I have written up a new CoL for Fanatica. It is only about a third of the length of the old one (in DG2) and should help to clarify constitutional problems that have arisen. It also incorporates much of the DG2 Code of Standards. Please post suggestions and general discussion on it. Discussion will be open for at least 48-72 hours, and it will be subjected to Judicial Review.
@Peri - I decided not to use a sponsor...the CoL is too large for a PM and it would be obvious who proposed it in the first place.
Here is the proposal:
@Peri - I decided not to use a sponsor...the CoL is too large for a PM and it would be obvious who proposed it in the first place.
Here is the proposal:
Code:
A. Departmental Deputies
1. Each Executive department and each governor will have a
deputy. This deputy will take over temporarily for a leader during
a leave of absence and will gain control of the office if the leader
permanently vacates the office.
a. The deputy of the President is the Vice President.
2. The deputy for a position will be the candidate that placed
second in the most recent elections for that position. In the event
that there is no second place candidate, the Department Leader may
call a special election for that position.
3. If a deputy is absent, the candidate who placed third in
the most recent elections will temporarily take over as deputy and may
become the new permanent deputy if a deputy permanently vacates the
office.
4. All department leaders and governors reserve the right to
create unofficial offices (such as Mayors, History officers, Chat
Representatives, etc) and appoint citizens to these offices.
B. Judicial Matters
1. Judicial Review
a. Any citizen may call judicial review
whenever a question of rule interpretation arises.
b. The Judge Advocate may also call review to dismiss
Public Investigation charges.
c. Judicial Review is binding if 2 of 3 Judiciary members
agree with the review, except in dismissal of Public Investigations,
which require unanimous consent among the Judiciary.
2. Public Investigations
a. A Public Investigation may be requested by post in
the Judicial thread and/or a PM to the Judge Advocate. An accuser may
wish to remain anonymous, and the JA must honor this if the accuser
indicates this in the accusation PM.
b. The accuser must post which amendments or laws were
broken by this person.
c. The Judge Advocate must notify the Public Defender
of the charges so that a defense can be formulated.
d. If the Judge Advocate does not believe that the
charge has merit, he/she may move to dismiss the charges. If the
charges are found, either by the JA or by review, to have merit,
the Judge Advocate must start a PI discussion thread.
e. The discussion thread must be open for at least 48
hours. The Public Defender and the defendant have 24 hours to make the
first two replies, which are reserved for them. If they fail to do so,
anybody may post. The defendant also has the chance to plead guilty,
which will cause the trial poll phase of the PI to be skipped.
f. If the defendant did not plead guilty, the JA must
post a trial poll after closing the discussion thread. This poll must
be open for 48 hours and must have the options of Guilty, Innocent, and
Abstain. If the defendant if found guilty, the JA posts a sentencing poll.
g. The sentencing poll will be up for 48 hours and will be
in multiple choice format. It will
contain the following options:
1. Eviction from the Demo game
a. For previous offenders only
2. Suspension from the Demo game
3. Impeachment
a. For officials only.
4. Final warning
a. For previous offenders only.
5. Warning
6. Abstain
7. If the offender has previously received a
Final Warning, the options of Warning and Final
Warning will not be offered on the sentencing poll.
8. If the offender has never received a Warning,
the option of Final Warning will not be offered
on the sentencing poll
9. A Moderator will set the length of time for
suspensions after conferring with the JA. Moderators
will also be responsible for enforcing evictions
and suspensions.
C. Absenteeism
1. An official is considered absent if they have had no forum
activity for 72 hours, if they have not responded to a required inquiry
in 36 hours, or if they have posted absence in the official absence
thread.
2. The President may expel an official from office if
he/she has not responded to a required inquiry in 7 days, or if he/she
has recorded no forum activity for 14 days for any reason.
3. An official is absent from a turnchat if they are not present in
the demogame chat room while a turnchat is occurring
D. Chain of Command
1. The chain of command will determine who is the designated player
at a turnchat if the President is not available to play the game. It will
also determine naming rights for cities. In positions where the there are
more than one person eligible to name a city or be designated player at a
turnchat, the issue will be resolved by seniority as a citizen (who signed
the citizen registry first).
a. No citizen will be eligible to name a second city until
all citizens who wish to name a city have done so.
2. CoC
A. President
B. Vice President
C. Domestic Leader
D. Military Leader
E. Foreign Leader
F. Science Leader
G. Culture Leader
H. Trade Leader
I. Chief Justice
J. Judge Advocate
K. Public Defender
L. Governors
M. Domestic Deputy
N. Military Deputy
O. Foreign Deputy
P. Science Deputy
Q. Culture Deputy
R. Trade Deputy
S. Governor Deputies
T. Previously Elected Officials (in order of the CoC,
for city naming rights only)
U. Remaining Citizenry
E. Code of Laws Amendments
1. Amendments to the Code of Laws must receive the vote of a
plurality of the citizenry that choose to vote and the vote of a majority
of the full Senate before they take effect.
2. A Code of Laws amendment may also pass by receiving supermajority
(two-thirds of all votes, excluding abstentions) support by the citizenry.
If this happens, the Senate poll is skipped and the amendment goes into
effect immediately.
3. A CoL amendment citizen poll must be open for at least 48
hours for the amendment to take effect.
4. This Code of Laws will be in effect when it is approved by the
same method prescribed for an amendment.
