Legislation:SBR/P001-010/Current text

Enactment clause, short and long titles

Be it enacted by the Grand Forum of All Citizens, as follows—

Proposition 001-010, Local Communities Act 2018

An Act to establish a Magistracy for Local Communities, the local governments themselves, and provisions for the enactment of Local Ordinances.

Chapter I: On the Administrative Divisions of the Serene Republic

Section A: Wards of Our Serene Republic

1. Our Serene Republic is to be divided geographically into Wards.
2. A Ward is to serve as a division for administrative, statistical, legislative or other governmental purposes.
3. The Wards of Our Serene Republic are:
   1. Beaconite Satirno;
   2. Civetia;
   3. Isambard
   4. Langthorne;
   5. New Winterdown;
   6. Sorrelset.

Section B: Incorporation of Cities

1. The Grand Forum may by exercise of a Charter of Incorporation establish Cities.
2. A City is to serve the same purposes as a Ward.
3. The border of a City may be independent of a Ward; that is, they may cross Ward boundaries or be entirely contained in a single Ward, or they may be defined to be coterminous with Wards.
4. No more than one City may occupy the same area.
5. Cities and Wards may be known collectively as ‘Local Communities’.

Chapter II: On the Magistracy for Local Communities

Section A: Establishment of the Magistracy

1. There is to be a Magistracy for Local Communities (‘the Magistracy’).
2. The Magistracy is to be led by a Local Magistrate, elected by the Grand Forum.
3. The Magistracy is mandated to manage the following areas of policy:
   1. To promote the welfare of residents and Local Communities;
   2. To give effect to Local Ordinances where appropriate.
4. The Local Magistrate may appoint a Deputy Local Magistrate.

Section B: Establishment of the Wardenries

1. Within the Magistracy there is to be a series of Undermagistracies known as Wardenries and Municipal Authorities (collectively ‘Local Authorities’).
2. There is to be a Wardenry for each Ward and a Municipal Authority for each City.
3. Each Wardenry is to be headed by a Warden, and each Municipal Authority by a Mayor (collectively ‘Local Executives’). These are appointed by the Local Magistrate.
4. Where a City and a Ward are coterminous, the Wardenry and the Municipal Authority are form a single Undermagistracy known as a Municipal Wardenry.
5. A Warden will hold the title of “Warden of [X]”, where X is the name of the Ward they lead.
6. A Mayor will hold the title of “Mayor of [X]”, where X is the name of the City they lead.
7. A leader of a coterminous City and Ward will hold the title of “Warden and Mayor of [X]”, where X is the name of the Ward and City they lead.
8. Local Executives may appoint Deputy Local Executives or other Junior Offices to support the purpose of their Office.

Chapter III: On Local Ordinances

Section A: Effecting of Local Ordinances

1. The Grand Forum is to have the ability to enact Local Ordinances.
2. Local Ordinances do not take effect throughout all of Our Serene Republic by default, as any other decision of the Grand Forum would, but rather each Local Executive may issue a Writ of Ordinance Effect, bringing a particular Local Ordinance into effect within their Local Community.
3. The Grand Forum may choose to phrase a particular Local Ordinance such that only select parts of the Local Ordinance may be brought into effect, instead of the whole Local Ordinance.
4. The Grand Forum may specify that only Wardens or only Mayors may bring a particular Local Ordinance into effect in their Local Communities/

Section B: Relationships between Wardenries and Municipal Authorities

1. Where a Ward and a City overlap, it must be made clear in the Charter of Incorporation for the City which of the Local Executives’ Writs of Local Ordinance are to take effect in that area.

Section C: Amendments to the Ballot Act

1. R000-001 Chapter I, Section A, Article 1 is to have a new list item inserted following list item (d), as follows:
   “Local Ordinances, denoted O, which take the form of a written bill of legislation;”
   The following list items are to be renumbered accordingly.
2. Chapter I of the same is to have a new section inserted following Section C, as follows:
   Section D: Citations and formatting of Local Ordinances
   1. A Local Ordinance must have a Short Title and a Long Title. The Short Title must take the form “[Name] Local Ordinance [Year of Enactment] ([Additional Descriptors])”, where the Name and Additional Descriptors are chosen by the Electors proposing it, and the Additional Descriptors are optional. The Long Title must begin with “A Local Ordinance to...” and then describe the purpose of the Local Ordinance. All provisions of the Local Ordinance must be described by the Long Title.
   2. Each Local Ordinance must have its articles formatted in the following hierarchy:
   (a) Chapters, numbered sequentially with Roman numerals;
   (b) Sections, denoted sequentially by uppercase letters of the Roman alphabet;
   (c) Articles, numbered sequentially by Arabic numerals;
   (d) List items, denoted sequentially by lowercase letters of the Roman alphabet;
   Chapters and Sections represent divisions of the Local Ordinance and may have titles. Articles contain actual legal provisions, and any lists required in an Article will be written in List item form. If a Local Ordinance is short enough to not require Chapters or Sections, they may be omitted.
   3. Each Local Ordinance must begin with an Enactment Clause of the following form:
   “Be it permitted by the Grand Forum of All Citizens, for Local Authorities to bring into effect as follows—”
   The following sections are to be renumbered accordingly.