Section 86State of Maharashtra Act

Section 86: Other offences and penalties therefore

Maharashtra Co-operative Societies (Election to Committee) Rules, 2014

Other offences and penalties therefore.

(1)

A person shall be guilty of an electoral offence, if at any election he -

(a)

fraudulently defaces or fraudulently destroys any nomination paper; or

(b)

fraudulently defaces; destroys or removes any list, notice or other document affixed by or under the authority of a Returning Officer; or

(c)

fraudulently defaces or fraudulently destroys any ballot paper or the official mark on any ballot paper or any declaration of identity or official envelop used in connection with voting by postal ballot; or

(d)

without due authority supplies any ballot paper to any person or receives any ballot paper from any person or is in possession of any ballot paper; or

(e)

fraudulently puts into any ballot box anything other than the ballot paper which he is authorized by law to put in; or

(f)

without due authority destroys, takes, opens or otherwise interferes with any ballot box or ballot papers then in use for the purpose of the election; or

(g)

fraudulently or without due authority, as the case may be, attempts to do any of the foregoing acts or will fully aids or abets the doing of any such acts.

(2)

For the purposes of this rule, a person shall be deemed to be on official duty if his duty is to take part in the conduct of an election or part of an election including the counting of votes or to be responsible after an election for the used ballot papers and other documents in connection with such election, but the expression "official duty" shall not include any duty imposed otherwise than by or under this Act.Form E-1[See Rule 5 (1)]Register showing the names of co-operative societies to be maintained by the State Co-operative Election Authority regarding particulars of elections of Committee due for election in the subsequent year

Sr.No.	Division	District	Taluka /Ward	Name of the Society with Reg. Number and fulladdress	Bye-law No. regarding strength of the committee	Total strength of members to the committee to beelected	Date on which last election of office bearer	Date by which the term of present committee inoffice will expire	Remarks
						No. of constituencies	No. of member
(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)	(7)	(8)	(9)	(10)	(11)

Form E-2[See Rule 5 (2)]Forms of report to be delivered by the committee of the society 6 Months before of the expiry of the period of the committee of the society.

Sr.No.	Name of Co-operative Society with RegistrationNo. and Address	Date of result which last election of managingcommittee was held declared	Date on which term of present M C members inoffice to expire	Names of constituencies as per bye-law	No. of M C members to be elected against eachconstituency	Remarks
(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)	(7)

Note. - The certificate from the Chief Executive Officer / Secretary of the society to the effect that submission of provisional voter's list will follow within 7 days shall be as under :-CertificateI Shri / Smt. -------------- Chief Executive Officer / Secretary of the --- ------------ Society Ltd., ----- hereby certify that-

(1)The Society shall prepare provisional voter's list of the members prior to that date and on or before expiry of 120/150 days;

(2)The information furnished in the Form E-2 is as correct and derived from the records of the society;

(3)

The particulars to be included in the provisional voter's list shall be according to Rule No. 6 of these rules.

Seal of the Society	Name and Signature of theChiefOfficer/Secretary of the Society.
Date :

Form E-3Provisional List of Voters(See Rule 7 and 10)

Sec 85 — Removal of ballot papers from polling station to be an offence

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