Bills

This is bill id#1282 (this information has no legal importance and is technical in nature.

Hopper Thread

WHEREAS Fiova's internal democracy has ground to a total halt; and that of the fellow riverside province of Florencia is not much better;

AND WHEREAS the Governor of Florencia, Mximo Carbonél, has proposed that our two provinces merge;

AND WHEREAS why the hell not, presuming that the terms are good;

AND WHEREAS OrgLaw XVII:5 and XVII:6.19 gives the power over creating new Provinces to the Ziu

BE IT ENACTED by the King, Cosa and Senäts of Talossa in Ziu assembled that:

1. The Free Province of Fiôva and the Province of Florencia shall be replaced by a single Province comprising the cantons of Florencia, Cuféir and Las Inaltáns Maxhéstici.

2. This law shall come into effect only upon agreement between the Provincial Governments of Fiôva and Florencia upon a Constitution of the merged province, which shall include a name for the new Province, and the approval of that Constitution by a majority of the citizens of both Provinces (separately and jointly) in referendum.

This is bill id#1283 (this information has no legal importance and is technical in nature.

Hopper Thread

WHEREAS during the first term of its existence, the Royal Civil Service of Talossa has proved difficult to staff;

AND WHEREAS the main issue with this has proved to be all appointments having to go through a Civil Service Commissioner;

AND WHEREAS the proponent of this bill asked the incumbent whether he was interested in continuing in the role and got no reply;

AND WHEREAS the incoming Government will have to deal with vacancies in the Civil Service such as Immigration, and potential further ones to come such as forum moderators;

AND WHEREAS a majority of the incoming Cosa is still committed to the idea of a non-political Civil Service which will have continuity between Governments and elections;

BE IT ENACTED by the King, Cosa and Senäts of Talossa in Ziu assembled that Title C of El Lexhátx shall be replaced in its entirety as follows:
 

This is bill id#1285 (this information has no legal importance and is technical in nature.

Hopper Thread

WHEREAS in most nations, responsibility for keeping order and civil debate in the Legislature is a function of the President/Chair/Speaker of that Chamber;

AND WHEREAS in Talossa, most debate on occurs not in the formal chambers of the Ziu, but in the Hopper;

AND WHEREAS the Hopper has degenerated into a kind of "Wild West" atmosphere, with MCs baiting, trolling and abusing each other;

AND WHEREAS this is unseemly;

AND WHEREAS the Mençéi has established good rules for debate among Senators, but nothing similar exists for the Cosa as yet;

BE IT ESTABLISHED by the King, Cosa and Senäts of Talossa in Ziu assembled that El Lexhátx H.20 shall be amended as follows:
 

This is bill id#1286 (this information has no legal importance and is technical in nature.

Hopper Thread

WHEREAS part of the role of the new Cultural Development Secretary is ensuring the observance of Public Holidays and Days of Observance under El Lexhátx F.2-F.4; and

WHEREAS the Cultural Development Secretary has produced a report recommending the following changes to these Observances, to make their job feasible;

BE IT ENACTED by the King, Senäts and Cosa of Talossa in Ziu assembled as follows:

1. El Lexhátx F.2. shall be replaced by the following text:
 

2. El Lexhatx F.4.2 and F.4.3 shall be replaced by the following text:
 

This is bill id#1287 (this information has no legal importance and is technical in nature.

Hopper Thread

This is bill id#1289 (this information has no legal importance and is technical in nature.

Hopper Thread

This is bill id#1290 (this information has no legal importance and is technical in nature.

Hopper Thread

Whereas there are some specific improvements that can be made to the Organic Law, and

Whereas the first part of this bill shall remove some bits that perhaps do not belong in a supreme governing document but which still deserve special protection, and

Whereas the second part of this bill shall fix the many places where the OrgLaw has been edited and not renumbered by lazy legislators,

 

Therefore, Article IX shall have a new Section 6, which shall read,
 

Furthermore, el Lexhatx shall be modified in the following way: Title A shall be renamed Title B, Title B shall be renamed Title C, and henceforth through to Title L, will shall be renamed Title M. All references within el Lexhatx shall be accordingly renamed so as to correctly identify the same provisions that they currently indicate.

