and care. At least 15 days before the referendum the city, regional committee shall: on the recommendation of the chiefs of medical treatment facilities, institutions of social guardianship and care compile the list of special post offices; on the recommendation of the head of the post office establish the working hours of these post offices. The chief of the institution or facilities shall allot the place appropriate for voting and shall be responsible that the voters are notified about the working place and time of a special post office, and that the conditions should be created for voters to reach it.
2. Patients of such facilities and institutions who are able to move shall vote themselves in the polling place in accordance with the procedure set forth in Article 54 of this Law.
3. Patients or inmates (voters) of medical treatment facilities and institutions of social care who are unable to come to a polling place due to their health condition shall be visited by at least 2 committee members, observers (should they participate) and officers of special post offices.
4. The voting person must, in conditions of secrecy, personally mark the ballot paper and put it into the voucher envelope. If necessary, he may be assisted by an individual (except for an employee of that institution or facilities, a postman, a member of the referendum committee, or a referendum observer) whom he trusts.
5. According to the instruction of the chief of the medical treatment facilities or the institution of social guardianship or care, it may be prohibited to disturb patients who are in a critical health condition, for the purpose of voting. Such instruction shall be obligatory to postmen.
6. It shall also be prohibited to disturb an individual for the purpose of voting, if the committee of doctors has concluded pursuant to the established procedure of the Ministry of Health Care that he is incapable of understanding the essence of his actions at the time of voting because of chronic mental disease, feeble-mindedness, or temporary mental disorder.