"CDSL 16-03 Citizenship Establishment Act", https://cdsdemocracy.org/faqs/cdsl-16-0 ... hment-act/
The intention of changes to CDSL 16-03 is to allow certain group registered members to be citizens, subject to qualifying criteria.
Affected sections of CDSL 16-03 are:
1. “Granting title to land” is henceforward defined as being listed as the sole proprietor of a parcel of land, as shown by the About Land tool (or whatever technological feature of the official Second Life Viewer shows the ownership of a parcel).
Propose to change to: "1. Granting title to land" is henceforward defined as being listed as the individual owner of a parcel of land, or as being a CDS-registered owner of group-deeded land, as shown in the About Land tool (or whatever technological feature of the official Second Life Viewer shows the ownership of a parcel).
2. Citizens shall be entitled to vote in CDS elections and/or stand for office if, on the date set by the Scientific Council in accordance with the Constitution for this purpose, they own at least one parcel of land and are current in their tier payments for at least one parcel. A citizen shall be an individual avatar whose name appears on both the Hippo list as being current in the tier payments and on a list of current parcel owners.
Proposed changes: Replace "Hippo" with "Casper". Insert language allowing certain members of group-owned land to qualify to be citizens and to vote. " 2. Citizens shall be entitled to vote in CDS elections and/or stand for office if, on the date set by the Scientific Council in accordance with the Constitution for this purpose, they own at least one parcel of land and are current in their tier payments for at least one parcel. In cases where the parcel owner is a group, each group registered citizen must be listed as the tier payor and current in tier payment for at least one qualifying group-owned parcel. A citizen shall be an individual avatar whose name appears on both the Casper list as being current in tier payments and either 1) on a list of current individual parcel owners or 2) a CDS-registered owner of group deeded land."
3. Private land can optionally be set (but not deeded) to any group, but that does not entitle any member of the group a grant to the title of the land. Mistakenly deeded land should be reverted, optionally with the assistance from the Estate Owner or any similar role with the appropriate land management powers.
Proposed change: Allow land to be deeded but not automatically confer citizenship. "3. Private land can optionally be set or deeded to any group, but that does not automatically entitle any member of the group to the title of the land. "Granting title to land" requires a separate CDS group registration process. Mistakenly deeded land should be reverted, optionally with the assistance from the Estate Owner or any similar role with the appropriate land management powers."
4. Public land, or land owned by organisations incorporated in the CDS, can be deeded to a group. As per the previous article, this does not grant members of the group any title to the land.
Proposed change: Remove reference to Section 3. Public lands shall not qualify members for citizenship. "4. Public land, or land owned by organisations incorporated in the CDS, can be deeded to a group. This does not grant members of the group any title to the land."
5. “Sponsored locations” in the terms previously defined under CDSL 13-10 are abolished. Land set or deeded to groups under the provision of CDSL 13-10 will revert to public land status and claimed by the appropriate land management group set by Government for the region.
Proposed change: Remove this section as archaic. CDSL 13-10 has itself been reclassified as archaic.
6. Citizenship derived solely through membership of a group or through being the partner of a CDS citizen is hereby abolished.
No proposed changes. Citizenship derived solely through membership in a group or relationship remains impermissible. Changes to CDSL 16-03 create a new formal process of CDS group registration to allow certain members of group-owned land to qualify.
7. Membership in any “waiting list” for acquisition of a first parcel in the CDS, to be sold by Government as soon as new regions or parcels are opened for sale, does not confer citizenship status to those members, since it does not effectively confer grant title to land.
Proposed change: Remove this section as archaic. Sufficient quantities of land are for sale in CDS.
8. Any citizen that loses their citizenship status due to the passage of this bill is encouraged to purchase a parcel of land in the CDS.
Proposed change: Remove this section as archaic. Any citizen that lost their status since this bill was passed in 2012 has had sufficient time to purchase a parcel of land in CDS.
Insert new section, detailing the CDS Group Registration process.
Updated CDSL 16-03:
1. Granting title to land" is henceforward defined as being listed as the individual owner of a parcel of land, or as being a CDS-registered owner of group-deeded land, as shown in the About Land tool (or whatever technological feature of the official Second Life Viewer shows the ownership of a parcel).
2. Citizens shall be entitled to vote in CDS elections and/or stand for office if, on the date set by the Scientific Council in accordance with the Constitution for this purpose, they own at least one parcel of land and are current in their tier payments for at least one parcel. In cases where the parcel owner is a group, each group registered citizen must be listed as the tier payor and current in tier payment for at least one qualifying group-owned parcel. A citizen shall be an individual avatar whose name appears on both the Casper list as being current in tier payments and either 1) on a list of current individual parcel owners or 2) a CDS-registered owner of group deeded land.
3. Private land can optionally be set or deeded to any group, but that does not automatically entitle any member of the group to the title of the land. "Granting title to land" requires a separate CDS group registration process. Mistakenly deeded land should be reverted, optionally with the assistance from the Estate Owner or any similar role with the appropriate land management powers.
4. Public land, or land owned by organisations incorporated in the CDS, can be deeded to a group. This does not grant members of the group any title to the land.
5. Citizenship derived solely through membership of a group or through being the partner of a CDS citizen is hereby abolished.
6. CDS Group Registration process. <Details forthcoming>