Councillors,

Enclosed you will find a revision of a lawbook which is being proposed by the Watch and Spellguard for official sanction as the official lawbook of Sanctuary. This proposal is current as of Kythorn 19, Year 151.

-Private Moonfall

Official Lawbook of the City of Sanctuary Proposed and current as of Kythorn 19th, Year 151

Punishments and Crime Levels Capital Crimes Exile: Exile from Sanctuary Proper, and any lands claimed by the Council before, during, and after the sentence Stoning: Public stoning in the Cage of Traitors by the citizens of Sanctuary

Serious Crimes Fine: All the gold that the person has, up to a limit of 1500 gold and/or magical items Imprisonment: 11 hours in jail ((45 minutes))

Minor Crimes Fine: All the gold that the person has, up to a limit of 500 gold and/or magical items Imprisonment: 4 hours in jail ((15 minutes))

Criminal Offences Capital Crimes

1. Endangerment of Sanctuary (Willing): Exile or Stoning
• (a) Possessing Illithid implants
• (b) Giving aid to known and unknown groups working against Sanctuary
• (c) Left at the descretion of the overseeing councillor

  2. Endangerment of Sanctuary (Accidental): Imprisonment, fines, and/or exile

• (a) Unwillingly or unknowingly delivering aid to enemies of Sanctuary
• (b) Unwillingly or unknowingly possessing Illithid implants
• (c) Left at the descretion of the overseeing councillor

  3. Murder of a Citizen of Sanctuary: Exile or Stoning

• Dealing the final blow on a citizen of sanctuary
• Attempted Murder of a citizen falls under these grounds (not valid unless deemed so by a councillor)

  4. Assisted Murder of a Citizen of Sanctuary: Exile or Stoning

• Aiding in the murder of a citizen of Sanctuary, this only applies when the person has been murdered
• (a) Using magical evocation, conjuration, or enhancement spells on the one who is doing the murdering
• (b) Using weapons or fists to aid in the death of a citizen, this applies from a single attack, even if does not damage the person or hit them.

  5. Sustained Criminal Behavior: Exile or Stoning

• Consistantly commiting crimes of serious nature or above

  6. Animation of the Dead: Exile or Stoning

• Using magical spells to animate the dead into undead monsters (does not include raise dead/ressurection spells)
• Using magics to gain control of animated monsters

  7. Impersonation of a Law Enforcement Officer

• (a) Impersonating a member of the Watch or Spellguard or Seekers either vocally, by wearing items of organization without permission, or both
• (b) Impersonating a member of the Council, or of another government organization without having been elected or assigned

Serious Crimes

1. Bribery: Imprisonment, fines, and/or invalidation (concerning the reason the bribery was taking place)
• Bribing anyone in any manner for any purpose is considered a crime

  2. Assualt on a Citizen of Sanctuary: Serious to Capital

• Serious - Capital
  • (a) Assualt using harmful magical spells: Imprisonment, fines, and/or exile
  • (b) Assualt using weapons or magical/enhanced gloves: Imprisonment, fines, and/or exile
• Serious
  • (a) Assualt using nonharmful magics: imprisonment and/or fines
  3. Extortion: Imprisonment, fine, loss of office
• Obtaining money or other valuables by abusing an office or authority

  4. Tresspassing: Imprisonment and/or fine

• Being on privately owned property when not invited to be on it.

Minor Crimes

1. Bearing Arms: Imprisonment and/or fine
• Bearing arms in the city of sanctuary without proper authority is a crime

  2. Theft: Imprisonment, fine, returning of items

• Stealing items of any sort is a crime

  3. Public Nuisance: Imprisonment and/or fine

• (a) Harassing and/or threatening members of the Spellguard, Seekers, Society, Council, Watch, noble houses, and other government positions
• (b) Slandering any of the aforementioned groups
• (c) Harassing and/or threatening groups of citizens or causing a public unruly scene

  4. Unauthorized Use of Magic

• (a) Using magic in an unwarded section without proper authority or permission
• (b) Using magic in a warded section without authority or permission (not including the arena)

  5. Failure to Comply

• Failure to obey an order given by a member of the Watch or Spellguard is a crime

  6. Obstruction of Justice

• The willing attempt to block the path of justice, or prevent justice from being served to a criminal

Trials and Sentencing All crimes commited which do not involve exile or stoning are to be judged by the highest ranking Spellguard or Watch member present when dealing with arrests. (I.E. A sergeant would overrule an agent, and an Operative a Private.)

