Bills

WHEREAS, The practice of cryonics, or the practice of "freezing" one's body after legal death is becoming more and more common, and

WHEREAS, this is not exactly a frivolous bill, so keep reading, and

WHEREAS, Some Talossans may choose to undergo this practice for themselves, and

WHEREAS, Citizenship upon reanimation might get a little bit strange for these formerly "dead" patients, and

WHEREAS, Talossan citizens might not have to worry about too much if we can recognize the cryonics process, now

THEREFORE, we, the Ziu, enact the following:

Section 1: The Kingdom of Talossa formally recognizes cryonic preservation as a valid form of disposition of human remains.

Section 2: Talossan citizens may register their wishes for cryonic suspension with the Royal Governor of Péngöpäts, who shall keep the records private and frozen unless otherwise directed by the citizen.

Section 3: Upon the citizen's death, the Royal Governor shall make known the citizen's wishes, and direct that the Secretary of State strike the citizen from the active citizenship roll, and add him to the List of Suspended Citizens which shall also be maintained by the Secretary of State. Suspended Citizens shall be, and ought to be, considered Citizens of Talossa and Talossan in nature throughout the time that they are suspended.

Section 4: Upon reanimation of the cryonically preserved citizen, the Secretary of State shall re-administer the Oath of Citizenship to the citizen, and upon doing so, strike him from the List of Suspended Citizens and add his name to the citizenship roll.

Section 5: In the event that the cryonic process dehumanized the citizen, or in any other way "zombified" the citizen, the Secretary of State shall not re-administer the Oath of Citizenship, and the citizen's name shall remain on the List of Suspended Citizens until such time as his humanity and personality can be restored.

Section 6: A reanimated citizen who feels that he has been improperly given a "zombified" classification may appeal the decision by the Secretary of State directly to the Cort Pü Inalt. The Cort's decision is final.

WHEREAS, the catchment area system is a time-honored method of assigning immigrants to provinces, established by the People to Provinces, Again, Act (17RC18) in the 17th Cosa, which itself was a regularization of the pre-existing geographically-based provincial assignment system that dated back at least to the 8th Cosa; and

WHEREAS, many immigrants have been understandably frustrated by the seemingly arbitrary provincial assignments that sometimes result from the "closure" system imposed by the The People to Provinces (No More Microprovinces) Act (34RZ9), which was an overreaction to an extraordinary and temporary situation (the depopulation of some provinces in the Kingdom caused by the Great Schism of 2004) proposed by King Robert I just a few months before he abdicated the throne and renounced his citizenship; and

WHEREAS, this frustration can be ameliorated to a significant degree by changing one -- count it, one -- letter of current law; and

WHEREAS, You Are Where You Live; now

THEREFORE, be it resolved by the Ziu that section 14a of 34RZ9 is hereby amended to delete the third letter "w" and substitute in its place the letters "hr."

WHEREAS Article Nine, Section Eleven of the Organic Law states that, "If any bill seeks to amend, change, or repeal any Article of the Organic Law or any Law, the bill must specify exactly the Law(s) or Article(s), which it seeks to amend, change, or repeal." and

WHEREAS 25RZ35 (The Royal Bank and Post Charter Act) superseded 6RC6 but doesn't explicitly repeal it, and

WHEREAS that means 6RC6 (The Postal Administration Act) is still in force, and

WHEREAS that means that any stamp based activities of the Royal Bank & Post could be aggravated by this, and

WHEREAS we now have a head of the Royal Bank & Post who might actually get something done in this regard and we don't want anything to stand in his way,

THEREFORE we, the Ziu, hereby repeal 6RC6 (The Postal Administration Act).