As announced and partly based on Tan's draft, here comes finally my proposal. I beg your pardon in advance for my not-so-skilled legal English.
LAND USE COMMISSION ACT (Almut's Draft)
§1 Motivation and Purpose
(A) The Confederation of Democratic Simulators (CDS) strives to let participating their citizens actively on proposing, discussing, deciding and implementing the three-dimensional environment and all its directly related topics and items which make up the geography of the CDS territories. This may also comprise the control of environmental conditions like regional windlight settings, seasonal changes and other phenomenons, so far these are controllable by Second Life residents with the respective permissions.
(B) As the elected body for this aim, the Representative Assembly (RA), in accord with its constitutionally mandated service role to “perform long term planning,” shall establish a permanent commission as a means to advise, to prepare, to record and to supervise their approved projects in respect on the CDS land use. This commission shall be called the Land Use Commission (LUC).
(C) The LUC is an executive organ of the citizenship of the CDS under direct supervision and control of the RA for the purposes outlined in (B). Its powers and permissions are directly tied to public discussions in the CDS Discussion Forums and to the votes of the RA. The LUC shall be responsive to demands from the RA, but may set its own agenda.
(D) Furthermore, the LUC is obliged to collaborate closely with the Chancellor in an advisory role. This way, the LUC shall assist the Chancellor in fulfilling his/her constitutional tasks in respect on land use.
(E) Referring to (B), the LUC shall work out and recommend concepts of region development and usage both on public and private land, to keep the covenants up to date and introduce new, more effective technologies as they become available. The LUC may inspect public and private land to find problematic locations that need improvement and to help saving land impact.
(F) Another obligation of the LUC shall be to create and to maintain suitable means which ease the RA and the Citizenship to gain a sufficient database for discussions and decisions. This comprises, but is not limited to, the creation of pictures, drawings, maps and inworld videos (machinimas) for documentation purposes.
(G) Though the long-time experience has shown that the commissoned creators of public projects are often LUC members, the LUC as such must not serve as the actual building contractor in order to prevent conflicts of interest.
§2 Membership, Structure and Roles
(A) The LUC shall be re-established at the beginning of every election term. The LUC term in office shall be bound on the CDS election period and shall end automatically as soon as a newly elected RA has gathered for the first time.
(B) The LUC shall be composed of six members, preferably design experts of various fields of activity, and further interested citizens in order to encompass a variety of viewpoints and approaches to the discussed matters. Such members are to be nominated:
1. Two citizens by the CDS Artisans Guild,
2. one citizen by the RA from its membership appointed by the RA by simple majority,
3. one citizen from the Executive Branch appointed by the Chancellor and
4. two citizens appointed by RA members from the Citizenry-at-large via a simple majority vote by the RA.
(C) The LUC shall elect the LUC Councilor as chairperson, the LUC Deputy Councilor as pro tempore and the LUC Secretary. The regulation regarding their term in office shall apply as defined in (A).
(D) The LUC shall follow democratic modes of decision making as usual at any RA committee. Though meetings are public in general and citizens are welcome to attend at any time, only LUC members have the right to vote. In the case of an equality of votes, the LUC Councilor's vote is the decisive one.
(E) It is the obligation of the LUC Councilor or - in the case of absence of the LUC Councilor - of the LUC Deputy Councilor to set up the agenda for the LUC meetings, to invite the LUC members and all interested citizens to meetings and other activities of the LUC, to moderate the meetings and to represent the LUC in the CDS public.
(F) It is the obligation of the LUC Secretary to publish the meeting transcripts and keep the Minutes of Meeting in the LUC Forum. Minutes of all meetings shall be accepted at the following regular meeting, and be published with the transcript of that regular meeting.
(G) It is the obligation of the RA LUC Delegate to report the RA at any meeting about the ongoing work of the LUC.
(H) A LUC member may resign or be removed from office at the discretion of the RA upon the recommendation of their nominator. This resulting vacancy, or the vacancies due to end-of-term, shall be filled according to the legislated process, the new member(s) assuming the term of the member(s) replaced.
§ 3 Meetings
(A) Meetings of the Commission shall be held at published times, at a frequency dependent on the demands of its mandate, but not less than once per month.
(B) The LUC is expected to welcome all interested citizen at their meetings and be open to their suggestions and concerns.
§ 4 Public Information and Discourse Policy
(A) Permanent changes to public land, outside of the seasonal tree and ground texture changes and official CDS temporary structures for events, have to be announced in the CDS Forum and allow a sufficient comment period to make sure the interests and concerns of all interested citizens can be taken into account by the RA. Public spaces have to be developed in accordance with policy and changes need to be subject to public comment and review.
(B) The duration of comment periods in the CDS Forums needs to be decided by the RA. It may differ in dependency from the nature of task, but it needs to be defined in a separate law.
(C) The regulations of the LUC Act regarding transparent region development guidelines must not be in contradiction to other laws.