All crimes which involve exile, stoning, or the Judgement of the Council are determined by members of the Council. A council member may sit in judgement of the case and propose a judgement. If another councilmember disagrees on the best judgement, a majority vote shall take place in the council regarding the judgement of the crime. Judges will be chosen randomly from the pool of available judges capable of judging the case.

You should leave law making to the elected officials. If you desire a law to be passed, feel free to present it individually. Modification of our laws is very difficult to put through the Council, and as it stands I find the odds of this passing at all extremely dubious.

I'm confident that some ideas here can be utilized by the Council, but as a full document it requires a great deal of work and I can not support it in full. Specific suggestions for legislation are more likely to find widespread support than broad rewritings of our entire legal code.

In Regards,

Sir Dungal Toboerski Grand Magistrate Toboerski Knights Councillor

I am leaving the law making to it. The lawbook is a book of suggested laws and proceedures, which the Council can edit or surpress as it sees fit to fully protect the city.

-Private Moonfall

As expected, several Councilors objected to the additon of an entirely new law book en totale. The preference is to go over individual suggestions for new laws, coupled with revisions of existing laws.

To help explain why this is necessary realize that the adoption of a revision to existing law will require the supporting vote of seven of the current eight Councilors. This book is the revision of many laws, and is not going to have that support as more than one Councilor has already objected and more are leaning in that direction with only a single Councilor in support of the book's full changes currently.

However, new laws--of which you propose several can be passed by a simple majority vote. It will be far easier for the Council to adopt these new laws on their own.

If we then consider the revisions seperately, this will allow the Council to weigh the merit of each individually and thereby give each greater chance of gaining the necessary seven votes to pass.

As the Watch presented this book to the Council, it is now the wish of the Councilors who agree that a revision of our laws is necessary that the Watch compile the individual proposals for new laws and the seperate proposals for revisions to the laws and present them individually to the Council. After we determine which proposals and revisions are necessary, we will make the necessary changes to the law book.

The Council can of course do the work of this matter itself, but it would certainly take us far longer and delay the debate on these matters for an unnecessarily long duration. Next time the Council is kind enough to tell you in advance that something will not go through, please be wise enough to listen to the advice given so you do not again waste the Council's time or your own. I told you three days ago this would not pass muster and what to do in order to help the cause.

In Regards,

Sir Dungal Toboerski Grand Magistrate of the Toboerski Knights Councilor

Councillors,

I write on the matter of the proposition of new laws to better enforce order in the city.

One of the most effective tools of the Watch in enforcing the law is its ability to interpret the laws themselves, do to their overall vagueness. Difficulties arise however when the law is interpreted very strictly, both by Watchmen and by Councillors presiding over trials. I have heard second hand that our current elastic clause of the Lawbook, that is 'Public Nuissance' which allows us to punish most minor infractions which cause a disturbance in the city, that it has been 'too long abused and misconstrued.' I believe it may be time to make some marginally more specific laws, while not altogether making the lawbook set in stone, so that any citizen with the patience to read it may become a scholar of loopholes-

Therefore I propose the following additions to the lawbook, things which I have seen an especial need for in the course of my duties.

Proposed Laws

1. Refusal to Cooperate with Law Enforcement Officials
   • Will cover the current Minor infraction of Refusal to Report for Questioning
   • Will cover refusal to obey reasonable requests by officers of the law
     • (such as refusal to stow weapons when asked)
   • Specifically, will cover citizens refusing to leave dangerous areas, either for their own safety, or because their presence may cause other issues
   Infractions under this law may be classified as Minor Crimes

2. Harassment
   • Covers threats of violence, theft, murder, etc.
   Infractions under the law of Harassment may be classified as Serious Crimes

3. Enslavement
   • (While deplorable, there currently is no official law against enslavement, and while heinous, a slaver could potentially be legally found innocent of crimes and allowed to walk free)
   • Enslavement may be defined as any unpaid, non-consensual act of service
   Infractions under the law of Enslavement may be classified as Capital Crimes

4. Major Crimes
   • Calls for a redefinition of crime sentences, currently the only sentences available are Minor, Serious, and Capital Crimes. This would provide for an additional sentence, entitled Major Crimes.
   • Current penalties are, respectively, 2 Hours, 8 Hours, Indefinite, terms of imprisonment. ((remember, 5 minutes per in game hour))
   • The redefinition would be as follows: Minor Crimes, 2 hours; Serious Crimes, 5 hours; Major Crimes, 8 Hours.
   • All laws currently defined as Serious Crimes would instead be redefined as Serious to Major infractions
   • All laws currently defined as Minor to Serious Crimes would instead be redefined as Minor to Major Crimes

Each potential law may be accepted, altered, or refused individually, and the three proposed laws should be reviewed individually for their merits.

