The Imperial Dominion of the South's Legislature

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Thank you Mr. Speaker. This bill is designed to ensure that emergency services have time to react to and contain oil spills through mandating that all future oil and gas drilling occurs at least 10.5 Admiralty Nautical Miles from the mean low tide mark, meaning that in the event of an oil spill, there is at least 10.5 ANM that the oil will have to travel before hitting shore, thus allowing emergency services to take action before oil hits our shorelines, where it is much more difficult to remove and thus negatively impacts the tourism industry much more than simply being in the water. It will also allow military training/weapons testing to continue unhindered by the presence of obstacles. That is the bill.

[Donerail]

No issues with it.

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Sad to see you go, Yel.

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Course, every cloud has a silver lining. I'm back in the Legislature!

[Donerail]

I oppose the linking requirement, mainly because I'm not sure how to do that.

[Donerail]

Forum awareness and advertising are crucial to our region's success, considering how inactive it is currently. From what I gather, we've rebounded quite a bit in recent months but the initial problem with inactivity is still apparent. We're slightly more active than the Midwest but when you consider the difference in legislatures, we would probably be even less active than the Midwest if we too had a universal legislature. Honestly, how do the Imperialists expect to take over anything with 10 people?

You forgot the Pacific, which has done in the last several weeks what professionals refer to as 'jack sh*t'

Seriously, though, I support this bill now that I know how to comply with it; there's no enforcement mechanism anyhow.

[Donerail]

Maybe if we changed the "72 hours after" to "prior to"?

[Donerail]

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That should change it enough to comply with the Court's ruling. Privately exchanged, previously existing, etc.

[Donerail]

     I would like to thank Jbrase for his work in defending the laws of the region against federal aggression. I take it SJoyceFla is volunteering to defend the region this time?

Optimist: There should be no need to do that, as two of the things the court had an issue with (it not existing beforehand and it being publicly exchanged) are now absent.

Pessimist: I guess so. It may be modified enough to fit the ruling.

[Donerail]

One more thing...

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[Donerail]

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^As a concerned citizen, I would suggest the following ammendment just for clarity's sake.

This bill will be an important step forward for all IDS residents wishing to trade in decorative stamped metals. I urge everyone to support it.

Amended!

[Donerail]

Aye

[Donerail]

I'd rather that flag be the Emperor's Standard. Don't want citizens to buy a new flag every time we get a new one.

[Donerail]

I'd rather that flag be the Emperor's Standard. Don't want citizens to buy a new flag every time we get a new one.

they won't have to necessarily. Emperors can be in the same Imperial House. which is why the flag has the IHoJ coat of arms even though PiT is Emperor.

I guess that makes sense, since only you and PiT have been Emperors during the time of the Empire.

[Donerail]

If someone would like to be in charge of editing the flag as we make suggestions that would be nice

@PiT how about "Capere aquilonem" instead of Seize the day, it becomes "seize the north!"

Exinanite de damnareyankees?

[Donerail]

Just so y'all know, I'll be away for a few weeks at the finest university in the IDS (Duke), so Internet access may be sporadic (ie: on my phone during the hour and a half of free time given a day). I would say PM me if there's anything major, but I'm as likely to check here as I am my PM box, so I'll try to stick around, but if there's any reduction in activity, that's why.

[Donerail]

Sorry I haven't really been around.

Aye.

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I am almost entirely sure you will never see a non-custom license plate that has just "666" for that reason I am opposed.

When I was on vacation in TN I actually did (and it had three non-custom letters/numbers before it. We could amend it to have "unless requested by the person to whom the plate is being issued".

[Donerail]

Protecting Our Citizens From Satan Act of 2012
1. Neither the region nor any of its constituent states shall issue a license plate containing more than two instances of the number 6, unless requested by the individual obtaining the license plate

Excellent. Fully support.

[Donerail]

Aye.

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I actually wanted to hold this till its equivalent comes up in the Senate.

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     Hello.

Hi.

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Aye.

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Aye.

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Since state changes are frequent and easily made, I don't really understand the point of the amendment.

Just an idea I had kicking around in my head. In theory it should make people move to different states so that the population makes a bit more sense geographically speaking.

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Amendment to at-large but geographically diverse.