Quote from: Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP on Yesterday at 01:40:00 PM

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on Yesterday at 01:35:44 PMThe last provision is "FURTHERMORE, all the changes described in this bill shall only take effect after ratification by referendum," so the statutory change is held up until the referendum passes to ratify the rest.

I don't understand. The statutory changes can only take effect after at least a full calendar year as per OrgLaw IV.2.1, whereas the amendment to the OrgLaw itself would take effect immediately after the referendum has passed. That's the exact timing problem that I was talking about.

Oh, of course.  I forgot that bit.  Let me fix it real quick.

As I recall, the big problem was neglecting the Zuavs.  Putting someone in charge of supervising the Zuavs who otherwise has nothing to do is a recipe for perpetuating that problem.

Generally speaking, people probably shouldn't have a job where their only role is to do one thing infrequently.  Since that means that either (a) you're putting an active person in that job rather than someplace where they could be more useful to the people, (b) you're stacking that job on top of other jobs for an active person, which which we're admitting it's not a person's worth of work, or (c) you put in a relatively inactive person who might not do it.  None of those three make a lot of sense.

It's really just a question of management, which is why I think it makes sense to reorganize things.  I mean, you held four roles in your Cabinet (Seneschal, Culture, Immigration, Deputy A-X), and Mic'haglh held five (Deputy Foreign, Distain, Public Records, Technology, and Finance).  If we're stacking so many jobs, probably we need to take a look at the whole system.

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on Yesterday at 01:35:44 PMThe last provision is "FURTHERMORE, all the changes described in this bill shall only take effect after ratification by referendum," so the statutory change is held up until the referendum passes to ratify the rest.

I don't understand. The statutory changes can only take effect after at least a full calendar year as per OrgLaw IV.2.1, whereas the amendment to the OrgLaw itself would take effect immediately after the referendum has passed. That's the exact timing problem that I was talking about.

Ah shoot can't believe I missed it

*stares in "was bashed for neglecting the Ministry of Defence for multiple terms"*

The last provision is "FURTHERMORE, all the changes described in this bill shall only take effect after ratification by referendum," so the statutory change is held up until the referendum passes to ratify the rest.

Excuse me, how does this fix the timing issue I mentioned earlier?

Azul.

With much regret the Chancery, having noted that the citizens noted below have failed to vote or respond to a national census within the last two years, issues the present to serve as Writ of Termination for the same citizens, pursuant to Article X Section 5 of the Organic Law.

• James Coffey (#389)
• Mitchel Paul (#542)
• John Andrews (#561)
• Naseer Ahmed @naseerahmed (#563)
• Ivan Mollov @Ivan Mollov (#567)
• Sérgio Flumignan @Sergio F  (#569)
• Yanier González Amaró @Yanier (#570)
• Catrină Buc'haran @Catrină Buc'haran (#577)

Sir Lüc da Schir
Secretar d'Estat / Secretary of State

Okay, I think that's everything?  I also fixed the blank section of that article.

THEREFORE, be it enacted that the following provision be added to el Lexhatx as subsubsection H.4.1.1:

QuoteThe total number of party seats is twenty.

FURTHERMORE, Org.IV.4, which currently reads:

Quote1. In addition to the seats apportioned between parties after a General Election, the Secretary of State shall assign one Cosa seat to any citizen who becomes eligible to vote after the most recent Election Deadline but before the dissolution of the Cosa, upon the request of such citizen, up to a maximum number as this Organic Law might provide. Any additional seat so assigned shall cease to exist should its holder vacate or be removed from the seat and shall not be subject to the procedures for filling vacancies in the Cosa, and shall also cease to exist upon the dissolution of the Cosa.. (sic)
2. The maximum number of seats that may be assigned to new citizens between general elections shall be 7.5% of the seats apportioned between parties, rounded up to a whole number of seats.

shall be struck from the law.

FURTHERMORE, Section 5 of Article IV, which currently reads:

QuoteEach person holding one or more seats is a representative known as a "Member of the Cosa" (MC). MCs may not be removed from office except by a two-thirds vote by the Cosa and approval by the King. An MC vacates his seats if he fails to vote on two consecutive Clarks, or if he resigns from office or dies. The seats of any MC who is removed or vacates shall be reassigned according to Section 4, above.

shall be renumbered as Section 4 and altered to instead read:

QuoteEach person holding one or more seats is a representative known as a "Member of the Cosa" (MC). MCs may not be removed from office except by a two-thirds vote by the Cosa and approval by the King. An MC vacates his seats if he fails to vote on two consecutive Clarks, or if he resigns from office or dies. The seats of any MC who is removed or vacates shall be reassigned according to Section 3, above.

FURTHERMORE, Section 6 of Article IV shall be renumbered as Section 5,

FURTHERMORE, Section 7 of Article IV shall be renumbered as Section 6,

FURTHERMORE, Section 8 of Article IV shall be renumbered as Section 7,

FURTHERMORE, Section 9 of Article IV shall be renumbered as Section 8,

FURTHERMORE, Section 10 of Article IV shall be renumbered as Section 9,

FURTHERMORE, Section 12 of Article IV shall be renumbered as Section 10,

FURTHERMORE, all the changes described in this bill shall only take effect after ratification by referendum and after a full calendar year has passed, and will otherwise be considered to be null and void.