Sergeant Durris Sanctuary Watch

Councillors,

Due to unfortunate events and the lack of expected aid from certain groups, it has taken some more time for me to compile the lawbook for you. Here are each "new" thing I want to go in to the lawbook.

Punishments and Crime Levels Capital Crimes Exile: Exile from Sanctuary Proper, and any lands claimed by the Council before, during, and after the sentence Stoning: Public stoning in the Cage of Traitors by the citizens of Sanctuary

Serious Crimes Fine: All the gold that the person has, up to a limit of 1500 gold and/or magical items Imprisonment: 11 hours in jail ((45 minutes))

Minor Crimes Fine: All the gold that the person has, up to a limit of 500 gold and/or magical items Imprisonment: 4 hours in jail ((15 minutes))\

Using this system, each crime would be defined as a capital, serious, or minor crime within the lawbook, as suggested by my previous draft. Each new crime would have to be a part of this organization system. It will help to make the duty of a watchmember easier, and to allow uniformal punishment for crimes.

Capital Additions

1. Assisted Murder of a Citizen of Sanctuary: Exile or Stoning
• Aiding in the murder of a citizen of Sanctuary, this only applies when the person has been murdered
• (a) Using magical evocation, conjuration, or enhancement spells on the one who is doing the murdering
• (b) Using weapons or fists to aid in the death of a citizen, this applies from a single attack, even if does not damage the person or hit them.

  2. Impersonation of a Law Enforcement Officer

• (a) Impersonating a member of the Watch or Spellguard or Seekers either vocally, by wearing items of organization without permission, or both
• (b) Impersonating a member of the Council, or of another government organization without having been elected or assigned

Serious Additions

1. Bribery: Imprisonment, fines, and/or invalidation (concerning the reason the bribery was taking place)
• Bribing anyone in any manner for any purpose is considered a crime

  2. Assualt on a Citizen of Sanctuary: Serious to Capital

• Serious - Capital
  • (a) Assualt using harmful magical spells, or with the intent to kill: Imprisonment, fines, and/or exile
  • (b) Assualt using weapons or magical/enhanced gloves: Imprisonment, fines, and/or exile
• Serious
  • (a) Assualt using nonharmful magics: imprisonment and/or fines

  3. Extortion: Imprisonment, fine, loss of office

• Obtaining money or other valuables by abusing an office or authority

Minor Additions

5. Failure to Comply
• Failure to obey an order given by a member of the Watch or Spellguard is a crime

  6. Obstruction of Justice

• The willing attempt to block the path of justice, or prevent justice from being served to a criminal

You'll note that there are two different types of "assualt" in the lawbook. I would like those removed, and the new definition for assualt be used uniformly for punishment. That is the only one that might "raise some confusion" within the Council, or what have you. The other laws are new laws.

-Private Moonfall

Councillors,

I understand that there are many other matters at hand, but I would like to know the status of these laws. Have they all been rejected? Have they been put aside until Sanctuary is in a more peaceful situation? These laws will allow the Watch to be much more effective at catching criminals and protecting Upper, as is our mandate.

-Sergeant Moonfall

Councillors,

I hate to bother you again, but a matter needs your immediate attention. With the split of Upper and Lower Sanctuary, which laws still apply to Upper, and to Lower? If someone is murdered in Lower, are they subject to the laws of Upper? If a resident of Upper kills a resident of Lower, are we to try them? Lower has turned into it's own city, and seems to be fundamentally different then Upper.

-Sergeant Moonfall

[the letters are resent]

-A letter is sent to the Watch

Dear members of the Watch,

until the council has finalized it's decisions concerning the situation in Lower Sanctuary, it is imperative to remember that in our minds, Lower Sanctuary is still part of the whole. Although it is neither requested nor recommended that the watch enter the Lower quarter at this time, then you must keep in mind that any crimes committed within the Lower quarter are indeed crimes that require our attention (if brought to our attention).

I know I can trust you all to figure out a way to assure that the Watch will be able to continue keeping the whole of Sanctuary safe. If you have any suggestions you wish the Council to concider, them by all means forward them to me post haste. We are currently labouring immensely hard to come up with ways to satisfy all our citizens, without leaving our dear home in danger.

Continue the good work, if it was not for men and women such as yourselves, we would have been overrun by horrendous beasts years ago.

You have my gratitude.

- Councillor Demetrius Bhast