Property Law Enactment Bill
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Bill
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This bill aims to assist property inspectors a way to enact laws that were created during the TGC timeframe, and update older laws concerning plot limitations and rules; as well as to add new law.
The Parliament of Stratham enacts:
Section 1. Short Title
(1) This Act is the Property Law Enactment Bill.
Section 2. Commencement
(1) Provision(s) shall come into effect upon passage
(2) More sections can be added with commencement like before.
Section 3. Reasoning
(1) Multiple laws concerning property rights have become outdated and concerns arise with such deprecation. This act aims to update, organize, and expand on certain areas of property laws.
Section 4. Property Laws (Current and Update)
(1) Current Property Laws
(a) Inactivity - The most common property law, which under the Property Inspector guidelines describes a player that has been off for 1+ months as an inactive player and the property may be reported, the process of which follows a report on the forums for a staff member to resolve.
(b) Lack of Progress - This is described as a player purchased plot that has not been finished or worked on in the past 2 weeks with a fully done exterior and interior and leaves a major eyesore. The report process follows a forums report, mail sent to the player to suggest resolving the issue, with a 2 week timeframe following the report to resolve. Failure to comply means a staff member resolves the issue.
(c) Breaking the Law - Any property that has farms, breaks a server law, or does not follow BusinessCraft property guidelines and building style. (This Includes but is not limited to, suburbs outside of the suburbs plot (townhomes / apartments are allowed but must not resemble a suburban home), no more than 2 empty plots in the city, historical building edits, visible farms, and eyesores. Eyesores are expanded upon in (6.A.1).
(d) New TGC implemented rule “You are only allowed 3 plots in the capital city” - This report shall be as followed:
Title: PLAYERNAME - Over The Plot Limit
Format
Playername:
List of Plots:
Details on plots, including if they are finished, a work in progress, eyesore, Etc.
After the report is submitted a Land Officer will work with the player reported to resolve the issue. If the player is not compliant, the Land Officer will elevate this report to the current Minister of the DoC which shall work out a resolution to the issue.
Section 5. Buying plots with intent to resell while owning multiple plots or holding plots away from the community.
1. This has become a very common practice on Businesscraft and tends to cause issues within the community as well as the economy. This act enacts that this is unlawful and causes harm to the Businesscraft community.
(a) Any player may report this to the Department of Justice but it is lawful and encouraged to allow a property inspector to handle these reports as they are very knowledgeable with BC Property Laws.
2. The Department of Justice will contact the Department of Construction and hold an investigation on an accused player reported under this, or shall investigate internally under conjunction with the DoJ.
3. The DoC and DoJ will work together to submit a lawsuit against the player if they deem reasonable, this lawsuit may be handled by the attorney general.
4. A report cannot be ignored and must be investigated within 1 week of being submitted.
5. Reports will be submitted publicly on the forums.
Section 6. Eyesores
(1) Eyesores definition
(a) A large box with no detail, very little color pallet or overdone (subjectable, ask in Property Inspector chat before reporting), lacks windows or scale, pyramids, scale to the surrounding buildings does not match, building only looks good in 1 or 2 directions, the full plot is not utilized (may utilize parts of the plot as a parking lot or add vegetation to plot to utilize full plot)
(2) Reporting protocol for eyesores:
(a) Reporting an eyesore can be very subjectable, before submitting a report a Property Inspector shall follow these steps:
(a1) Communicate with a government official that is a senior in the DoC or above if subjectable.
(a2) Research how long the plot has been owned by the current player and understand if the plot is a work in progress, if they fall under the Lack Of Progress section, report via Lack of Progress.
(a3) Follow established guidelines to report the plot.
Section 7. 3 Plot limit rule
(1) On 3/08/2022 the TGC Voted in favor of “Reducing plots owned in the Capital to 3 per player” but was never properly announced, This bill allows Property inspectors to properly report this.
(2) Should a player encroach the above law, they will be subject to the ruling of the court system, at a maximum punishment of 10,000kr and/or 30 minutes of jailtime.
