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Bill: A Property Owners Bill of Rights

Details

Submitted by[?]: Paranational League

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: October 2913

Description[?]:

Chief Sponsor Party Chairman Augustus Caesarius, of the Paranational League.


I.Preamble
Whereas we of the Paranational League do hereby object to the reserved right of the Hobrazian State to arbitrarily confiscate property do we hereby move to propose the following legislation;
Whereas the Paranational League does object to any type of central planning do we herein resolve to establish a system of local intiative to exclusivley adress the needs of individual localities; to set up a means of just compensation in cases of eminenet domain; give individual municipalities the right to plan and set policy in the building of vital infastructure;
therefore be it resolved to add Article I
Article 1
Whereas the directives of the current central planning system are inadequate to adress the needs of individual localities; Whereas eminent domain is determined irrespective of local zoning laws; and that by this current policy eminent domain threatens the rights of municipalities and allows for the construction of inadequate infastructure regardless of the needs of specific localities;
Be it resolved, that immediate restriction be applied to the state in the siezure of local lands; and for localities to employ their land in the ways that the municipal council deems adequate;
Be it further resolved that a system be established that allows the state to supersede, in the case of vital infrastructure, provided that they pay a fair market price;
Be it further resolved to add Article 2
2. Article 2
Whereas the neutrality of any body is subject to interpretation; and could be compromised in the future by coercion, opression and any assorted manpulation to lower the value of land siezed by the state; whereas were it is also reserved as the governments right to lower any value established by such body;
Be it resolved that the owner alone can place a price on any lands siezed by the central government; in keeping within no greater than a margin 10 percent of their original investment;
Be it resolved that the second party ( the state) be allowed to appeal any cost they consider to great; the state may place a price in terms of a civil suit against any owner attempting to defraud the state;
Be it further resolved that such an action by the property owner to artifically raise the price of their propertybe hereafter deemed tax fraud and either subject to a term of 5 years imprisonment, or a fine the amount ruled by the judge;
Be it further resolved that any price be paid in terms of intervals agreed to by both parties

Proposals

Debate

These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:

Date07:52:01, March 24, 2010 CET
FromNational Imperial Hobrazian Front
ToDebating the A Property Owners Bill of Rights
MessageSupport.

Date18:56:33, March 24, 2010 CET
FromWe Say So! Party
ToDebating the A Property Owners Bill of Rights
MessageAgainst.
Article 1 places increased difficulties in creating national projects, not least the construction of cross-country motorways and rail networks, whilst article 2 creates a ridiculous precedent of large scale projects being ground to a halt for individual want. Currently an independent body determines compensation, a body with no interest in either party. In this case it provides the fairest compensation for not only those individuals involved in receiving compensation but also the tax payer.

Date20:02:01, March 24, 2010 CET
FromHobrazian Imperium Party
ToDebating the A Property Owners Bill of Rights
Messageno

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