§ Article 108(untitled)

Nomination of candidates for head of community and member
 of council of elders

1. Candidates for head of community and member of council of elders may be
 nominated by political parties based on the decision of their respective district

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 (primary, local) units, as well as by persons having the right to be elected, by way
 of self-nomination through submitting an application thereon.

 A political party may also nominate a person, who is not its member, as a

 candidate for head of community and member of council of elders.

2. The decision of the respective district (primary, local) unit of a political party on

 nominating a candidate for head of community and member of council of elders

 and the application, in case of self-nomination, shall contain the name of the

 community and the following information about the candidate:

 (1) surname, name, patronymic;

 (2) date of birth;

 (3) place of registration;

 (4) place of employment and position (occupation);

 (5) party affiliation, as well as it may contain data on up to 2 authorised

 representatives of the candidate (their surname, name, patronymic, date of

 birth, number of the personal identification document, place of

 employment and position (occupation)).

3. The candidates for head of community and for member of council of elders shall —

 attached to the decision of the respective district (primary, local) unit of the political

 party or the application for self-nomination — submit to the district electoral

 commission:

 (1) the receipt for payment of the electoral deposit.

 In case of a community having up to 500 electors no electoral deposit shall be

 paid by a candidate for head of community and member of council of elders.

 The electoral deposit shall — in a community having up to 1 000 electors — be

 paid in the amount of 50-fold of the minimum salary by a candidate for head of

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 community, in the amount of 10-fold of the minimum salary by a candidate for

 member of council of elders, in a community having from 1 000 to 2 000

 electors — in the amount of 100-fold of the minimum salary by a candidate for

 head of community, in the amount of 15-fold of the minimum salary by a

 candidate for member of council of elders; in a community having from 2 000 to

 4 000 electors — in the amount of 150-fold of the minimum salary by a

 candidate for head of community, in the amount of 20-fold of the minimum

 salary by a candidate for member of council elders; in a community having from

 4 000 to 10 000 electors — in the amount of 300-fold of the minimum salary by

 a candidate for head of community, in the amount of 30-fold of the minimum

 salary by a candidate for member of council of elders; in a community having

 from 10 000 to 70 000 electors — in the amount of 500-fold of the minimum

 salary by a candidate for head of community, in the mount of 70-fold of the

 minimum salary by a candidate for member of council of elders, and in a

 community having more than 70 000 electors — in the amount of 1 000-fold of

 the minimum salary by a candidate for head of community, in the amount of

 100-fold of the minimum salary by a candidate for member of council of elders.

 The number of electors, referred to in this point, for each community shall be

 calculated based on the number in the Register of Electors;

 (2) a statement of information on being registered — for time limits prescribed

 by part 2 of Article 2 of this Code — in the population register of the

 community concerned;

 (3) carbon copy of the personal identification document.

4. The form of the statement of information prescribed by point 2 of part 3 of this

 Article shall be defined by the Central Electoral Commission. The mentioned

 statement of information shall be issued by the authorised body within a 3-day

 period following the request but no earlier than before calling elections.

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 The authorised body shall, upon its decision, refuse to provide the statement of

 information of the specified form to an applicant, where the data concerning him

 or her do not meet the requirements provided for by part 1 of Article 107 of this

 Code.

5. Registration documents shall be submitted only personally by a candidate or an

 authorised representative within the time limits prescribed by this Code.

6. Where errors, deletions, erasures, misprints are found in documents submitted

 for the registration of a candidate for head of community and member of council

 of elders, the district electoral commission shall be obliged to bring them to the

 attention of persons submitting such documents so as to correct them, as well as

 correct itself, in their presence, the evident errors, misprints existing in the

 submitted documents.

 The Commission shall not have the right not to accept the submitted documents

 only for the reason that they contain such errors, deletions, erasures, or

 misprints. The provisions of this part shall not apply to correction of errors,

 deletions, erasures, misprints or elimination of other deficiencies found in the

 documents, the right whereof is reserved by law to the bodies having adopted or

 issued such documents.

 In case the submitted documents contain inaccuracies referred to in the second

 paragraph of this part or in case of incompleteness of documents attached to the

 application, the district electoral commission shall give 48 hours for eliminating

 the mentioned inaccuracies, completing the attached documents. In case of

 failure to eliminate inaccuracies or to complete the documents within that time

 limit, the registration of the candidate shall be rejected.

 (Article 108 supplemented by HO-119-N of 30 June 2016)

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 Article 109. Registration of candidates for head of community and member
 of council of elders

1. Candidates for head of community and member of council of elders shall be

 registered by the decision of the district electoral commission.

 In case no objection is raised by the members of the district electoral commission

 with regard to the registration, the candidate shall be registered without voting.

2. The candidate and the authorised representative thereof shall have the right be

 present at the sitting of the district electoral commission when the issue of

 registration of the candidate is considered.