Quote:Law Standards Act
An Act to define the standard of all laws in the Coalition of The South Pacific
 
1. Scope
A. All bills, amendments, and repeals brought before the Assembly should be written in a formal and consistent manner
B. No bill or amendment will be brought to a vote in the Assembly unless it follows the formatting outlined in this Act

2. Formatting of Bills and Amendments
A. Titles should be bolded and centered
B. Subtitles should be italicized and centered
C. Strict formatting of bulleting
(1). Numbered titles
(2). Capital Letters
(3). Numbers in Parentheses
(4) Lowercase Letters
D. Addendums should be numbered and at the bottom of all bills, regardless of where the referenced material is in the bill, and placed in a quote box

3. Amendments and Repeals
A. The standard format for an amendment will be to note which section of a law is being amended, and to quote only that part of the law
(1). Additions of words will be formatted in green text
(2). Subtractions of words will be formatted in red text with a strike-through
B. The Chair will not put to vote an amendment that copies an entire law, when only individual parts of the law are being amended
C. If a legislator moves to repeal only specific sections of a law, then the amendment procedure must be used
D. If a legislator moves to repeal an entire law, the Chair will quote the entire law and note that the entirety of it will be repealed.

4. General Rules
A. Sections should be written in such a way to reduce wordiness without losing the spirit of the text
B. All titled sections should be followed by a line break before starting a new section

5. For the purpose of this Act, the Chair of Assembly will bring all previously written laws into the standards outlined by this Act

Addendum 1 – Example of an Amendment

Amendment to Article IV, Section 7 Wrote:7. The Local Council representative will have the power to cast have an additional weighted block vote worth of one-fifth 20% of all non-abstaining votes cast on bills, not including the block vote, giving them a one-sixth share of the total vote, excluding abstentions. The Chair will calculate how many votes are allotted to the representative at the close of each vote, rounding them to the nearest whole number, and will then add the representative’s total votes to the final tally.

 

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5:19PM, 3/25/12
Hileville - LR and Rebel-topia are going to break the forum. 103 posts between the two of them so far today
LadyRebels - Yes we are implementing our evil plan to take over, just wanted ya'll to know that

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[1:22 PM] Rebeltopia: *beats up the Polandar Bear*
[1:22 PM] Polandar Bear: :dizzy_face:
[1:23 PM] Polandar Bear: I'm endangered!
[1:23 PM] Rebeltopia: Endangered of being beated up!
[1:23 PM] Polander Bear: "Beated up" - Rebeltopia, 2018

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[6:09 PM] Seraph: Who knew ORCS could be so informative?
[6:10 PM] Nakari: ORCS is truly ORChestral to our understanding of law.
[6:11 PM] Seraph: It's the ORCSue of all our legal knowledge.
[6:11 PM] Nakari: its magical. must have been created with sORCSery.

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Nakarisaurus: islands are you just jealous of the boots
Roavin: islands is jealous of the entire package
Satan: ^ this
Islands of Unakarity: Im jealous of the wife, and that mora election a while back
Roavin: punnuendo both intended and not intended