Bill: Draft Town Offences Act

[Imza]

A
BILL
To
Amend the Criminal Code Act​

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:

1 - Short Title and Enactment
(1) This Act may be cited as the 'Town Offences Act'
(2) This Act shall be enacted immediately upon its signage.
(3) This Act has been authored and proposed by Representative RealImza.
(5) This Act has been co-sponsored by Representative Talion77.

2 - Reasons
(1) With the passing of this Criminal Code Act, all town offences passed by the relevant town legislatures became null and unenforceable.
(2) Allowing towns to create their own crimes would enhance town autonomy and criminal RP.
(3) This act aims to do that.

3 - Amendment
(1) Part I, Section 3 of the Criminal Code Act shall be amended as follows:
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3 - Codification of Criminal Law
(1) This Code constitutes the exclusive and exhaustive listing of criminal offences within the jurisdiction of Redmont.

(2) No person may be charged with a criminal offence unless that offence is contained within this Code.

(3) Any new offence that seeks to impose a fine or imprisonment must be introduced as an amendment to this Code.

(4) Subsections 2 and 3 shall not apply to towns. Towns may establish both summary and indictable offences within their jurisdiction, including associated fines, penalties, and imprisonment.

(5) The town’s authorities, as defined in a town’s constitution or bylaws, shall carry out enforcement or prosecution of town-level offences.
(a) Summary offences may be enforced locally by the town’s authorities. In the absence of local enforcement for summary offences, the Department of Homeland Security shall have authority to enforce them.
(b) Indictable offences established by a town shall be prosecuted in the relevant federal courts, with the town’s designated legal office acting as the prosecuting authority.

(6) All town-level offences shall be required to comply with federal legislation.
(a) Where a town offence conflicts with federal legislation, the federal legislation shall prevail.
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