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Bill: Pet Ownership Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Conservative-Libertarian Party (UM)
Status[?]: passed
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: April 2884
Description[?]:
| This Act will allow families to own pets without informing local governments. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding the ownership of domestic animals as pets.
Old value:: People must register domestic animals with the local government.
Current: People must register domestic animals with the local government.
Proposed: There are no laws regarding domestic animal ownership.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:02:29, January 24, 2010 CET | From |  Conservative-Libertarian Party (UM) | To | Debating the Pet Ownership Act |
| Message | The Prime Minister: Mr Speaker, recently one of my constituents bought a goldfish and innocently forgot to inform his local authority. He was fined a gross amount. Mr Speaker, is it right that families should have to inform their local councils simply because they have decided to own a pet? Mr Speaker, government intrusion into our citizens' lives must stop. |
| Date | 20:31:58, January 24, 2010 CET | From | House Lusk-Nat'l Syndicalist Party (UM) | To | Debating the Pet Ownership Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, the pet-licencing program is a vital source of revenue for local councils. Furthermore, pets— of all kinds— have been shown to have deleterious ecological effect. |
| Date | 20:38:18, January 24, 2010 CET | From | Conservative-Libertarian Party (UM) | To | Debating the Pet Ownership Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, the claims of the NSP is an affront to the millions of individuals who own pets of some kind. To argue it is detrimental to the environment, many households will find absurd. Mr Speaker, is it also the case that we should put government revenue above civil liberties, for that is what it seems the NSP is arguing. |
| Date | 23:27:17, January 24, 2010 CET | From | House Lusk-Nat'l Syndicalist Party (UM) | To | Debating the Pet Ownership Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, regardless of what the common citizen finds absurd, the ecological impact of especially cats is hard to deny. We, equally, find it is absurd that pet ownership now rises to the level of a "civil liberty." |
| Date | 02:50:05, January 25, 2010 CET | From | Union of Radical Republicans (UM) | To | Debating the Pet Ownership Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, we find ourselves in agreement with the NSP's ecological concerns. Furthermore, registration of domesticated animals - be they commercial yak or adorable guide puppy - by council is crucial for proper response to health crises. From a national level - certainly, we all remember the heifer louse epidemics that made beds across rural Telamon un-sleep-in-able two years ago - to a personal one - like ensuring a captured escaped hound has her shots and is of no harm to animal control workers - this is a key part of diagnosis and treatment. This is a matter for a reprimand and a waiver, not an abolition of all records regarding all domesticated animals. |
| Date | 02:51:24, January 25, 2010 CET | From | Union of Radical Republicans (UM) | To | Debating the Pet Ownership Act |
| Message | er, Mr. Speaker, to correct my otherwise well-spoken colleague from the east - those were in Davostan. |
| Date | 11:05:45, January 25, 2010 CET | From | Conservative-Libertarian Party (UM) | To | Debating the Pet Ownership Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, quite what commercial yaks and heifer lice have to do with this bill is beyond us. Perhaps the URR are suffering from a severe case of foot and mouth...[laughter from the backbenches] |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 205 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 186 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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