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Bill: Cultural Preservation Decentralisation Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberal Party of Ikradon
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: October 2364
Description[?]:
| To place the responsibility for cultural preservation efforts in the hands of those with the greatest familiarity and motivation for protection of cultural treasures, and to remove waste and bureaucracy in cultural preservation. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change National, cultural and historic sites and monuments.
Old value:: The state actively protects scenery, localities, cultural, and historical sites; it maintains an agency to preserve them untouched if public interest so requires.
Current: The state actively removes or modifies cultural and historical heritage which are considered "inappropriate", or if public interest so requires.
Proposed: The state encourages and funds private efforts towards the protection of cultural and historical heritage.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 02:48:13, February 24, 2007 CET | From | Iqembu Sokusebenzisana Yeningi | To | Debating the Cultural Preservation Decentralisation Act |
| Message | After careful consideration, MUP/PET opposes. To transfer these national treasures to private ownership opens the way to those who would demolish historically significant landscapes to build parking lots. At the very least the government should supervise the developent of these areas. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 148 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 265 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 145 |
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