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 (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 — in case of self-nomination - the application, 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 record-registration; 

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

(5)political 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 constituency 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 case of a community having from 501 to 1 000 electors — be paid in the amount of 50-fold of the minimum salary by a candidate for head of community, in the amount of 10-fold of the minimum salary by a candidate for member of Council of Elders, in case of a community having from 1 001 to 4 000 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; 

(2)a statement of information on being record-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. 

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 by a candidate or an authorised representative, in person, 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 constituency 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 constituency 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.