Penalties and Tickets Act

Penalties and Tickets Act

An Act to include more offences under the Tickets system.

Article 1: Tickets

§1. The Criminal Code 2020 is amended by:

§1.1. Inserting a new Article 8 in Part 2, which shall read:

Article 8: Tickets

Repealed<ref name="fines">Amendment to the Penalties and Tickets Act passed and signed on 22 September 2025.</ref>

§1. Any criminal offense may be summarily punished with a Ticket, which provides for the muting of any person for no more than 48 hours on the first offense, and up to 96 hours for subsequent offences under the same Article;

<ref name="fines" />§1. Any criminal offense may be summarily punished with a Ticket, which provides for the muting of any person for no more than 48 hours on the first offense (or, at the offender’s election, a fine equal to 10% of the funds in their account, with a minimum of 40 Tau to the Department of the Treasury), and up to 96 hours for subsequent offences under the same Article (reducible to 48 hours upon payment of a fine equal to 20% of the funds in their account, with a minimum of 120 Tau to the Department of the Treasury).

Provided that –

A. Tickets may be issued by any law enforcement officer;

B. Tickets may be refused by the person it is issued to, in which case the person must be unmuted;

C. No charges may be brought against a person whom a ticket is issued to, unless the person refuses the ticket;

D. No tickets may be issued more than 3 days after the commission of an Offense; and,

E. No tickets may be issued for offences specified in the First and Second Schedule.”

§1.2. Deleting §5. and §6. from Article 15a.;

§1.3. Creating a new §5. in Article 15a, which shall read:

§5. Any competent authority may summarily eject or ban alleged unlawfully used alternate accounts from the SimDem Discord Server.

§1.4. Deleting §3. and §4. from Article 30;

§1.5. Deleting §5. and §6. from Article 31;

§1.6. Deleting §4. and §5. from Article 46a;

§1.7. Deleting §3. and §4. from Article 50 and 50a;

§1.8. Deleting §3. and §4. from Article 51;

§1.9. Increasing the number of each article after the new Article 8 by 1, until the article titled “Article 39. Incumbent Election Interference” has been renumbered as “Article 40. Incumbent Election Interference”;

§1.10. Creating a First Schedule which shall read:

• Inchoate Offences;
• Article 52a Doxxing;
• Article 52b Threats to Dox;
• Article 53 §1. First Degree Harassment;
• Article 54 Sexual Harassment;
• Article 55 Failure to Report Sexual Harassment;
• Article 59 Blackmail; and,
• Article 60 Abuse of Vulnerability;

and,

§1.10.1. Creating a Second Schedule which shall read:

• Offences under Part 6 of the Act except for Article 22 Making a Frivolous Claim;
• Offences under Part 8 Crimes Against Public Interest;
• Offences under Part 9 Electoral Crimes; and,
• All articles under Part 10 Crimes Against the State with the exception of Article 50 Spamming and Brigading and Article 50a Voice Chat Disruption.

§1.11. Creating a new §6. in Article 6, which shall read:

Ҥ6. Where an Article supplies a minimum punishment, a Judge shall have discretion to impose up to half of the minimum sentence as a suspended sentence, unless the Article is listed in the First Schedule.

§6.1. No person shall serve a suspended sentence unless a finding of Probable Cause has been made against them for crimes committed up to 3 months after the person is sentenced, at which point they shall immediately serve the suspended sentence.”;

and,

§1.12. Substituting the words “in Articles 40 or 52” with “in Article 52” in Article 34.

§2. The Executive Act is amended by –

§2.1 Deleting §5. and its subsection.

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Authored by hmquestionable

Passed by the Senate on 19 March 2025

Signed by the President on 19 March 2025