16.7 Upon the request of a superior committee, committees must submit all materials at their disposal concerning issues of interest for the former.

16.8 The members of superior Electoral Commissions have the right to be present on the sessions of subordinate Electoral Commissions, with the exception of the sessions on summarizing the results of voting or elections.

16.9 If a decisions of two committees contradict each other, the decision of the superior committee prevails.

16.10 Members of Electoral Commissions can be relieved of their obligations at their place of employment, in the manner prescribed by the CEC during their activities on behalf of the committee.

16.11 The chairmen and the secretaries of the Central Electoral Commission and Regional Electoral Commissions are employed on a permanent basis.

16.12 The chairmen of the CEC and the Regional Electoral Commissions form a staff in the manner prescribed by Central Electoral Commission. Compensation for work performed in connection to the elections is paid from the centralized fund for the elections.

16.13 The Electoral Commissions maintain a register with numbered pages and sealed by the superior committee, in which mandatory dated entries are made on all factual activities carried out in connection with the elections.

16.14 The participation of the members of Electoral Commission in the sessions is fixed in a register by committee secretary, under which the members of the committee, present on the sessions, have right to sign.

17.1 The decisions and actions of Regional, Yerevan City, Community and Precinct Electoral Commissions, except the decisions of Precinct (Community) Electoral Commissions concerning the summarization of the results of voting (elections) can be appealed to a superior Electoral Commission or in a court of law.

17.2 The decisions and actions of Electoral Commissions can be appealed by the members of those committees, the persons who paid the electoral deposit, the registered candidates for the community leader or the member of community council, their proxies, and the voters, within two days of the adoption of the decision or implementation of the action. The complaint must be discussed within three days from its submission.

17.3 Decisions and actions of the Central Electoral Commission can be appealed by the members of Electoral Commissions, the persons who paid the electoral deposit, the registered candidates for the community leader or the member of community council, within two days of the adoption of the decision or implementation of the action in the Supreme court which pronounced final judgement in a collective manner within five days.

17.4 The decisions and actions of Precinct Electoral Commissions regarding the summarization of the voting results can be appealed to Community Electoral Commission within one day of the adoption of the decision or implementation of the action. The decisions and actions of Community Electoral Commissions regarding the summarization of the election results can be appealed to a court of law within two days of the adoption of the decision or implementation of the action. The decisions and actions of the court of law regarding the summarization of the results of elections can be appea led to the Supreme court which is pronouncing final decision in a collective manner within three months.

17.5 The decisions and actions of Electoral Commissions on the summarization of the results of voting and elections can be appealed by the members of corresponding Electoral Commissions, by the registered candidates for community leaders or by registered candidates for the member of community council.

17.6 If the court pronounces judgement on recognizing as void the decision of Community Electoral Commission regarding the summarization of the results of elections, then it pronounces judgement also on the results of elections, based on the provisions of this law.

18.1 Candidates for community leader and the community council are nominated in the manner of self-nomination upon submission of an application for nomination and the payment of an electoral deposit.

18.2 A candidate for member of community council can be nominated only in one voting district of the community.

18.3 The candidates pay into the united electoral fund the following sums as electoral deposits:

1) the candidates for leader of a community with a population under 1,000 -- 4,000 drams; for candidates for community council --500 drams;
2) the candidate for leader of a community with a population between 1,001 to 5,000 -- 10,000 drams; and candidates for community council -- 1,250 drams;

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