Rewiew of Bills By Jury - Section 1 : Preamble
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The Act is to create an administrative procedure, to screen a Bills passed by the City Councilors, to further ensure that the Bills is consistent with the will of the citizenry.
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| Section 2 : Format of the act 2.1
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Each clause of this Bill is a procedure or an instruction and has a list of persons for whom that procedure/instruction is meant for. The instructed person may depute a person to fulfil the task, but the first person shall be responsible for the deputed person.
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The rupee amount in this text uses price level of the date on which this Resolution was passed. The officer in-charge may adjust the amount every 6 months using an inflation index issued by RBI.
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| Section 3 : Juritarian Review (Screening) of a Bill passed by City Councilors 3.1
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Wheneven a Bill is passed by a City Council, the Mayor would seek a "Juritarian Review" from citizenry begore signing the Bill, unless the Bill is passed by Direct Vote and it has over 51% of YESes from the citizens.
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Within 7 days after passing of the Bill by the City Council, the Mayor (or an assistant appointed by him) will randmonly select 24 citizens-voters from each ward and summon them. If a citizen does not appear after getting the summons, the Mayor may impose a fine of upto Rs 1000/-.
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Of the 24 citizens per ward, of those who appear, the Mayor would randomly select 12 and form a Ward-Jury for each ward.
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The Corporator who had presented the Bill can appoint a person per Ward to explain the Bill to the members of the Ward Jury. In addition, the Corporator from that ward too may appear to support/oppose the Bill before the Jurors. In addition, the Jurors by simple majority may choose a any citizen to explain them the Bill.
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The three persons will alternatively speak for 1 hour each on the Bill passed by the Council. The presentation would go on for at least 1 day and at most 3 days. It may end before 3 days if over 6 Jurors ask for end of the presentation.
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After the end of the presentations, the Jurors would discuss the Bill amongst themselves for at least 2 hours. The discussion would end when over 6 out 12 Jurors ask for termination of the discussion.
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At the end of the discussion, each Juror will declare his YES/NO on the Bill. Not declaring YES/NO would mean a NO. The Ward-Jury would have said to pass the Bill ONLY if over 6 members declare YES.
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| Section 4 : Passing or failing of the Bill 4.1
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The Mayor will sign the Bill ONLY if majority of Ward Juries approve the Bill. Else he will declare the Bill as failed.
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For each Bill passed, there will be DIFFERENT set of Jurors. A Jurors who has appeared in a Ward Jury to screen a law cannot reappear in a similar Jury for another 10 years.
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