Ed Murphy wrote: > Couple of misspellings. Recommend replacing the whole thing with > something like: > > An officer SHALL fulfill the duties of eir office. However, if e > violates this requirement within one week after coming to hold > the office, then DISCHARGE is the only appropriate sentence in a > criminal case pertaining to that violation. > > e.g. if you inherit a one-off duty that's already three weeks overdue, > then you have one week before you can be dinged for your own failure > to perform it. Don't want that because then it's a violation of the office rule, not whatever the other rule is.
>> Each rule-backed office has an interest index, tracked by the >> IADoP. > > Are there any pros/cons to a contract-backed office having an II, > other than possibly aesthetics? Not if we amend Notes to restrict to rule-backed offices, I believe. >> Any player CAN, with N support, where N is at least the number of >> elections initiated by that player in that week, initiate an >> election for an elected office, provided that there is currently >> no ongoing election for that office. This defers to any rule >> allowing a player to initiate an election. > > The last sentence is covered by the next-to-last paragraph of Rule 1728, > but the "provided" clause should probably have a precedence clause. > >> 1) The valid options (hereafter the candidates) are PRESENT (syn. >> WITHHOLD or ABSTAIN) and the active players who, during the >> election, > > "hereafter the candidates" should be after PRESENT. (I had the same > issue in the first version of my "allow PRESENT in elections to help > them meet quorum" proposal.) Oh yeah, I think I cut the word candidate altogether elsewhere. >> When an elected office's holder is something other than an active >> player, the IADoP CAN and SHALL initiate an election for that >> office. This obligation is fulfilled if, for any reason, there >> comes to be an ongoing election for that office or the office' >> holder becomes an active player. > > Time limit? (I think we had a rule several years ago defining all time > limits as ASAP if not otherwise explicitly defined.) Good catch.
