CDSL 13-10, Citizenship Bill, attempted to define more precisely the link between citizenship and land established as a fundamental principle in the Constitution of the Confederation of Democratic Simulators (CDS) in its Article VI – Citizenship. It tried to establish guidelines on how to incorporate the citizenship grant made to citizens who used previous laws to become citizens without a direct relationship with land ownership.
However, in subsequent events, it was made clear that the extraordinary amount of legislation covering all possible cases for citizenship complicated the establishment of an official List of Citizens as per the requirements of NL 5-15, Citizen Information Act. As a result, this list is rarely updated and requires individual validation of each and every member on the list.
Therefore, this bill provides a new and easier method to validate citizenship by keeping to the guidelines set forth in the Constitution.
1. Granting title to land” is defined as being listed as the individual owner of a parcel of land, or as being a CDS-registered owner of group-deeded land, as shown in the About Land tool (or whatever technological feature of the official Second Life Viewer shows the ownership of a parcel).
2. Citizens shall be entitled to run for an office in CDS elections and/or vote if, on the date set by the Scientific Council in accordance with the Constitution for this purpose, they own at least one parcel of land and are current in their tier payments for at least this parcel. In cases where the parcel owner is a group, each group registered citizen must be listed as the tier payor and current in tier payment for at least one qualifying group-owned parcel. A citizen shall be an individual avatar whose name appears on both the Casper list as being current in tier payments and either 1) on a list of current individual parcel owners or 2) a CDS-registered owner of group deeded land.
3. Private land can optionally be deeded to any group, but that does not automatically entitle any member of the group to the title of the land. “Granting title to land” requires a separate CDS group registration process. Mistakenly deeded land should be reverted, optionally with the assistance from an Estate Manager or any similar role with the appropriate land management powers.
4. Public land, or land owned by organizations incorporated in the CDS, can be deeded to a group. This does not grant members of the group any title to the land.
5. Citizenship derived solely through membership of a group or through being the partner of a CDS citizen is hereby abolished.
6. Membership in any “waiting list” for the acquisition of a parcel in CDS does not confer citizenship status to those members.
7. CDS Group Registration Process
A citizen in good standing may apply for group citizenship. The application is to be directed to the Chancellor via notecard with a copy to the Dean.
The application for group citizenship must contain: citizen applicant’s login name, login names of any proposed group citizens and their group administrator status, group name and group key, parcel tierbox name and parcel ID to be deeded to the group, and the login name of the individual tierbox tenant to be set for each parcel.
Each individual group citizen must be the tenant for at least one tierbox, no more than one individual may be a tierbox tenant, and a maximum number of five (5) group citizens are allowed per group.
Prim parcels and their tierboxes are locked to ensure that they are properly regulated; they are reserved to supplement the prims of small parcels. Ownership of a prim parcel does not qualify for citizenship, whether individually or through a group.
Designated group administrators named in the application will be authorized to request CDS Estate Managers to take action on any group-owned parcel, not only those with a tierbox in their individual name.
The Chancellor will make a public post of the application to the Forum for a 7-day period to allow for public comment. Challenges to any application must state a valid cause to be considered and shall be directed to the Dean via notecard who will adjudicate any such challenge. If no valid challenges are received after the seven day period, the Chancellor will approve the application without delay. Successful challenges will be reported by the Dean and result in application denial.
Any change to the CDS-Registered owners of group land, including adding or removing members, will require a new application. A group citizen must be current in tier for at least one group tierbox in their name to maintain their good standing and CDS citizenship.
CDS Estate Banned avatars and their alts have no right to citizenship under any circumstances.
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Passed 17 March 2012
Updated and amended by the 32nd RA, March 2020