Article 73. Legal 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 a subject of the Russian Federation shall have effect on the territory of this subject of the Russian Federation.
4. A decision adopted at a local referendum shall have effect on the territory of the relevant municipality.
5. A decision adopted at a referendum of a 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 procedure established for registration of regulatory legal acts of the respective level.
6. A decision adopted at a referendum of a 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 two years after the initial decision was adopted, or if the initial decision was declared null and void (having no effect) by a court. If a regulatory act was adopted at a referendum of a subject of the Russian Federation, a local referendum, such act may be modified in the procedure established by the said act. If such procedure is not established, modifications may be also introduced in the procedure provided for the introduction of modifications to a relevant regulatory act, but not earlier than five years after the relevant decision was adopted at the referendum.
7. A decision made at a referendum of a subject of the Russian Federation, a local referendum may be cancelled by a court on the following grounds:
the procedure for conducting a referendum of a subject of the Russian Federation, a local referendum established by this Federal Law, the law of a subject of the Russian Federation, the charter of a municipality has been violated, that made it impossible to establish the real will of referendum participants;
the law of a subject of the Russian Federation on the basis of which the referendum of the subject of the Russian Federation was conducted failed to comply with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the federal law effective at the time when the referendum was conducted, the law of a subject of the Russian Federation, the charter of a municipality on the basis of which the local referendum was conducted failed to comply with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the federal law, the law of a 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;
the decision made at a referendum of a subject of the Russian Federation, a local referendum fails to comply 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 have been declared null and void, the commission organizing voting at a referendum shall call a repeat voting.
9. If to implement the decision made at a referendum an additional law, regulatory act is required, the federal body of state power, the body of state power of a subject of the Russian Federation, the body of local self-government within the competence of which such issue falls, shall determine the time term for the 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. The said time term shall not exceed one year.
10. If after conducting a referendum of a 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.
