[Amendment] Endorsement Caps Act

[Lucklife]

It’s been a long time since the last discussion stalled. I’ll be taking over this and I want to aim to push it through this month.

I’m largely working off Dom’s previous draft, but bringing in some of Ladona’s suggestions and keeping some details. Please give it a read and drop comments.

SECTION I. CITATION

1. This act shall be known and cited as the “Endorsement Caps Act”.

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SECTION II. DEFINITIONS

1. For the purposes of this act, the following terms are defined as:
   …1. Qualified The Endorsement Cap — “a cap on the number of endorsements that a resident nation may have with a qualifier to be subjected to it, that is set by the Viziers and confirmed by the Magisterium.”

…2. Endorsement Cap Violator — “a nation that has more endorsements than the cap set for that particular nation”

…23. Unendorsement Campaign — “the in-game action of reducing a nation’s endorsements using actions including, but not limited to, telegrams, dispatches, private messages, and general off-site announcements.”
…34. Compliance Officer — “the Delegate and any member of the Eastern Pacific Police Service.”
…5. Corrected — “a nation that has been brought below their Qualified the Endorsement Cap through the action(s) of Compliance Officers.”

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SECTION III. ENDORSEMENT CAPS

1. The Viziers may, following a confirmatory vote of the Praesidium, propose to the Magisterium any number of Qualified the Endorsement Caps. These This proposals shall be confirmed via a normal majority vote by the Magisterium.
2. No Qualified The Endorsement Cap may not exceed the number of current Delegate Endorsements for any reason.
3. The current Qualified Endorsement Caps are as follows: for all nations in The East Pacific is 250 endorsements.

…1. The “Qualified Endorsement Cap” shall set the cap for all nations in The East Pacific at 250 endorsements.
…2. Any Qualified Endorsement Cap may be repealed by a ⅔ majority vote of the Magisterium.
4. The Delegate must display the current numerical value of all Qualified the Endorsement Caps on the Region’s World Factbook Entry.
5. The Delegate and the Viziers are not subject to any Qualified the Endorsement Caps.
6. An individual whose term as Delegate has elapsed and is still occupying the in-game Delegacy shall be exempt from any Qualified the Endorsement Caps until the current Delegate or a Vizier takes the position.
…1. The Praesidium may nullify this exemption prior to its natural expiry if:
a) the individual, while not having voluntarily resigned from being Delegate, has been lawfully removed from the Delegacy before their term ended; or
b) if the individual refuses to cooperate with the Praesidium in handing the in-game Delegacy over to the Delegate or Praesidium.

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SECTION IV. VIOLATIONS OF ENDORSEMENT CAPS

1. Any nation who becomes an Endorsement Cap Violator violates the Endorsement Cap shall be “Nnotified” of their violation by a Compliance Officer via an in-game telegram and a mention in an in-game dispatch for at least 3 a days before any in-game action is taken.
   …1. If an emergency situation exists in which Viziers believe the Delegacy is in danger, the Viziers may waive the 3-day any response time and provide an explanation to the Conclave as to why.
2. Any nation that remains in violation of the Endorsement Cap despite having received the proper notice as defined in 4.1, having been under notice for three a days and remaining in violation of this Act, shall be subject to an unendorsement campaign, ejection, OR banishment at the discretion of Compliance Officers. in order to be Corrected.

…1. Ejections and bans may be conducted by any Compliance Officer with the power of Border Control. Influence-spending concerning these actions shall be relegated to those who aren’t Viziers, or else to the Delegate, when reasonably possible.

The Viziers may temporarily suspend punishment under this Act for no more than fourteen days if the offending nation has proven a willingness to comply with the Cap.
If a Resident is found to have purposefully violated their the endorsement cCap on three separate occasions within the span of one year, they shall have committed an indictable offense with a maximum sentence of permanent banishment.

3. Any Resident found to have purposefully violated the Endorsement Cap on three separate occasions within the span of one year shall have committed an indictable offense with a maximum sentence of permanent banishment.
4. The Viziers may suspend punishment for violations of this Act if the offending nation promptly takes appropriate actions to once again comply with the Endorsement Cap.

[AC5230]

A lot of the current act is either A. inefficiently worded or B. “over-governmentalized” to the point of being antiquated. We haven’t written laws like this since before I was a Magister (circa February 2020), so this has definitely been due for condensation/semantic adjustment. No meanings appear to be changed, nonetheless, so no arguments of policy to be made here. Full support.

[Lucklife]

I realised that we don’t use the term corrected anymore after this edit, so I’m axing the top definition too

Also Section 4, 2.1 I’m axing that because we can afford the discretion to the compliance officers. Don’t need to retype it

[Lucklife]

I motion this to a vote

[Zukchiva]

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