Proposal 415

Action

Amends 368

Title

Vacant Offices

Rule

If an Office is created and the rules do not specify a Player who initially holds that Office, or if at any time an Office becomes vacant, or if any Office is vacant upon passage of this amendment, then a Player shall be randomly selected for that Office.

Whenever the rules call for a Player to be randomly selected for an Office then the following events shall occur, in order:

The Speaker shall, as soon as possible, send a message to the Public Forum announcing the vacancy and requesting volunteers for the Office. Any player may volunteer for the Office by sending a message to that effect to the Public Forum within 72 hours.
The Speaker shall, as soon as possible but not less than 72 hours after announcing the vacancy, randomly choose a Player from among all volunteers, or, if there are no volunteers, from among all Active Players, and send a message to the Public Forum offering that Player appointment to the Office.
If the chosen player volunteered for the Office, e shall have consented to be appointed to that Office. Otherwise, the chosen Player may, within 72 hours of this message, send a reply to the Public Forum consenting to or refusing appointment to the Office. If e fails to send such a reply within 72 hours, e shall have refused appointment.
If the chosen player consents to the appointment, e shall immediately be appointed to the Office in question. If the chosen player refuses appointment, then e shall lose 3 points, and the Speaker shall repeat the selection process from step 2.

Comments

Motivation: 368 is pretty much ineffectual at the moment. We should either fix it or repeal it. I'm also getting a little annoyed that we keep defining Offices but never filling them.

I've made several changes since the original proto-proposal:

Speaker must ask for volunteers first.
Volunteers are given preference.
Removed penalty for resigning within 14 days. This was included for historical compatibility, but not something of which I was particularly fond.
Changed the recursion to an iteration.

Proposer

Jim Shea

Date

submitted Sat, 18 Jun 94 11:54:08 CDT

distributed Mon Jun 20 PDT

Voting record

Michael		: FOR
Malcolm		: FOR
Ronald		: FOR
Bill		: FOR
Jim		: FOR

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