Bill: Vote Unregulated Chestshops Penalization Act

[eatean]

CONGRESS OF THE
COMMONWEALTH OF REDMONT
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A BILL TO

Penalize the Operation of Unregulated Chestshops




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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 ‘Unregulated Chestshops Penalization Act’.

(2) This Act shall be enacted one week following its signing.

(3) This Act has been authored by Representative eatean and co-authored by Deputy Speaker EmeraldGuuy.

(4) This Act has been co-sponsored by Deputy Speaker EmeraldGuuy, and Representative Dogen851

(5) This Act amends the following acts:

(a) Criminal Terminology Act

(b) Civil Code Act

2. Reasons and Intent

(1) Unregulated chestshops which utilize hoppers, intentionally or otherwise, mislead players.

(2) These chestshops serve no use to the public interest, and actively waste the time of players.

(3) This wasting of time results in direct monetary impact to players.

PART II - DEFINITIONS
(1) For the purposes of this Act, the following definitions shall apply:

(a) Publicly Listed. A chestshop that is visible to consumers through the /find command, ads listed in chat, or any other server-provided public interface.

(b) Buy-able Chestshop. A chestshop where a person could buy from the chestshop if it hypothetically had stock

(c) Sell-able Chestshop. A chestshop where a person could sell to the chestshop if it hypothetically were emtpy

PART III — AMENDMENTS

(1) The Criminal Terminology Act shall be amended as follows:

11 - Unregulated Chestshop

(1) "Unregulated Chestshop" means a Chestshop that meets (a and (b):
(a) the Chestshop is a Publicly Listed Chestshop; and
(b) either (i) or (ii) is true:
(i) the Chestshop is a Buy-able Chestshop and the Chestshop displays more of an item available for purchase than there are of that same item inside the Chestshop; or
(ii) the Chestshop is a Sell-able Chestshop and the Chestshop displays a greater capacity to accept the item it purchases than the capacity the Chestshop actually has to accept the item;

(2) Part XIII of the Civil Code Act shall be amended as follows:

12. Operating an Unregulated Chestshop
Violation Type: Administrative
Remedy:
(a) First violation - 6 Civil Penalty Units;
(b) Subsequent violations - Three times the Civil Penalty Units imposed under the person's most recent prior violation under this Section; 45 minutes imprisonment
A person commits an offence if the person:
(a) possesses an Unregulated Chestshop; and
(b) has been notified by the Department of Commerce of possessing an Unregulated Chestshop on the first violation; and
(c) possesses an Unregulated Chestshop at any time following the expiry of 4 days after the notification under this section.

 

[EmeraldGuuy]

- seems better

 

[HatManMC]

Abstaining until I can get proper legal counsel on whether this bill works

 

[HatManMC]

Votes before passage of H-43/40

 

[unalign]

- Some of my issues are still unsolved, I could motion to amend but I would have to think about the potential effect of legislating a bug:

• It should be allowed for an incorrect buy-only chestshop to show less than the real amount (if its a chestshop being *fed* by hoppers), as it doesn't hurt buyer.
• It should be allowed for an incorrect sell-only chestshop to show more than the real amount (a sell chestshop which has a hopper to pull items), as it doesn't hurt the seller.
• Subsequent offenses have no limit. (i dont mind this much)
• One week may be too short. (i dont mind this much)

(i motioned to amend)

 

[greymc]

- Changing to an aye because I want winter to tiebreak

 

[Senate]

Votes prior to a motion to amend (S-50/40 & H-48/40)

 

[unalign]

- The new plugin update seems to have fixed /find, so I think this is no longer needed?