[MR] Clerk of Law Updates for April and May, with upcoming changes for June 2006

Fri May 5 08:11:08 PDT 2006

Greetings,

  The Clerk of Law site has been updated with recent and upcoming policy changes at http://law.atlantia.sca.org/.  

  Please contact the officer responsible for the changes with any questions or concerns.

  In service,

  Lady Courtney de Houghton

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  The following new policy was published in the The April 2006 Acorn:

  1.11   Policy on Alcohol at Events     1.11.1   When a site written contract is silent on alcohol, branches may not publish in any announcement that alcohol is permitted or excluded and may not sponsor activities related to alcohol. In order to have SCA sponsored activities which require the use of alcohol such as brewing and vinting competitions, the written contract must be revised giving permission. Verbal authorization is not sufficient. However, the SCA will not prohibit or monitor the responsible use of alcohol by individuals at these sites.   1.11.2   Site contracts which include alcohol permission may be advertised as such.   1.11.3   Sites with alcohol prohibitions will be advertised as dry sites and the seneschal and event steward will be responsible for maintenance of the signed contract. Exceptions to the contract must be in writing from the site owner or contractual authority. 

  5.1.3   No two signatories on the same account may be related to one another.   All subsequent policy in section 5.1. was renumbered accordingly.

  5.4.4   Event Reports should be submitted for every event held by a local group. These should be completed with copies of the event receipts attached and sent with the corresponding Quarterly Reports. Kingdom Level events have more specific report requirements in addition to the Quarterly reporting and are defined in Atlantian Financial Policy.   
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    The following new policy was published in the The May 2006 Acorn:

  6.11.8   Meeting Minutes - Group chroniclers are responsible for taking minutes at group meetings (or ensuring that someone else takes the minutes) and publishing them in the next issue of the newsletter. As group meetings can be scheduled at different times throughout the month, and meeting minutes may need to be posted electronically immediately after the meeting to promote group discussion and participation, they may also be published on the group's website or electronic distribution list prior to being published in the newsletter. These minutes do not have to be excessively detailed, but should give enough information so that an individual who misses a given meeting has a reasonable indication of what business was conducted.      6.12.5   Duplication of Newsletter Content   Should the website contain information from a newsletter that is paid for by subscriptions, with the exception of meeting minutes which may need to be posted electronically immediately after a
 group meeting to promote group discussion and participation, every effort should be made to ensure that any updates to this information occurs after the newsletter has had a chance to be received by the subscribers to preserve the benefit of the subscription. By no means is the website intended or allowed to replace the printed newsletter. In the event that the newsletter is wholly funded by the group or by fund-raising, then online updates can coincide with the production of the printed newsletter. Under no circumstances will the website be used as the sole distribution point of information pertaining to the chronicler's office. All information on the website must be available in hard copy form for those members of the populace who do not have access to the Internet.      Revocation of the January 2006 changes to sections 3.6.1.10 and the creation of section 3.6.1.15. Section 3.6.1.10 is listed below in it's restored condition.

  3.6.1.10   Use of Weapons.     3.6.1.10.1   All weapons to be used in a particular bout of single combat will be declared to the opponent and the marshal before the fight.   3.6.1.10.2   If an auxiliary weapon is carried in such a way as to prevent proper acknowledgment of a blow, any blow striking the weapon will be considered a telling blow to the area that would have been hit.   3.6.1.10.3   Except for the proper use of a weapon, grasping, pushing, or striking an opponent is not allowed.   3.6.1.10.4   Striking, pushing, or pressing an opponent's shield with a hand, weapon, or shield is allowed.   3.6.1.10.5   If the opponent has an edged weapon, striking, pushing, or pressing an opponent's weapon's striking portion (regardless of the orientation of the edge) with any part of the body (for example grabbing a sword with the hand) is not allowed.

  3.6.1.10.6   Weapon strikes with excessive force are not allowed. Blows with force levels that significantly exceed that necessary to be a telling blow, and significantly increase the chance of substantial injury are blows with excessive force.   

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    The following new policy will be published in the The June 2006 Acorn:

  Rapier Policy has been re-organized the rules for clarity and readibility. There are NO CHANGES to these rules.

  Removal of 3.4.12 through 3.4.12.4.2, replaced with 3.11.1 through 3.11.1.4.2
Removal of 3.5.5 through 3.5.5.1, replaced with 3.11.2 through 3.11.2.1
Removal of 3.6.3 through 3.6.3.2.8, replaced with 3.11.3 through 3.11.3.2.8
Removal of 3.7.2 through 3.7.2.12, replaced with 3.11.4 through 3.11.4.12

Lady Courtney de Houghton 
Atlantian Clerk of Law
Barony of Ponte Alto Chronicler
St. Anne's Clothiers Guild Webminister
Barony of Ponte Alto Deputy Webminister
Kingdom of Atlantia, SCA

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