Stop Illicit Business Advertising Act

[EATB]

CONGRESS OF THE
COMMONWEALTH OF REDMONT

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A BILL TO

AMEND THE CRIMINAL CODE TO PREVENT THE ADVERTISING OF ILLICIT BUSINESSES

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The people of the Commonwealth of Redmont, 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:
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PART I — PRELIMINARIES

1. Short Title and Enactment

(1) This Act may be cited as the ‘Stop Illicit Business Advertising Act’

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

(3) This Act has been authored by Representative EATB.

(4) This Act has been co-sponsored by Representative Stanley582.

(5) This Act amends the following acts:

(a) Criminal Code Act

2. Reasons and Intent

(1) While the Criminal Code Act successfully prohibits the direct advertising of "illicit services, items, or criminal transactions," a loophole exists where players can bypass this ban by advertising the business name or storefront itself, such as promoting a illicit substance dispensary under a corporate alias, rather than the specific contraband.

(2) This loophole allows illicit commercial operations to maintain highly effective, public marketing pipelines in standard advertising channels, severely undermining our illicit substance enforcement laws.

(3) This amendment closes the loophole by extending the Illegal Advertising prohibition to any business that predominantly engages in the sale, trade, or distribution of illicit services, items, or substances, while strictly maintaining the legitimate Black Market (BM) exception in designated channels.

PART II — AMENDMENTS TO THE CRIMINAL CODE ACT

3. Amendments to Illegal Advertising

(1) Section 7 of PART X: MISCELLANEOUS OFFENCES of the Criminal Code Act shall be amended as follows:

"7 - Illegal Advertising
Offence Type: Summary
Penalty:
First Offence - 5 Penalty Units.
Second Offence - 10 Penalty Units.
Subsequent Offences - 25 Penalty Units.
A person commits an offence if the person:
(a) advertises a business, goods, or a political campaign in a public chat not designated for advertising; or
(b) advertises a gaming institution or gambling in a public chat designated for advertising; or
(c) advertises an illicit service, item, or other form of transaction that is deemed criminal by this act.
(c) advertises an illicit service or item as defined by the Criminal Terminology Act, or other form of transaction deemed criminal by this Criminal Code Act, or advertises any business that predominantly engages in the sale, trade, or distribution of such illicit services, items, or substances.
(i) This offence shall not occur when it is advertising specifically for a BM's (Black Market's) services in a proper channel.
Relevant Law:"

 

[TheArtemis_]

AYE - I am generally against criminalising the advertisement of illicit items, as I believe it would limit CrimeRP. But given that the original definition already included illicit items and this is merely an improvement, I see no reason to NAY.

 

[Technofied]

Presidential Assent

This bill has received Presidential assent and is hereby signed into law.

Reason: The Criminal Code Act banned advertising illicit items directly, but not the businesses selling them.

This Bill closes that loophole by extending the Illegal Advertising offence to any business predominantly engaged in illicit trade, while preserving the Black Market exception.

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