Be it enacted by the Landsraad of the Imperial Republic of Shireroth;
1. That the Procedures of the Landsraad be amended as follows:
A. Members of the Landsraad
1. Membership in the Landsraad is determined in accordance with the Imperial Charter and includes only those with a title of Equestrian rank and higher.
B. Votes
1. Each Noble of the Patrician Rank, known as a Patrician, is allocated one vote
3. A Noble of lesser rank then Patrician may never have more then 5 votes.
4. Votes possessed and cast by a noble must always be integers.
5. A Patrician may assign votes as he sees fit amongst his subordinate nobles, provided the above criteria.
6. Vote allocations may not be changed except by the Patrician, or other duly appointed individual. It is the responsibility of a new Patrician to update their vote allocations.
7. Should a Patrician other than the one who made the original post in the Big Fat Vote Thread wish to change the vote allocations, zie should make a new post and then request the Praetor to archive the old one.
C. Bills
1. The Landsraad passes changes to the LawBook. Each bill is presented in the form of an unambiguous change to the LawBook, and must have a name used by no bill presented before it. Any member of the Landsraad, the Kaiser, and the Praetor, can present a bill for voting.
2. A majority of those citizens present and voting at the Landsraad Front Gate may vote to introduce a bill or resolution in the Landsraad. The Landsraad must then consider the bill or resolution. No Landsraad member may participate in this vote.
a. If a bill is sent to the Landsraad in this manner, the Praetor shall introduce it in the Landsraad with information about how large the majority was that sent it to the Landsraad.
3. The Landsraad can also pass Resolutions, which is a non-binding opinion of the Landsraad.
D. Voting
1. After a bill has been presented to the Landsraad, there is a period of exactly four days (96 hours) during which the members of the Landsraad can then vote on it.
2. Each member, or their emissary, may cast zir
3. A vote only applies to a bill exactly as it has been presented.
4. At the end of the period, the Praetor counts the votes, announces the result, and if the ayes outnumber the nays, updates the LawBook with the changes.
5. The Landsraad voting shall be public.
7. Changes made to the Big Fat Vote Thread will not be counted towards already active bills.
E. The Praetor
1. The Praetor is appointed in accordance with the Imperial Charter and Lawbook, and has the rights and obligations established therein.
F. Speech
1. Any member of the Landsraad, any duly appointed Emissary, and the Prætor, can freely express their opinion on any bill presented in the Landsraad. All others are barred from speaking in the Landsraad and are directed to speak at the Front Gate.
G. The Deputy Prætor
1. The Deputy Prætor shall act in stead of the Prætor should the Prætor not be available.
2. When acting as Prætor in the manner stated in 1., the Deputy Prætor shall have all powers and duties of the Prætor.
3. In G. 2., "not be available", shall be considered to mean either a stated leave of absence or if the Prætor does not, within 48 hours, fulfill zir obligations to the Landsraad.
H. Emissaries
1. A voting noble may appoint a representative known as an Emissary.
2. An Emissary shall be granted the vote and voice of a noble, to represent that noble within the Landsraad.
3. While a noble has an Emissary appointed and active within the Landsraad, said noble may only speak or vote through that Emissary.
4. A noble may temporarily revoke the status of an appointed Emissary for a single debate, at which point the Emissary must retire from the debate without comment.
5. If an Emissary has been forced to retire from a debate by the Noble they represent, they cannot return to the debate, nor may another Emissary be appointed.
6. A noble's Emissary must reside within the subdivision that the Noble resides within or rules.
7. A noble may only have one Emissary appointed at any given time.
