Legal System (CreepySins)

A legal system is the system in which a foundation creates and enforces their rules. In CreepySins SCPF, the legislative authority is mainly seated with the O5 Council. Executive authority mainly resides with the Ethics Committee and Internal Security Department.

Legislation

The foundation has four legislative offices, two of which are not active by default. The O5 Council is the primary legislative body, issuing motions and voting on them directly. Motions require a simple majority to pass, and are then directly ratified into law. The O5 Council may not issue motions affecting executive orders, or legislature pertaining to executive orders.

The Board of Directors is a body composed of all personnel holding the director position in a department. While the Board of Directors may not issue motions directly, they may propose motions to the O5 Council by internal majority vote. The O5 Council is legally obliged to hear, discuss, and vote on proposals on the Board of Directors.

The Office of the Administrator and the Office of the Overseer Council each hold the ability to issue Executive Orders. Executive Orders are pieces of legislature used to issue a specific action, or to create, amend or repent laws. Executive Orders are recorded on the Legislative Records Database. They are taken into effect through signature of the issuing office holder, and are active until repented by one of the two authorised offices. Examples of Executive Orders include legislation to bar Executives from being part of a hostile GOI, orders to create select committees to discuss possible projects, the creation or deletion of new offices, as well as amnesties.

Legislative Classes

The foundation has three legislative documents. The foundation framework is the main legislative document, with the other ones gaining their status through the contents of the framework. The framework is divided into the “Information”, “Getting Started”, “Foundation Policy”, “Executive Policy” and “Council Policy” sections. The former two are generally used for informational purposes. Foundation-, Executive- and Council policy are binding to their target groups. Enforcement bodies of the foundation do not prosecute by the framework, but instead prosecute by clauses of the Foundation Law Book, which is its criminal code. The Foundation Law Book, as its criminal code, provides enforcement bodies with these regulations. The Law Book is generally divided into “General Information”, “Ethical Violations” and “Intelligence Violations”.

The “General Information” section provides enforcement bodies with general information as to how violations are dealt with, along with principle clauses. The Clauses section features four clauses, along with other miscellaneous regulations:

• Supremacy Clause, determining that the foundation framework and foundation law book are the two superior legislative documents of the foundation. Regulations of departments fall out of effect if in conflict with either of these documents. The superiority between the framework and law book is not regulated.
• Ex Post Facto Clause, prohibiting the prosecution of actions that have been outlawed after the action has already concluded, and that amended laws can not be applied to acts occurring before the amendment was enacted. Instead, the law in its old version is to be applied.
• Grandfather Clause, stating that an old law may not be applied to prosecute an action if there is a newer version of the law, or a different younger law taking effect in the situation. This prohibits enforcement bodies from using outdated laws or traditional rules to prosecute personnel.
• Double Jeopardy Clause, allowing each violation to only be prosecuted and punished once, regardless whether the sentence is later appealed or not. This introduces the concept of “prosecutive waste”, saying that the sole attempt of prosecuting a case may be wasted through misconduct. This does not apply to prosecution by enforcement bodies in connection with internal prosecution by department management.

Further, the clauses and regulations make accomplices liable to the same extent as the main violator. Moreover, it creates the jurisdictions of the Internal Monitoring & Enforcement Division and Iota-10, and determines the liability of Studio Staff. It also allows prosecutors to ban Level-0 personnel on-site if they are visibly trolling.

“Ethical Violations” are further divided into violations of minor, moderate and severe intensity. Violations are interdictions, meaning outlawed acts in the foundation. Violating one of these laws may result in prosecution and punishment. Violations are coded in the format VO §X.Y, where X is the subclass of the violation, and Y the violation number. Violations are enumerated in their subclasses.

List of Violations

Paragraphs	Subclass	Jurisdiction	Punishments	Notes
§§ 1.0–1.2	Minor, Ethical	Ethics Committee*	Formal Warning, up to 4 days** Class-E	Violations committed on the Security Department or Mobile Task Forces team on-site are prosecuted by the Internal Monitoring & Enforcement Division (for SD) and the Iota-10 Task Force (for MTF).
§§ 2.0-2.8	Moderate, Ethical		up to 7 days** Class-E
§§ 3.0-3.5	Severe, Ethical		up to 9 days** or permanent Class-E
§§ 4.0-4.5; 4.7-4.9	Intelligence	Internal Security Department	Decided by enforcement body, no public legislative restrictions available
§ 4.6	Intelligence	Intelligence Agency
§ 4.10	Studio, Intelligence	Intelligence Agency, Senior Developers
Asterisks: * The Internal Security Department takes jurisdiction if committed in tandem with a violation of their natural jurisdiction ** With possible 33% extension

The Code of Ethics is officially the third legislative document, but is rarely used or paid attention to. This is due to it being mainly a repetition of the framework, combined with the framework having supremacy over it.

Enforcement

The two main enforcement bodies are the Ethics Committee and the Internal Security Department, with the Intelligence Agency, the O5 Council and Senior Developers mostly playing a side role. The Ethics Committee investigates the incident, and then votes internally on a punishment. The processes of the Internal Security Department are unknown to the public.