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Chapter VIII. Election Funding
Article 43. Financial Support of Preparation and Administration of Elections
Expenses incurred by election commissions during the preparation and administration of elections of deputies of the legislative (representative) body of state power of the subject of the Russian Federation and related to activities of election commissions within their term of powers shall be covered at the expense of the funds from the budget of the subject of the Russian Federation. The relevant expenses shall be envisaged in the budget of the subject of the Russian Federation as a separate line.
Funds to conduct elections of deputies stipulated by the budget of a subject of the Russian Federation shall be provided to the election commission of the subject of the Russian Federation within 10 days from the day of election setting and be distributed by the commission between all election commissions.
Chairmen of election commissions shall dispose funds and be responsible for compliance of financial documents with decisions of the election commissions on financial issues.
Article 44. Electoral Fund of a Candidate
Candidates shall form their own electoral funds to finance election campaigning. Assets from electoral funds shall be placed on special temporary accounts in branches of the Savings Bank of the Russian Federation. The rights to dispose of the electoral fund for the specified purposes shall belong exceptionally to the candidate who formed the fund.
Branches of the Savings Bank of the Russian Federation shall open in the name of candidates, on basis of a written notification by the district election commission, special temporary accounts to form electoral funds. Proceeds of the above accounts shall not be accrued or paid.
Electoral funds of candidates may be formed by the following monetary resources:
 funds allocated to candidates for election campaigning by the district election commission;
candidates' own funds that may not exceed ___ minimum monthly wages set by the federal law on the election setting day;
funds that were allocated to a candidate by an electoral association, electoral bloc nominated the candidate and that may not exceed ___ minimum monthly wages set by the federal law as of the day of election setting;
voluntary donations of the individuals and legal entities.
The size of a donation made by an individual to the electoral fund of a candidate may not exceed __ minimum monthly wages set by federal law as of the day of election setting. The size of a donation made by a legal entity to the electoral fund of a candidate may not exceed __ minimum monthly wages set by the federal law as of the election setting day.
The ultimate amount of a candidate's expenses from the electoral fund may not exceed ___ minimum monthly wages set by federal law as of the election setting day.
Donations to the electoral funds shall be prohibited from the following entities:
foreign states, organizations and citizens;
non-naturalized persons; Russian legal entities with foreign participation, if the foreign in their authorized capital exceeds 30%;
international organizations and international public movements;
bodies of local government, state and municipal enterprises, establishments and organizations;
military units, military establishments and organizations, charity organizations and religious associations.
Donations via third persons (citizens, legal entities, other organizations) shall be prohibited.
Banks shall provide information crediting the special temporary accounts of candidates to the district election commission within 3 days from the crediting date.
If voluntary donations come to electoral funds of candidates from individuals or legal entities who are not entitled to make such donations or their size exceeds the amount stipulated by this Article, candidates shall be obliged to return such donations completely or partially to the extent exceeding the authorized donation amount to donors with the reason for the return being specified. Anonymous donations shall be transferred to the state.
Candidates shall not be allowed to use, for election campaign, funds other than those came to their electoral funds.
Banks shall provide information about spending of funds located at special temporary accounts of candidates to the relevant election commission upon its written request.
If a candidate used funds for election campaigning other than those came to his/her electoral funds or if his expenses for election campaign purposes exceeded the ultimate amount the district election commission shall be entitled to appeal to a court requesting to cancel the decision about registration of the candidate. The aforesaid applications shall be considered by the court within 5 days and immediately if submitted 5 days before the election day.
The district election commission shall be obliged from time to time at least once a weak till election day publish information about size and sources of candidates' electoral funds on the basis of the available information.
All financial transactions with special accounts of candidates opened to form their electoral funds shall terminate on election day. The district election commission may, on the basis of a relevant request of a candidate, extend the term of financial transactions related to paying expenses made before election day.
Article 45. Accounting Procedure and Financial Reports
The procedure for accounting received and spent budget funds allocated for the preparation and administration of elections, money on electoral funds of candidates shall be determined by the election commission of a subject of the Russian Federation on the basis of the legislation of the Russian Federation and the subject of the Russian Federation.
Forms of financial report of election commissions concerning received and spent funds allocated for the preparation and administration of elections and financial statement of candidates shall be set by the electoral commission of a subject of the Russian Federation in compliance with legislation of the Russian Federation and the subject of the Russian Federation.
Candidates shall provide to the district election commission a financial report not later than 30 days after publication of the election results. Copies of the aforesaid financial reports shall be provided by the district election commission to the mass media.
District election commission shall submit the financial reports to higher election commissions, not later than 10 days from the day of publication of election results.
The district election commission shall submit financial reports to the election commission of the subject of the Russian Federation not later than 45 days from the day of publication of the election results.
The election commission of the subject of the Russian Federation shall submit the financial report on spending budget funds of the subject of the Russian Federation to the legislative (representative) body of state power of the subject of the Russian Federation not later than in 3 months from the official publication of general outcome of the election.
Article 46. Outstanding Money on Electoral Funds
A candidate shall, not later than 30 days after election day, return to the district election commission the outstanding money from the electoral fund in the amount proportional to the amount of the funds allocated to him/her by the commission. Upon expiration of the time term the outstanding budget funds shall, upon instruction of the district election commission, be transferred by a branch of the Savings Bank of the Russian Federation to the account of the election commission of the subject of the Russian Federation on an unconditional basis.
Remaining funds on the accounts of candidates shall, after the end of the election, be transferred by the candidates proportional to the contributed funds to the current (settlement) accounts of the organizations and individuals who made donations to the electoral funds upon permission of the district election commission.
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