AIN Code

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The Code of Laws of the Alliance of Independent Nations, commonly referred to as the AIN Code, is a compendium of all of the AIN's laws that are currently in force. Legally established by the passage of the AIN Code Act on 9 February 2014, the Code organizes the active clauses of all of the union's laws by subject. The union's staff, consisting of its administrators, moderators, and government ministers, are tasked with the responsibility of maintaining the Code, which is housed on this wiki.

History
The AIN Code was originally proposed by Zachary Hart in his first presidential campaign in February 2013. He envisioned it as a convenient reference guide for Alliance members who needed to know what union laws said about a particular subject. Little progress was made in making the Code a reality for the next year, until Hart proposed the AIN Code Act in the Members' Assembly on 3 February 2014. His bill met no opposition and was passed within the following week.

The first official title of the AIN Code was written by former President Thomas Ketteringham and based on a draft by Hart. It passed in the Members' Assembly on 21 February 2014 after extensive discussion and revision, and it was officially titled the Ninth Membership Reform Act. The second official title, which contains all of the union's laws on polls, voting, and union governmental elections, was written by President Zachary Hart and passed in the Members' Assembly on 7 June 2014. Additional titles dealing with the union government's roleplay and non-roleplay arms are planned, as is a title dealing with non-roleplay regulations affecting member states. Other titles will be created as the staff analyze the union's large body of laws.

Structure
The AIN Code is based on the organizational structure of the United States Code, with titles as its largest subunits. Each title, in turn, contains a variable number of (from largest to smallest) sections, paragraphs, and clauses. The AIN Code Act allows clauses to be divided into subclauses if necessary, as well as for the staff to create other subdivisions as they see fit. As of yet, no such additional subdivisions have been created, nor do any clauses of existing titles contain subclauses.

List of titles

 * Title 1: Membership
 * Codified into positive law as the Ninth Membership Reform Act, 21 February 2014.
 * Title 2: Voting
 * Codified 7 June 2014.
 * Title 3: Member Conduct
 * Codified 27 June 2014.
 * Title 4: Non-Roleplay Government
 * Codified as the Alliance Act (2014), 10 September 2014.
 * Title 5: Roleplay Government
 * Codified 29 December 2014 as sections 1-5 of the Roleplay Government Reform Act.
 * Title 6: Country Regulations
 * Codified 15 March 2015.