spoon-business: Proposal Revision: The Bank

[Dan Waldron <wald7330@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The following is the first revision of my proposal 347

[[This is a major revision.  I have essentially rewritten the whole thing
here and added in a lot of stuff, including rules for dealing with
debtors, ways for the Banker to act on behalf of the bank, Motions
submittable by any agent that can require (and allow) the bank to take a
wide variety of actions.]]


Enact a rule entitled "The Bank" with text as follows:

The Bank is an agent, but not an eligible voter.

If a debt owed the Bank is overdue the Bank may submit a Motion for
Repayment of that debt, at the discretion of the Banker.

A Bank Motion is a motion that, once submitted, becomes a Ballot Item on
the next nweekly voting.  A Bank Motion should describe one or more
actions to be performed by the Bank.  If it passes, a Motive Order is
issued for the Bank to perform those actions.
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Enact a rule entitled "The Banker" with text as follows:

The Office of The Banker is an elective office.  It is the responsibility
of the Banker to post actions to the public forum for the Bank.  There are
some decisions that must be made and some actions that must be performed
by the bank.  This office acts as the decision-making and
action-performing part of the Bank.

If a CFJ finds that the Banker has not allowed the Bank to perform its
required duties within a reasonable length of time e is expelled from the
office and fined fifty points.

It is up to the Banker to decide what actions the Bank will take, and post
those actions to the public forum.  Eir nweekly report should include a
summary of all actions taken by the Bank in that nweek, and also a list of
the scores of each player and all debts owed by or owed to the bank.

The Banker may always cause the Bank to perform an action in an
Administrative, Motive, or Legistative Order, provided that it is a legal
action for the Bank. The Banker may also cause the bank to repay any debt
that it owes.  If another action is to be performed, the Banker must act
on behalf of the bank, and although the action is performed as if acted by
the bank, it cannot affect items owned by the bank or enter the bank into
any debts, or be any other effect not normally allowed by the action an
independant agent.

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Enact a new rule titled "Points Owed"

If an agent owes points, e is considered a debtor.  The agent to which
those points are owed is eir creditor.  If e does not pay those points
which e owes within whatever time is agreed upon in advance by those
parties, or two nweeks otherwise, the debt becomes overdue and eir
creditor may submit a Motion for Repayment for that particular debt.

A Motion for Repayment that is submitted becomes a ballot issue at the
start of the next nweekly voting.  If it passes then a Motive Order is
issued for the repayment of the debt, to be performed as soon as possible.

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Poulenc.