Amendments to Citizenship Act and Public Official Disclosure Act

[Domais]

Thanks everyone for their feedback, please see the new draft. This one combines the Public Official Disclosure Act and Citizenship Act into one law

SECTION I: CITATION

1. This Act shall be known and cited as the “Citizenship Act.”

SECTION II: ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CITIZENSHIP OFFICE AND THE APPLICATION THREAD

1. The Citizenship Office (“Office”) is hereby established to oversee the process of naturalization. It shall be composed of the Viziers, the Eastern Pacific Police Service Commissioner, and other Citizenship Officials as confirmed by the Magisterium. The DelegateArchon cannot serve concurrently as a Commissioner.
2. The Grand VizierDelegate shall lead and set out the procedures of the Office.
3. The Magisterium shall confirm Citizenship Officials nominated by the Grand VizierDelegate via a 2/3 majority vote for an indefinite term. The Magisterium may remove Citizenship Officials by the same majority.
4. The Office shall establish an official subforum thread (“ThreadSubforum”) that can be utilized for official records, inquiries, the posting of applications, acceptance or denial of applications, acceptance of requests, and other purposes as seen proper by the Office or this law.

SECTION III: NATURALIZATION

1. Residents seeking to become Citizens must:
   1.1. Post their application as a new thread (“Thread”) within the Subforum,
   1.12. State within their application their Resident nation, which must be a member of the World Assembly (WA),. and post said application in the medium designated by the Office,
   1.3. Detail within the application any relevant past affiliations and positions held from the previous two years, alongside any current affiliations, offices, or positions held within other regions, where applicable.
   1.24. Respond in confirmation to a telegram sent to their nation from a Citizenship Official, and
   1.35. Have their application accepted by the Office.
2. All applications must list a valid WA Resident nation operated by their respective applicants. Applications not meeting these criteria shall be denied.
3. A Citizenship Official shall notify a Resident, via an in-game telegram, on whether their application for Citizenship was accepted or denied.
4. The Office may deny any Citizenship application for reasons of regional security concerns, incomplete application, provision of falsified information and/or ejection from the WA. Said denial may be appealed to the Conclave within two weeks of denial.
   4.1. The Praesidium may vote to overrule the Office’s decision to grant Citizenship for reasons of regional security provided the decision is made within two weeks of the citizenship being granted.
   4.2. If a telegram from the Citizenship Office is not replied to within fourteen days, the associated citizenship application shall automatically expire, in which case a new citizenship application must be submitted in order to be accepted.
5. Upon becoming a Citizen, a Resident is required to maintain continuous residency and World Assembly status with the Citizen nation they stated their application (“recorded Citizen nation”).
   6. Upon becoming a Citizen, the Citizen shall bear a continuous and affirmative obligation to supplement and update their recorded Thread to reflect any subsequent changes, modifications, or additions to foreign affiliations, offices, or positions.
   67. In the event a Citizen wishes to change what nation the Office has noted as their recorded Citizen nation, they shall request the Office, within the designated Thread, to change one of their recorded nations to a new nation they own. A telegram from the new nation shall be sent to a Citizenship Official.
   67.1. A Citizenship Official shall notify a Citizen, via an in-game telegram, once their request for a change is granted by the Office in their recorded Thread.
   78. Active soldiers of the Eastern Pacific Sovereign Army (“EPSA”) as verified by the Overseeing Officer must return WA status to their citizen nation whenever they are not actively deployed in a foreign region on the orders of the EPSA. The Overseeing Officer shall keep records of all deployments for the Citizenship Office to review for the enforcement of this clause. EPSA soldiers may maintain private WA status nations over an extended period of time provided the Viziers are made aware of the operation and the deployed nation in question.
   89. The provisions of this section relating to World Assembly status, except 3.4, shall not apply if an applicant with permanent World Assembly status in a foreign region is approved by a majority vote of the Praesidium. Citizens approved in this way must maintain continuous World Assembly status in the foreign nation they list and continuous residency in a nation of The East Pacific named in their application as well.
   89.1. Citizens approved in this way may change their recorded Resident or recorded WA nation through the same process by which WA Citizens may change their Citizen nation under clause 3.67.

