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[[Category:Legislation]] [[Category:Amendment]]
=Penalties and Tickets Act=
An Act to include more offences under the Tickets system.

==Article 1: Tickets==
§1. The [[Criminal Code 2020]] is amended by:
:§1.1. Inserting a new Article 8 in Part 2, which shall read:
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== Article 8: Tickets ==
§1. Any criminal offense may be summarily punished with a Ticket, which provides for the muting of any person for no more than 48 hours on the first offense, and up to 96 hours for subsequent offences under the same Article;
: Provided that –
: A. Tickets may be issued by any law enforcement officer;
: B. Tickets may be refused by the person it is issued to, in which case the person must be unmuted;
: C. No charges may be brought against a person whom a ticket is issued to, unless the person refuses the ticket;
: D. No tickets may be issued more than 3 days after the commission of an Offense; and,
: E. No tickets may be issued for offences specified in the First and Second Schedule.”
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:§1.2. Deleting §5. and §6. from Article 15a.;

:§1.3. Creating a new §5. in Article 15a, which shall read:
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§5. Any competent authority may summarily eject or ban alleged unlawfully used alternate accounts from the SimDem Discord Server.
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:§1.4. Deleting §3. and §4. from Article 30;
:§1.5. Deleting §5. and §6. from Article 31;
:§1.6. Deleting §4. and §5. from Article 46a;
:§1.7. Deleting §3. and §4. from Article 50 and 50a;
:§1.8. Deleting §3. and §4. from Article 51; 
:§1.9. Increasing the number of each article after the new Article 8 by 1, until the article titled “Article 39. Incumbent Election Interference” has been renumbered as “Article 40. Incumbent Election Interference”; 
:§1.10. Creating a First Schedule which shall read:
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*Inchoate Offences;
*Article 52a Doxxing;
*Article 52b Threats to Dox;
*Article 53 §1. First Degree Harassment;
*Article 54 Sexual Harassment;
*Article 55 Failure to Report Sexual Harassment;
*Article 59 Blackmail; and,
*Article 60 Abuse of Vulnerability;
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:and,
::§1.10.1. Creating a Second Schedule which shall read: 
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*Offences under Part 6 of the Act except for Article 22 Making a Frivolous Claim;
*Offences under Part 8 Crimes Against Public Interest;
*Offences under Part 9 Electoral Crimes; and,
*All articles under Part 10 Crimes Against the State with the exception of Article 50 Spamming and Brigading and Article 50a Voice Chat Disruption.
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:§1.11. Creating a new §6. in Article 6, which shall read:
: “§6. Where an Article supplies a minimum punishment, a Judge shall have discretion to impose up to half of the minimum sentence as a suspended sentence, unless the Article is listed in the First Schedule.
: §6.1. No person shall serve a suspended sentence unless a finding of Probable Cause has been made against them for crimes committed up to 3 months after the person is sentenced, at which point they shall immediately serve the suspended sentence.”;
:and,
:§1.12. Substituting the words “in Articles 40 or 52” with “in Article 52” in Article 34. 

§2. The [[Executive Act 2023|Executive Act]] is amended by –
:§2.1 Deleting §5. and its subsection.

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Authored by hmquestionable

Passed by the Senate on 19 March 2025

Signed by the President on 19 March 2025