§ Article 73(untitled)

egal Effect of Decision Adopted at Referendum

 1. A decision adopted at a referendum shall be binding and shall not need any
additional approval.

 2. A decision adopted at a referendum of the Russian Federation shall have effect in the
entire territory of the Russian Federation.

 3. A decision adopted at a referendum of the subject of the Russian Federation shall
have effect in the territory of this subject of the Russian Federation.

 4. A decision adopted at a local referendum shall have effect in the territory of
corresponding municipal formation.

 5. A decision adopted at a referendum of the subject of the Russian Federation, a local
referendum shall be registered, respectively, with the body of state power of the subject of the
Russian Federation, the body of local self-government in the order established for registration
of regulatory legal acts of the respective level.

 6. A decision adopted at a referendum of the subject of the Russian Federation, a local
referendum may be cancelled or changed by adopting a different decision at a referendum of
the subject of the Russian Federation, a local referendum, respectively, but not earlier than in
two years after the initial decision was adopted, or if the initial decision was invalidated (ceased
to be in effect) by a court. If a regulatory act was adopted at a referendum of the subject of the
Russian Federation, a local referendum, this act may be amended in the order established by
the said act. If such procedure is not established, modifications may be also introduced in the
order provided for the introduction of amendments to a relevant regulatory act, but not earlier
than in five years after corresponding decision was adopted at the referendum.
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 7. A decision made at a referendum of the subject of the Russian Federation, a local
referendum may be cancelled by a court on the following grounds:
 the order of conducting a referendum of the subject of the Russian Federation, a local
referendum established by this Federal Law, the law of the subject of the Russian Federation,
the statute of a municipal formation has been violated that made it impossible to establish the
real will of referendum participants;
 incompliance of the law of the subject of the Russian Federation on the basis of which
the referendum of the subject of the Russian Federation was conducted with the Constitution of
the Russian Federation, the federal law effective at the time when the referendum was
conducted; incompliance of the law of the subject of the Russian Federation, the statute of a
municipal formation on the basis of which the local referendum was conducted with the
Constitution of the Russian Federation, the federal law, the law of the subject of the Russian
Federation effective at the time when the referendum was conducted that made it impossible to
establish the real will of referendum participants;
 incompliance of the decision made at a referendum of the subject of the Russian
Federation, a local referendum with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the federal law,
and for a local referendum with the law of the subject of the Russian Federation.

 8. If the results of a referendum were invalidated, the commission organizing voting at a
referendum shall call a repeat voting.

 9. If a law or other regulatory act shall be additionally adopted to implement the decision
made at a referendum, the federal body of state power, the body of state power of the subject
of the Russian Federation, the body of local self-government or an elective official of the body
of local self-government within the competence of which such issue falls, shall establish the
period of time for preparation and (or) adoption of this law, regulatory act within 15 days from
the day when the decision adopted at the referendum came into effect. This period of time shall
not exceed three months.
(as amended by the Federal Law of July 21, 2005, No.93-FZ)

 10. If after conducting a referendum of the subject of the Russian Federation on a
question that falls within joint competence of the Russian Federation and the subject of the
Russian Federation, the federal law that governs this issue has become effective, the decision
made at the referendum and not complying with this Federal Law shall not be applicable.