Pursuant to the discussions in the Front Gate, and accentuated by the point of order in the election, I have drafted a change to the rules of the Landsraad that specifies who is a member of the Landsraad, and how membership is gained, transferred and lost.
Be it resolved by the Landsraad, as follows:
- Section 1 of the Procedures of the Landsraad is amended to read as in the schedule to this resolution.
- Confirmed that the members of the Landsraad are, as of the adoption of the Resolution:
- Agha Mahmood Sadri Sahib
- Ari, Lord Furniture
- Armin Jamal-Arminzadeh, Count of Suthergold
- Hartmut Aldric, Count of Elsyran
- Kizzy Drakland, Queen of Malarboria, Princess of Shireroth
- Liv Dravot, The Imperial Mother
- Lord Michael Verion
- Mira Octavius-Aryani, Count-Palatine of Kezan
- Rei Miłarna, Princess of Shireroth
- Ryker Everstone, King of Goldshire, Prince of Shireroth
- Vilhelm Benkern, Count of Mar Sara
Schedule
- By being a member of the Landsraad, the member owns zir own seat in the Landsraad (“the seat”). A member is titled, if a man, Lord Elector of the Imperial Republic, or, if a woman, Lady Elector of the Imperial Republic.
- A member can only be seperated from zir seat by death, gifting the seat to another citizen, or by loss of citizenship.
- Upon the death of a member, zir seat is transferred to zir legitimate issue, with preference to the older and their descendants over the younger and their descendants, not counting any non-citizens, unless a last will and testament should provide that some other citizen should inherit the seat.
- A member may by communicating to the Prætor appoint a representative for a given time for zir seat. The representative shall have, for the duration of zir representation, the full rights associated to that seat.
- The Kaiser shall appoint a representative for any child under the age of 15 who may own a seat. No child under the age of 15 may take part in the deliberations of the Landsraad.
- The owner decides zir seat’s name.
- Upon loss of citizenship of a member, zir seat is destroyed.
- The Prætor shall record the seat and zir owner, and any transactions made to that seat, as well as any representatives for that seat.
- Should any person at any given point in time own more than one seats, zir seats shall permanently merge to become one seat.
- The Kaiser may, on the advice of the Imperial Advisory Council, create and grant a seat for a citizen of the Imperial Republic.