SHOPS
Shop owner:
Shop name (please link)
Shop banner:
Shop description (make sure it is good as it will be the text to represent your shop):
Hiring?:
Current order count:
Do you agree to abide to our laws?
Are you following this topic (optional)?
Do you want to receive RPA updates on your profile (optional)?

CURRENCY FORM
Currency owner:
Currency name (please link)
Currency banner:
Currency description (make sure it is good as it will be the text to represent your currency):
Hiring?:
Do you agree to abide to our laws?
Are you following this topic (mandatory)?
Do you want to receive RPA updates on your profile (optional)?

JUDGE FORM
Are you affiliated with any member shops or other federations and will you ensure that you’re unbiased?:
Why you want to join:
Any alt usernames:
How active will you be (important):
Do you have any prior experience with federations such as USS, SPA, TSF and SU (optional):
Have you read all laws?
Do you agree to judge based on all laws?
Do you want to receive profile updates (optional)?

NON-SHOP MEMBER FORM
How you will help us:
Any alt usernames:
I ___ read all laws and agree to abide to them.
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Section 1: Shop/Representatives Powers
1.1: Members can leave at any time, regardless of the situation
1.2: Shops can appoint a listed amount of representatives
1.3: Representatives can vote in all elections
1.3.1: Representatives can only represent a single shop once. If shops don’t have enough members those spots will not be counted and will be left vacant.
1.3.2: Representatives of multiple shops may only vote on behalf of one shop.
1.4: Shops can list with any other federations or shop associations without our approval
1.5: Anyone can apply for any vacant position
1.5.1: People who apply for things MUST accept if they don’t receive a position and must not get angry
1.6: Members can ask for a judicial review on any decision
1.6.1: If someone feels a member has been fired unfairly they can ask for 2 judicial reviews, after which they will be banned from the organisation
Section 2: Shop/Representative requirements
2.1: Members must never act to ruin our reputation
2.2: The RPA does allow offtopic but please don’t use too many posts when doing so
2.3: Members must always follow our rules. If they don’t agree with any of our rules then tell us what you don’t like in a calm and dignified manner.
2.3.1: If the thing a member doesn’t like is serious, then they must still be polite
2.3.2: Scratchers must not demand for a major rule change and must be calm and dignified in their proposition.
2.3.3: If members blatantly don’t comply with any of our rules then they shouldn’t complain if they lose their position(s)
2.4: Members can be fired at any time
2.4.1: Members must convey any disappointment due to losing positions in a dignified manner
2.5: The RPA does allow vacation for as long as a member likes but it is helpful if they let us know beforehand
2.6: Members must respond to activity checks within 3 days
2.6.1: If members don’t respond they will be notified on their profile
2.6.2: If members don’t respond within 2 weeks their positions will be declared vacant/their shop will be declared inactive
2.6.3: As a shop Representative members can respond on behalf of their shops. This does not protect any of their members, but it does guarantee that their shop will stay
2.7: If a shop becomes inactive or closes then members can contact the RPA and RPA members can help with efforts to restore the shop in new threads, or do a deal with another shop for a merger or acquisition.
2.8: These laws are subject to change at any time and members must check them regularly for updates.
2.9: Shops must select 1-3 representatives based on their size.
2.9.1: The amount of representatives will be judged by @MClovers or the president every 2 weeks.
2.9.1.1: All shops will be checked for size as well as activity during this time.
2.10: Shop representatives may be asked to vote in elections or votes.
2.10.1: For the sake of simplicity sometimes votes will be hosted based on equal representation, however this will not be used for important votes.
2.10.2: The drafter of the policy will decide whether the vote is passed via representatives or shops.
Section 3: Judge rules
3.1: The RPA prides ourselves in our association, please don’t by any means try to ruin our reputation
3.2: Judges must complete all decisions without any bias
3.3: Judges must complete decision quickly and decisively
3.3.1: Judges must not be inactive for longer than a week without approval.
3.3.2: Judges must appoint an unbiased replacement if they are going to be away
3.3.3: The Illuminati law says that no excuses will be accepted for unexpected inactivity. Judges can regain their position later on though.
3.4: Judges must tell us of any affiliations with shops and/or federations to make sure we have an unbiased court
3.4.1: Judges can have some affiliations but must confirm them and demonstrate that they will not have a bias towards them
Section 4: Remaining unbiased decisions during lawsuits
4.1: Members can not try to influence a decision made by a judge unless you are the one that has been taken to court.
4.1.1: If members are caught trying to influence them (profile comments etc.) then they will be immediately fired
4.1.2: Judges must immediately report any efforts to influence their decision that are not from people being charged
4.2: All decisions are final. They can be challenged after one week, but only if further evidence against is found.
4.2.1: Further evidence must be something that realistically has a chance of changing the decision
4.2.2: If judges are removed and/or added then all challenge waiting times are reset to 0
4.3: To make it easier during decisions new people joining will be told to wait
4.3.1: Any previous additions will be completely added beforehand
Section 5: Emergency control
5.1: Only trust messages of @MClovers being inactive or similar things from members
5.2: If the owner become inactive please don’t report this topic to be closed unless a fair amount of people are necroposting. @MClovers will always do his best to let everyone know if he is leaving.
5.3: After inactivity @MClovers trusts any member to make a new thread as long as a majority of our association agrees.
5.3.1: @MClovers trust these people to be responsible and keep our good reputation
5.3.2: Please cite these laws when you create a new thread
5.4: If we grow too fast too manage we may temporarily close new memberships. We will slowly reopen them afterwards.
