The Central Trade Authority Legal Code – Handbook Edition is the single portable statute book distributed to citizens, contractors, and transient crews. Jurisdiction applies “automatically upon docking, landing, or transit” through any Authority-registered zone.
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The CTA Legal Code – Handbook Edition
General Info
Type: Portable, handheld legal code book
Place of origin: CTA
Used by: Citizens, contractors, and transient crews
The Central Trade Authority Legal Code – Handbook Edition is the single portable statute book distributed to citizens, contractors, and transient crews. Jurisdiction applies “automatically upon docking, landing, or transit” through any Authority-registered zone.
It is a useful tool to have when traveling through areas under CTA control.
Don’t lose this thing.
Writing and revision are handled by the Legal Directory, a subdivision under the High Directorate responsible for interpreting registry data into legislative updates. The publication process is long and bureaucratic. The proposed revisions are tested in simulated models, reviewed by inter-sector committees, and only then compiled into the next edition. Updates are released on a fixed cycle, and each version supersedes the last.
There are many editions of the condensed handbook distributed over the lifetime of the CTA.
It was decided in the early days of the CTA that a portable guide to legal code would be helpful to those transitioning into CTA life, and it continues to be updated to the present day.
First published in 2 CY, it replaced the patchwork of wartime codes. It drew on military law, corporate regulations, and post-war treaties, blending them into its own separate and arguably convenient entity.
CTA HANDBOOK | CENTRAL TRADE AUTHORITY LEGAL CODE – HANDBOOK EDITION
CHAPTER I – GENERAL CONDUCT AND CIVIL ORDER