Authored by DoubbleKerius on behalf of The Department of Construction; revised by Reppal on behalf of the people of Stratham
A
Bill
To
This bill aims to assist property inspectors a way to enact laws that were created during the TGC timeframe, and update older laws concerning plot limitations and rules; as well as to add new law.
The Parliament of Stratham enacts:
Section 1. Short Title
(1) This Act is the Property Law Enactment Bill.
Section 2. Commencement
(1) Provision(s) shall come into effect upon passage
(2) More sections can be added with commencement like before.
Section 3. Reasoning
(1) Multiple laws concerning property rights have become outdated and concerns arise with such deprecation. This act aims to update, organize, and expand on certain areas of property laws.
Section 4. Property Laws (Current and Update)
(1) Current Property Laws
(a) Inactivity - The most common property law, which under the Property Inspector guidelines describes a player that has been off for 1+ months as an inactive player and the property may be reported, the process of which follows a report on the forums for a staff member to resolve.
(b) Lack of Progress - This is described as a player purchased plot that has not been finished or worked on in the past 2 weeks with a fully done exterior and interior and leaves a major eyesore. The report process follows a forums report, mail sent to the player to suggest resolving the issue, with a 2 week timeframe following the report to resolve. Failure to comply means a staff member resolves the issue.
(c) Breaking the Law - Any property that has farms, breaks a server law, or does not follow BusinessCraft property guidelines and building style. (This Includes but is not limited to, suburbs outside of the suburbs plot (townhomes / apartments are allowed but must not resemble a suburban home), no more than 2 empty plots in the city, historical building edits, visible farms, and eyesores. Eyesores are expanded upon in (6.A.1).
(d) New TGC implemented rule “You are only allowed 3 plots in the capital city” - This report shall be as followed:
Title: PLAYERNAME - Over The Plot Limit
Format
Playername:
List of Plots:
Details on plots, including if they are finished, a work in progress, eyesore, Etc.
After the report is submitted a Land Officer will work with the player reported to resolve the issue. If the player is not compliant, the Land Officer will elevate this report to the current Minister of the DoC which shall work out a resolution to the issue.
Section 5. Buying plots with intent to resell while owning multiple plots or holding plots away from the community.
1. This has become a very common practice on Businesscraft and tends to cause issues within the community as well as the economy. This act enacts that this is unlawful and causes harm to the Businesscraft community.
(a) Any player may report this to the Department of Justice but it is lawful and encouraged to allow a property inspector to handle these reports as they are very knowledgeable with BC Property Laws.
2. The Department of Justice will contact the Department of Construction and hold an investigation on an accused player reported under this, or shall investigate internally under conjunction with the DoJ.
3. The DoC and DoJ will work together to submit a lawsuit against the player if they deem reasonable, this lawsuit may be handled by the attorney general.
4. A report cannot be ignored and must be investigated within 1 week of being submitted.
5. Reports will be submitted publicly on the forums.
Section 6. Eyesores
(1) Eyesores definition
(a) A large box with no detail, very little color pallet or overdone (subjectable, ask in Property Inspector chat before reporting), lacks windows or scale, pyramids, scale to the surrounding buildings does not match, building only looks good in 1 or 2 directions, the full plot is not utilized (may utilize parts of the plot as a parking lot or add vegetation to plot to utilize full plot)
(2) Reporting protocol for eyesores:
(a) Reporting an eyesore can be very subjectable, before submitting a report a Property Inspector shall follow these steps:
(a1) Communicate with a government official that is a senior in the DoC or above if subjectable.
(a2) Research how long the plot has been owned by the current player and understand if the plot is a work in progress, if they fall under the Lack Of Progress section, report via Lack of Progress.
(a3) Follow established guidelines to report the plot.
Section 7. 3 Plot limit rule
(1) On 3/08/2022 the TGC Voted in favor of “Reducing plots owned in the Capital to 3 per player” but was never properly announced, This bill allows Property inspectors to properly report this.
(2) Should a player encroach the above law, they will be subject to the ruling of the court system, at a maximum punishment of 10,000kr and/or 30 minutes of jailtime.
Authored by DoubbleKerius on behalf of The Department of Construction; revised by Reppal on behalf of the people of Stratham