SECTION IV: CITIZENSHIP AUDIT

1. The Office shall use the ThreadSubforum to track and document the following: a Citizenship shall be invalid 12 hours after
   1.1. Failure to maintain residency with their recorded Resident nation,
   1.2. Failure to maintain WA membership in their recorded WA nation.
   1.3. Failure to comply with the process detailed in Section 3.67. within the aforementioned 12-hour timeframe.
   1.4. After an official compliance notice is issued by the Office, failure to maintain a current and compliant citizenship disclosure in accordance with Section 3.6, provided that such noncompliance remains unremedied beyond the aforementioned 12-hour timeframe and the expiration of any supplemental grace period explicitly granted at the discretion of the Office.
2. If the Citizen returns their recorded Resident nation to the region or their WA membership to their recorded WA nation and issues a notification of such return within ther recorded Thread before the 12 hour period established in Section 4.1 expires, their Citizenship shall remain valid.
   2.1 The Citizen may also keep their Citizenship valid if they successfully change their recorded Resident nation or recorded WA nation to another nation with valid citizenship or WA membership within the same 12 hour period, following Section 3 procedures.
3. Exceptions to Section 4.1 and its subsections may be established by additional law. Any Citizen may reapply for Citizenship upon removal.
4. Any Resident may renounce their Citizenship by notifying the Office in their recorded Thread.

SECTION V: CITIZENSHIP RECORDS

1. The Office shall maintain an official list of all Citizens. Said list shall remain publicly viewable on The East Pacific forums within the Subforum. The list may be posted in another subforum thread besides the ThreadSubforum if the forums are utilized for this purpose.
2. Approval or denial of a Citizenship application or change of a Citizen’s nations shall be the moment when the Office states within the relevant Thread that an application has been denied or accepted or that a change of nation was accepted.
3. Removal of Citizenship shall be the moment when the Office marks, within the Thread, that a Citizen’s Citizenship is invalid or a Citizen has renounced their registration.

SECTION VI: PROSCRIPTION

1. Proscription shall be a status which confers banishment from the region for reasons of regional security based on actions committed abroad or against The East Pacific. No proscription may be issued against any resident for reason of summary or indictable offense; all such instances must be tried by Conclave.
2. Individuals with no known resident nation may be proscribed by the Praesidium through any process dictated by the Standing Orders of the Praesidium.
3. Non-citizen residents may be proscribed by the Praesidium through a 2/3 majority vote, the administration of which shall be defined by the Standing Orders of the Praesidium.
4. No Citizen may be proscribed by the Praesidium.
5. The Grand VizierDelegate shall maintain a public record of proscribed groups and nations on the forums, as well as the reasons behind proscription..
6. The Delegate must be informed upon the beginning of a proscription process, as well as once a decision is made. Grand VizierThe Delegate must announce the justification of each proscription., or consign such a task to the Delegate. This announcement must adequately justify the proscription.
7. The maintenance of a resident nation by an individual proscribed by the Praesidium shall be considered a summary offense with a sentence of banishment for as long as the proscription lasts.
8. The Praesidium may alter or lift any proscription, or establish a time limit or terms within the initial proscription decision. Alterations or reversals shall require a 2/3 majority vote.
9. Any proscribed nation may appeal to the Conclave, in which the length or terms of proscription may be altered, including an exception to group proscriptions, or the proscription may be fully lifted, if it is determined to be unreasonable or unjustified.

SECTION VII: VOTE FRAUD

1. Nothing in this Act permits an individual to maintain multiple Citizenships, which shall constitute an indictable offense with a maximum sentence of permanent banishment.
2. Any individual who attempts to vote during DelegateArchon Elections and regional referenda without valid Citizenship shall be committing an indictable offense with a maximum sentence of one year banishment.
   3. Any individual who knowingly or with intent to deceive provides fraudulent, inaccurate, or misleading information, or commits a material omission regarding their historical or concurrent foreign affiliations, offices, or positions within an initial application or subsequent citizenship disclosure in accordance with Section 3.6, shall be guilty of an indictable offense with a maximum sentence of one year banishment.

SECTION VIII: TRANSITION

1. Upon the enactment of this Amendment, any citizen with a valid disclosure filed under the Public Official Disclosure Act shall be automatically converted by the Office into an active citizenship application thread within the Subforum.

2. Any current Citizen lacking a valid historical disclosure form shall, within a timeframe prescribed by the Office, initiate a dedicated thread within the Subforum for the express purpose of fulfilling the ongoing disclosure requirements established herein.

The Public Official Disclosure Act will be repealed in a concurrent vote.