[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 28, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 28CFR51.23]

[Page 86]
 
                    TITLE 28--JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION
 
              CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (Continued)
 
PART 51--PROCEDURES FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF SECTION 5 OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965, AS AMENDED--Table of Contents
 
      Subpart B--Procedures for Submission to the Attorney General
 
Sec. 51.23  Party and jurisdiction responsible for making submissions.

    (a) Changes affecting voting shall be submitted by the chief legal 
officer or other appropriate official of the submitting authority or by 
any other authorized person on behalf of the submitting authority. When 
one or more counties or other political subunits within a State will be 
affected, the State may make a submission on their behalf. Where a State 
is covered as a whole, State legislation (except legislation of local 
applicability) or other changes undertaken or required by the State 
shall be submitted by the State.
    (b) A change effected by a political party (see Sec. 51.7) may be 
submitted by an appropriate official of the political party.