Furthermore, Article I of the Organic Law shall be modified so as to remove Sections 7, 8, 9, and 10.

Furthermore, the text of these sections shall be placed in the newly-created Title A: Entrenched Law of el Lexhatx, reading identically to their current text and numbered in the same sequence.

 

Furthermore, Article IV of the Organic Law shall be modified so as to remove the repealed Section 5. The existing Sections 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 shall be renumbered 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11, respectively. Any and all references to the existing Sections shall be altered to indicate the new numbering and thus preserve the current meaning.

Furthermore, Article V of the Organic Law shall be modified so as to remove the repealed Section 4. The existing Sections 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 shall be renumbered 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, respectively. Any and all references to the existing Sections shall be altered to indicate the new numbering and thus preserve the current meaning.

Furthermore, Article VII of the Organic Law shall be modified so as to remove the repealed Sections 7, 8, and 9. The existing Section 10 shall be renumbered Section 7. Any and all references to the existing Sections shall be altered to indicate the new numbering and thus preserve the current meaning.

Furthermore, Article XVIII of the Organic Law shall be modified so as to remove the repealed Section 4. The existing Sections 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 shall be renumbered Sections 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13, respectively. Any and all references to the existing Sections shall be altered to indicate the new numbering and thus preserve the current meaning.

This is bill id#1291 (this information has no legal importance and is technical in nature.

Hopper Thread

Whereas a lot of Talossa-doing happens on Witt, and it is often the public face of our country, and

Whereas Witt is an internet forum, and while Talossans are the most extraordinary people on the Earth, sometimes things can get out of hand, and we do need a small group of people empowered to bring it back in hand, and

Whereas it remains private property, and so the best path forward is one that is cooperative and pragmatic, and

Whereas it's probably no longer a good idea to split up the increasingly-quiet Witt into other boards, and

Whereas basically we just want pretty obvious and common-sense moderation, but done under the rule of law

Therefore the Ziu hereby deletes Title J of el Lexhatx in its entirety, replacing it with the following:
1. The Chancery shall be responsible for providing an official internet message board or forum for the express use of Household, Government, or provincial business. The Secretary of State or their designated representative within the Chancery shall make all reasonable effort to maintain and make available this board for all offices of the Household, Government, or provinces that so request. The Secretary of State shall have ultimate discretion in the question of infrastructure, although he is highly advised to take the wishes of officials into account in their decisionmaking. Other boards shall be provided for socialization at the discretion of the Secretary of State or their designated representative.

2. Each officeholder or head of agency shall be responsible for monitoring any boards provided for their use, and reporting any problems to the Chancery as needed. The Secretary of State or their designated representative(s) shall act to maintain a minimum level of acceptable behavior on these boards when such action is requested whensoever their own judgment directs that it is necessary. This behavior is not defined in specifics, but shall include generally treating others in a manner that respects Talossa as a community.

3. This board shall include the necessary infrastructure to allow the Ziu to fulfill its functions, including proposing, debating, and considering bills and the posing of Terpelaziuns. This board will also provide a place for citizens to register their votes in elections. This board shall be known as "Wittenberg," and it will be considered the property of the nation as a whole.

This is bill id#1292 (this information has no legal importance and is technical in nature.

