Vetoed Clarification of the Wild Act (COW-Act)

[Freeze28]

A
Bill
To

Remove the legal gray area surrounding the wilderness.


The people of Democracy Craft, through their elected Representatives in the Congress and the force of law ordained to that Congress by the people through the constitution, do hereby enact the following provisions into law:



1-Short Title and Enactment

(1) This Act may be cited as the “Clarification of the Wild-Act” or as the "COW-Act"​

(2) This Act shall be enacted immediately upon its signage.​

(3) This Act is authored by Representative Freeze28​

(4) This Act has been co-sponsored by Representative ManagerHell​

2-Reasons

(1) The current legal specifications concerning what is and what is not legal in the wilderness area are by far not sufficient and breed frequent confusion.​

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(2) Upon asking different officials of the server, the questions about legality in the wild receive wildly different answers.​

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(3) Since the wild is outside of Redmont, Government regulation also should have its clear limits in this area.​

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(4) This clarification makes it clear to the reader of the law that anything not specified as illegal in section “9.0- Wilderness & Wildlife” and its sub-sections, is legal.​

3-Clarification

(1) Any action in the wild, which is not deliberately specified to be illegal in the wild by another law, is legal.​

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(2) Actions that are illegal in the wild currently include: Murder and Mass Murder of someones Animals (Mass Animal Murder Act), Stealing Animals, Vandalising the National Parks Murder of Pets, Overcrowding and End Portal Obstruction (Jurisdiction Act Section 6) and claiming more than one region (Third WAP Act). As stated above, anything that does not fall under the aforementioned laws and their future amendments, such as future new laws specifically regarding legality in the wilderness, are legal, even if they are normally illegal inside of towns and cities.​

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[Westray]

Veto

This bill is hereby vetoed.

While I appreciate the nature of the bill in terms of clarifying the jurisdiction of the wilderness and what crimes apply there, there are a few concerns I have issued.

In Section 3, it establishes a new process of setting every crime as legal in the wilderness, unless specified as illegal. It now mandates another law for Congress to frequently update whenever they wish to add a crime, and it would potentially allow for the future of a bill consisting of far too many crimes to list. Furthermore, it creates legal ambiguity about certain laws, leaving crime open to be unenforced dangerously.*

*The bill does not account for:

- Commerce crimes; such as fraud, tax evasion, unauthorized medical sales, etc.
- Business crimes; such as corporate espionage, union busting, etc.
- Government crimes; such as corruption, bribery, illicit campaigning, etc.
- Premeditated crimes; such as incitement, conspiracy, etc
- Other chat related crimes; such as giving exam answers, etc.

Therefore, given that, players could commit these crimes and argue that they did it in the wilderness. Whether it be remotely scamming a new player via /msg in the wilderness, or something else of the matter.

My suggestion would be to change the purpose of Section 3 from clarifying what is illegal, to clarifying what is legal. The assumption should be made that all crimes are illegal in the wilderness unless otherwise specified (like how PvP is specified as wilderness-legal in the laws), given Executive Order 07/21.

Naming what is illegal in the wilderness, noting all else as legal. --> Naming what is legal in the wilderness, noting all else as illegal.

Otherwise, in its current form, I cannot sign this bill in good conscience.