Archive:WEB Act

**THE UNIVERSAL TRIUMVIRATE WEBSITE EXPROPRIATION AND BEGETTING (WEB) ACT**
 **12.8.13 | 12.8.13**
Major Executive Nathan Maine
Chief Ambassador Jackson Mearl, E. Stenbach

**A Law** to provide the Union with the tools to take over websites necessary for its efforts, secure them for posterity, and set rules for the establishment and formation of infrastructure and authority on new and adopted sites.

**Section 1: Triumvirate Presence**

“Presence on a site” shall be defined as the presence of Triumvirate government officials, workers, or other official members or employees of the Triumvirate government on a site. Having Triumvirate citizens without government ties visiting a site does not constitute Triumvirate presence on such site to any degree unless otherwise noted.
The following classifications of Triumvirate presence on a site exist to best clarify for the Triumvirate their authority and existence on a site.
**Absolute:** Absolute Triumvirate presence shall be defined as a site being owned by the Triumvirate
**Vibrant:** The Triumvirate does not own the site but is a significant and powerful part of the site’s community and holds some reasonable authority there.
**Limited:** The Triumvirate does not own the site but is a very minor part of the site’s community and holds little to no authority there.
**Challenged:** The Triumvirate either previously held absolute presence on the site but is being engaged on the site and has lost absolute management there, or is attempting to gain absolute presence on the site.
**Commercial:** The Triumvirate maintains a private sector connection to a site for commercial purposes, but may or may not have any authority on such site.
**Diplomatic:** The Triumvirate maintains only a diplomatic presence (such as on an ally’s site)
**None:** The Triumvirate holds no presence on the site.
**Section 1.1: Requirements of the Department of State**
The Department of State, with aide of the Major Executive, shall be required to keep advisories on sites where there is Triumvirate presence unless doing so would betray confidentiality or damage ongoing Triumvirate actions on such site.
**Section 2: Creation**

All websites to be created by the Triumvirate must be known by the Major Executive and Executive Branch (or Joint Command Council in the event such websites must be kept utmost confidential) and can only be created on the Major Executive’s authority or on the authority of the Executive Branch. The Major Executive or whomever the Executive Branch or Major Executive may so appoint shall have authority as to the creation and development of such sites.
**Section 3: Management**

After a site has been created or expropriated, and its ownership and management fall clearly to the Triumvirate, the Major Executive may delegate (unless otherwise noted) management responsibilities to others, most notably the Minor Executive and Department of State. Nonetheless, the Major Executive shall remain the foremost authority of such sites. The government of the Triumvirate may legislate, provide rules for, and otherwise dictate the use of and actions for any sites under Triumvirate authority.
**Section 4: Expropriation**

Expropriation of a site, defined as “the taking possession of, especially for the public use and holding by the government, thus divesting the title and rights of the previous owner”, shall require resolution via amendment to this section of this law explicitly naming the site to be targeted, a termination date or goal (if applicable), appropriate resources for the expropriation, methods and manners for expropriation, and other applicable rules for such.
The Major Executive shall oversee expropriation of a site unless otherwise noted or ordered not to by legitimate authority, and shall utilize the tools and powers of their office as they see fit for the expropriation.
The Major Executive shall have the power to not engage in an expropriation action, should they see fit, even if passed by resolution by the government of the Triumvirate. Thus effectively giving them authority to temporarily hold off any resolution for expropriation, but requiring that they receive governmental consent before engaging in expropriation unless previously authorized.
**Section 4.1: Assets for Expropriation**
The Major Executive may utilize assets of their office, the Joint Command Council, other assets designated to the intelligence and defense establishment of the Triumvirate, the office of Minor Executive, the Department of Intelligence, Department of State, and Department of Media to engage in expropriation of a site. As commander-in-chief, the Major Executive may command all such institutions reasonably to engage in expropriation efforts.
**Section 4.2: Abandonment**
If a site has been expropriated and it has fallen to the command of the Triumvirate, it may only be abandoned should the Executive Branch declare so via law or via an obliteration order issued by the Major Executive (which, to note is not abandonment, but the destruction thereof)
**Section 4.2.1: Obliteration Order**
The Major Executive may, should the Triumvirate have expropriated and fully command a site, issue an obliteration order without consent from the Executive or Administrative Branches for situations where it is necessary to preserve the security of the central state. Such order shall put the site into a military state, commencing its full destruction, and the Major Executive may issue strict guidelines as to action and presence on the site.
The Executive Branch may override an obliteration order with a majority vote.
**Section 4.3: Unwarranted Expropriation**
The Major Executive may expropriate a site without permission via amendment to this law only if such expropriation is necessary for the security of the Triumvirate, constitutes a reasonable action for defense or aggression in the course of a war, is reasonable due to the conditions of a treaty, or to capture or take down an institution, group, asset, or individual that is reasonably dangerous to the Union.
**Section 4.4: Management After Expropriation**
After or during the expropriation of a site, the Major Executive may set policies and guidelines for such site, under military command of the Triumvirate, unless the Executive Branch decrees otherwise or the permission for expropriation denies or restricts that ability.
**Section 4.5: Subjects for Expropriation**
**Section 4.5.1: RuneScape Clans Wikia**
The Universal Triumvirate, under command of the Major Executive and the assets prescribed to them, shall have the authority to take command of the RuneScape Clans Wikia by the means available, putting the Major Executive in authority of the site, and allowing the Triumvirate to legislate and expand on its domain.
From the point the Triumvirate seizes authority, they shall keep authority and resources into management of the site, brand it as under the Union’s management, and fully employ the clan wiki into the Triumvirate’s protection.
**Section 5: Dissolving**

A site may only be dissolved on permission from the Executive and Administrative Branches, and the dissolving and destruction effort shall be carried out by the Major Executive and the resources devoted to them. This is excepting the dissolving and destruction made by an obliteration order which applies solely to expropriated sites.
**Section 6: Associated Provisions**

The following shall be adjusted in other laws to complement this law:
**Section 6.1: Deputy Head of Intelligence Approval**
The Deputy Head of Intelligence must be nominated by the Head of Intelligence and approved by the Executive Branch. [Adjusted within Intelligence Code]
**Section 6.2: Defunding**
The Chief Historian shall be defunded, receiving no funding per trimester. [Adjusted within Historical Protection Act]
The Speaker of the Administration shall be defunded, receiving no funding per trimester. [Adjusted within Administrative Code]
The Department of Naturalization shall have 30 tri removed from its budget per trimester. [Adjusted within the 2013-II Economic Stimulus and Infrastructure Investment Act]
All financial assets possessed by the Government Security Agency at the time of this law's passage, shall be returned to the central government account.
**Section 6.3: Tax Decrease**
The institutional tax rate shall drop from 5% to 4%. [Adjusted within the Tax Code]
**Section 7: Effect Date**

This law shall, once passed, enter into full effect upon whichever of the following occurs first: a) two weeks from its passage; b) enactment by order of the Major Executive; or c) enactment by order of the Minor Executive and Chairman of the Joint Command Council.
Enacted by order of the Major Executive on September 12, 2013.