Hopper Thread

WHEREAS the Kingdom of Talossa's primary means of communication is the use of the forum known as Wittenberg, which citizens have enjoyed the use of, in differing forms, for many years, and is host to virtually all official business of the Kingdom; and

WHEREAS H.M. Government and the parliament have sub-boards on these forums and use the same for a variety of purposes, including for the debate of legislation in the Hopper, the enacting or rejection of legislation in parliament and, in lieu of physical meeting places, provide digital representations of the various required facilities such as a Senate chamber, a Cosa chamber and various office spaces for official functions of government; and

WHEREAS certain functions of the Royal Household have sub-boards on these forums and use the same for a variety of purposes, including all business of the College of Arms, all business of the Royal Society for the advancement of knowledge and all business of the Crown itself, such as speeches from the Throne and the awarding of arms and honours; and

WHEREAS the Kingdom's judicial system has sub-boards on these forums and use the same for a variety of purposes, including the hearing of cases, the posting of judicial decisions and rulings and, in lieu of a physical meeting place, provide a set of digital courtrooms; and

WHEREAS the Kingdom's provinces each have a sub-board on these forums and use the same for a variety of purposes, including to act as the public venues for the provinces, for hosting official provincial governmental business and for providing office space to the Crown for provincial matters; and

WHEREAS groups of specialised and niche interests have sub-boards on these forums and use the same for a variety of purposes, including all business of the Talossan Web Designers Guild, all business of the Committee for the Use of the Language and for a wide range of discussions about or in the Talossan national language; and

WHEREAS the public at large enjoy access to these forums and use the same for a variety of purposes, including those already listed, and including any omitted from the above lists as those lists are not intended to be exhaustive; and

WHEREAS the public at large enjoy access to these forums and, in lieu of physical access to the areas of land claimed as Talossan soil, the Wittenberg forums act as a substitute for all physical places by providing a representation of the same by way and in nature of digital peculiarity; and

WHEREAS Wittenberg forums, while being host to all of the aforementioned, is private property and under the sole ownership of John Wooley, not in his capacity as King of Talossa, but in his capacity as a private individual; and

WHEREAS this form of private ownership permits Mr Wooley to enforce a set of rules for use of these forums, known as Wittiquette, which may appear to be a good idea for a variety of good reasons, but still allows one single private individual to control the behaviour and speech of all other individuals, and

WHEREAS, Wittenberg exists in some kind of digital-duality of derivitist and peculiarist realities, with each citizen probably having their own idea of what that really means, but overall can be summed up to say that in lieu of any actual physical 'thing', the sub-forums of Wittenberg provide a digital version of the 'thing', thus it can be said, as examples, that the sub-forum for a province is essentially the very same thing as provincial soil itself or the sub-forum for the uppermost court is essentially the very same thing as a bricks-and-mortar courthouse, and

WHEREAS if that idea holds true then a private individual cannot own these things or enforce blanket rules on all of them, especially if those rules fly in the face of the Covenant of Rights and Freedoms; so


THEREFORE be it enacted by the Ziu of the Kindom of Talossa that:

The forum board titled and styled as Wittenberg (known as Wittenberg, Wittenberg Forums and Witt) is hereby nationalised. 


The details to whit are outlined as follows:

1) TITLE J (Telecomuna) of El Lexhatx is stricken from statutory law in it's entirety.

2) The following is hereby enacted and adopted as statutory law and shall be written in El Lexhatx:


TITLE J: Wittenberg Forums

1. A nationalised forum board shall be made available for the use of all citizens. This forum board shall be titled and styled as “Wittenberg”, or as “Witt” in short.

1.1 No one body or person shall be solely responsible for the administration or moderation of the Wittenberg forums as a whole, nor shall any one body or person be solely responsible for the enforcement of rules or terms or conditions of use for the Wittenberg forums as a whole except in cases before the Uppermost Court.

1.2 For international legal purposes, a representative from the Royal House shall be registered as having ownership of Wittenberg. This form of ownership does not imply any right of control under Talossan law.


2. Wittenberg may be sub-divided in such a manner to facilitate ease of navigation and for purposes of compartmentalisation. 

2.1. Wittenberg shall be sub-divided in such a manner to allow sub-boards or sub-forums for each individual province. The administration and moderation of and the enforcement of rules of conduct and/or terms or conditions of use of these provincial sub-forums shall be the responsibility of each individual province; with each province being responsible for the sub-forum for their respective province only.