Section 6: Presidential controls
6.1: On the 1st of March a presidential election was hosted. This winner (poppybunny) runs most business and imposes most laws.
6.1.: Elections shall be held every quarter (3 months) from then on.
6.1.1: Presidents can call elections up to 2 months early if they think that it will benefit themselves/the association, although they can be taken to court for excessively calling elections
6.2: This person must first propose any new laws/ law changes
6.3: They must appoint a secretary and Vice President
6.4: If an action by a president is deemed unfair any members can take them to court.
6.4.1: If this action occurs a house vote will occur instantaneously.
6.4.2: If this is voted for by 2/3 or more of representatives a royal comission will be officially opened by @MClovers
6.4.3: This official royal commission will include extensive questioning and research by all judges, plus 4 guest judges appointed by other judges.
6.4.4: If this royal commission results in the finding of things that break the community guidelines the Scratch Team will immediately be contacted and the president shall be repealed of all positions.
6.4.5: If the royal commission results in the finding of behavior that breaks our rules but not the ST's rules then they will be removed from their position immediately
6.4.6: If the royal commision results in no finding the president will be given an additional 3 months in office.
6.5: If a president is removed or resigns they will be replaced by their deputy.
6.5.1: The secretary will also become the Vice President and the new Secretary will be appointed by the new president
6.6: The secretary can fire and add members freely (within reason), while the Vice President cannot
Section 7: Mental Support and Holidays
7.1: Holidays can be taken for as long as that person likes
7.1.1: If that person is president their deputy should assume charge and run the association while the president is away.
7.1.2: If @MClovers is away a new temporary front page by the president with up-to date information will be linked
7.1.3: All other members do not need to worry about being away, they just must contact us.
7.2: If members feel mentally ill in any way you should feel safe to contact us on the matter
7.2.1: The RPA will help you out and support you in any matter possible.
7.2.2: Members will immediately be given leave if you feel in any way mentally ill.
7.2.3: After this leave members will be given back their positions
Section 8: Law Propositions
8.1: The president can propose laws at any time other than within 2 weeks of an election
8.2: Laws must be proposed in a formal manner.
8.2.1: By ‘formal’ we mean that it must be presented in a similar manner to this, with the correct sections and parts of sections.
8.2.2: Joking around may seem fun, but all propositions and parts of propositions WILL be taken literally.
8.3: It must go through all 3 stages and win.
8.3.1: The first stage is approval by the house. It must get at least 50% of the vote.
8.3.2: The second stage is approval by the Head Department
8.3.2.1: The head department consists of the Owner, President, Vice President
8.3.3: The third stage is judge approval
8.3.3.1: The judges will only overturn things if they are extremely unlawful
8.4: All laws will be initiated immediately after voted in
8.4.1: Any members breaking new laws as they are passed will not be acted upon
8.4.2: They have a responsibility, though, to fix themselves up as quickly as possible.
Section 9: Jobs
9.1 People in new jobs will be able to vote.
9:1.1 If a person is in multiple new jobs then they will still only get one additional vote.
9.1.1.1 If a person is in one or more new jobs and is a shop representative and/or a judge then they get a vote for each of the shop/s they are a representative of and one vote for all of their new job/s.
9.2 New jobs candidates will be required to fill in a form.
9.3 New jobs are following:
9.3.1 Artist Designer.
9.3.1.1 An Artist Designer helps by making banners for member shops that need them.
9.3.2 Formatter.
9.3.2.1 A Formatter helps member shops; and the RPA with BBcode.
9.3.3 Order Helper.
9.3.3.1 An Order Helper helps struggling shops with their orders.
9.3.4 Slogan Writer
9.3.4.1 A Slogan Writer writes slogans for the RPA, the member shops and representatives that would like them.
Section 10: Credit
10.1: Full credit must be given to the RPA for anything made by them
10.2: The SPA also has credit in this organization
Section 11: Shop Charter (credit to Co49 for the suggestion a while back)
11.1: Workers must be able to request leave from their shop.
11.1.1: Shops should grant most leave requests.
11.1.2: A good explanation must be given for rejecting a leave request (in exceptional cases).
11.1.3: Workers must not be penalised for being inactive during their leave.
11.2: Shops must not act maliciously towards one another.
11.2.1: Shops must not try to actively damage the reputation of one another.
11.2.2: Shops must not lie about other shops or workers of other shops.
11.2.3: Shops must not actively try to start flame wars with each other.
11.2.4: Shops must not steal work from each other.
11.2.5: Shops must honour partnership deals between each other.
11.3: Shops may dismiss workers for good reason.
11.3.1: If the wrongdoing by a worker is minor, at least one warning must be given and time to improve before the worker is dismissed.
11.3.2: If the wrongdoing by a worker is grievous or malicious, dismissal may take place with no warning.
Section 12: Profile notifications
12.1: Shops have complete control over whether they receive a profile comment for important events.
12.1.1: Getting notifications is completely optional and will not affect a shop’s status as a member.
12.2: During elections and crucial votes all representatives and shops will be notified regardless of whether they choose to have notifications or not.
12.3: These notifications will be sent out by members.
12.4: Random numbers to avoid spam must be used.
12.5: A message at the end of each notification will be left giving people the option to opt out immediately.
12.5.1: If this happens the person supplying the notifications must notify @MClovers of the username of the person opting out.

hellounicorns2 wrote:

It is okay that you’ve used our format but going forward it would be nice if you adjusted to things that you made yourself. Also, please link us in the credit. Good luck with this association!