Emergency Urban Order Meeting (Day 4)

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Content	Emergency Urban Order Meeting (Day 4) badger badger Conde Jonatan Castell i Bover de Cerdanya exchange-heaven-for-earth Arete/Stars Apparently if you don't want your perfectly reasonable laws to be preempted by destructive radicalism the appropriate strategy is to meet before the Convention has even convened for the first floor session, but fortunately reasonable people are just as capable of doing that as destructive radicals. Jonatan tasks his servants with waiting outside the convention hall and inviting the members of the Urban Order committee to an emergency meeting. He has copies of yesterday's Badger sitting on the table, alongside copies of a draft of a law. This statute hereby repeals the publication statute of 9 Sarenrith, and replaces it with the following: There shall be established a Royal Censorship Board for the distribution of published works, to be staffed by men of good character who are approved by and serve at the pleasure of the Queen. The initial makeup of this board shall be established by the convention. The distribution, sale, purchase, or dissemination of any pamphlet, book, or other publication not thereby approved by the Royal Censorship Board is illegal. The Royal Censorship Board shall be tasked with ensuring that all materials published in Cheliax shall comply with the laws of Cheliax; that they shall not promote crime, violence, anarchism, or disorder; that they shall contain nothing obscene; that they shall not contain any grave offenses to morality; that they shall not promote false teachings about the gods nor promote the worship of any power of the Lower Planes, nor any other Evil power; and that they shall be moral, sensible, and prudent to publish. The censor's office shall promulgate a method of marking approved publications; any approved publication distributed without such markings is subject to not less than 7 days in prison and a ban on all further dissemination, publication, or sale for the criminal for 1 year. The dissemination of material not approved by the censors shall be punished by not less 1 year of hard labor 100 crowns in fines, with an extra year of labor for every 10 crowns unpaid, and the criminal may never again publish works. If an illegal publication incites readers to a crime, or is followed by crimes resulting in deaths or property damage in excess of 200 crowns, it is a capital offense. Purchasing or otherwise intentionally obtaining a publication banned under this decree shall be punished by not less than 40 lashes or 7 days in prison, and a fine of 5 silver per page purchased. The Crown and Convention may ban publications even if they have previously been approved by the censors. Lord Mayors and Nobles may apply additional restrictions to publications in those territories they rule but may not legalize works that are otherwise banned by the crown, convention, or Royal Censorship Bureau. Nothing in this decree shall prohibit the faithful copying of laws of this realm, nor official decrees, so long as they are copied in their entirety with no commentary. This decree does not make legal any publications banned under other decrees or statutes.
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Apparently if you don't want your perfectly reasonable laws to be preempted by destructive radicalism the appropriate strategy is to meet before the Convention has even convened for the first floor session, but fortunately reasonable people are just as capable of doing that as destructive radicals. Jonatan tasks his servants with waiting outside the convention hall and inviting the members of the Urban Order committee to an emergency meeting.

He has copies of yesterday's Badger sitting on the table, alongside copies of a draft of a law.

This statute hereby repeals the publication statute of 9 Sarenrith, and replaces it with the following:

There shall be established a Royal Censorship Board for the distribution of published works, to be staffed by men of good character who are approved by and serve at the pleasure of the Queen. The initial makeup of this board shall be established by the convention. The distribution, sale, purchase, or dissemination of any pamphlet, book, or other publication not thereby approved by the Royal Censorship Board is illegal. The Royal Censorship Board shall be tasked with ensuring that all materials published in Cheliax shall comply with the laws of Cheliax; that they shall not promote crime, violence, anarchism, or disorder; that they shall contain nothing obscene; that they shall not contain any grave offenses to morality; that they shall not promote false teachings about the gods nor promote the worship of any power of the Lower Planes, nor any other Evil power; and that they shall be moral, sensible, and prudent to publish.

The censor's office shall promulgate a method of marking approved publications; any approved publication distributed without such markings is subject to not less than 7 days in prison and a ban on all further dissemination, publication, or sale for the criminal for 1 year. The dissemination of material not approved by the censors shall be punished by not less 1 year of hard labor 100 crowns in fines, with an extra year of labor for every 10 crowns unpaid, and the criminal may never again publish works. If an illegal publication incites readers to a crime, or is followed by crimes resulting in deaths or property damage in excess of 200 crowns, it is a capital offense. Purchasing or otherwise intentionally obtaining a publication banned under this decree shall be punished by not less than 40 lashes or 7 days in prison, and a fine of 5 silver per page purchased.

The Crown and Convention may ban publications even if they have previously been approved by the censors. Lord Mayors and Nobles may apply additional restrictions to publications in those territories they rule but may not legalize works that are otherwise banned by the crown, convention, or Royal Censorship Bureau. Nothing in this decree shall prohibit the faithful copying of laws of this realm, nor official decrees, so long as they are copied in their entirety with no commentary. This decree does not make legal any publications banned under other decrees or statutes.