2.2 Wittenberg shall be sub-divided in such a manner to allow sub-boards or sub-forums for any of the Houses that compose the Royal Household as the Royal Household sees fit or as law dictates. The administration and moderation of and the enforcement of rules of conduct and/or terms or conditions of use of these sub-forums shall be the responsibility of the Royal Household; or of an individual House within the Royal Household with that individual House being responsible for a sub-forum for that House .

2.3 Wittenberg shall be sub-divided in such a manner to allow sub-boards or sub-forums for the governmental and legislative branches of the Kingdom of Talossa and these sub-divisions must allow for both The Senate and The Cosa to each have a corresponding sub-forum. The administration and moderation of and the enforcement of rules of conduct and/or terms or conditions of use of these particular sub-forums shall be the responsibility of the speaker of the house; with each speaker being responsible for the sub-forum for their respective house only. The Cosa shall agree on a set of Rules of Order for discussion in the Cosa chamber, while the Senate shall agree on a set of Rules of Order for discussion in the Senate chamber; both sets of rules shall include mechanisms for their enforcement and sanctions for their violation. Any parent forums of this sub-division shall be jointly administered and moderated by the speaker of both houses.

2.4 Wittenberg shall be sub-divided in such a manner to allow for a sub-board or sub-forum to be known as The Hopper. The Hopper shall be a public venue for the initial submission of, the viewing of and the commenting on proposed legislation. The administration and moderation of and the enforcement of rules of conduct and/or terms or conditions of use of the Hopper sub-forum shall be the joint responsibility of the speaker of the Cosa, the speaker of the Senate and the Secretary of State. Only the Secretary of State may be permitted to delegate this responsibility to a deputy if required. The Cosa and Senäts shall agree on a set of Rules of Order for discussion in the Hopper, which shall include mechanisms for their enforcement and sanctions for their violation. 

2.5 Wittenberg shall be sub-divided in such a manner to allow sub-boards or sub-forums for the Judiciary of the Kingdom of Talossa and these sub-divisions must allow each individual court to have a corresponding sub-forum. The administration and moderation of and the enforcement of rules of conduct and/or terms or conditions of use of these judicial sub-forums shall be the responsibility of the judiciary with each court responsible for the sub-forum for that respective court only. Any parent forums of the judiciary shall be administered and moderated by the Chief Justice of the Uppermost Court.

2.6 Wittenberg shall be sub-divided in such a manner to allow sub-boards or sub-forums for the use of immigration authorities to allow them to fulfil their statutory obligations defined elsewhere. The administration and moderation of and the enforcement of rules of conduct and/or terms or conditions of use of these immigration sub-forums shall be the joint responsibility of the Secretary of State and the Minister of the Interior. Both the Secretary of State and the Minister of the Interior are permitted to delegate this responsibility to deputies if required.

2.7 Wittenberg may be sub-divided in such a manner to allow sub-boards or sub-forums for use by special interest groups or cultural organisations. The administration and moderation of and the enforcement of rules of conduct and/or terms or conditions of use of these particular sub-forums shall be the responsibility of each individual organisation; with each organisation being responsible for the sub-forum for their respective organisation only.

2.8 Wittenberg shall be sub-divided in such a manner to allow for open public areas to facilitate right of assembly. These areas may be viewable to non-citizens or they may be closed to non-citizens as required. The administration and moderation of and the enforcement of rules of conduct and/or terms or conditions of use of these particular sub-forums shall be the responsibility of the Royal Household.


3. Any rules set by the individual administrators and/or moderators of a sub-forum must not contravene the Organic Law or the Covenant of Rights and Freedoms where such a sub-forum is a public space. Private organisations in control of a sub-forum may set rules of decorum, but cannot infringe on Organic rights.

3.1 No citizen can suffer a blanket ban from all sub-divisions of Wittenberg simultaneously except by order of the Uppermost Court.

3.2 All citizens have a right of appeal against any decision made by any administrator or moderator of any sub-forum. The Uppermost Court is the final court of appeal in these instances.