Rogatio Aurelia de emendatione ad remissionem tributi apparitorum (Nova Roma)

The Aurelian law on the amendment for the remission of the tax of the apparitors

I. Besides some minor amendments for clarity, this lex is intended to empower the senate to provide allowances for tax relief for apparitores to increase participation in the various decuria. This lex is intended to be an amending lex only and is not intended to be standalone. This lex modifies the Lex Vedia de assiduis et capite censis.

II. Article III.C. of the lex Vedia de assiduis et capite censis is to be replaced in toto as follows:

C. Public office. No member of the capite censi may run for or hold office as one of the ordinarii (including the apparitores), nor be appointed to or hold office as provincial governor, nor be titled as Senator or members of the Collegium Pontificium or priest or Sacerdos.

1. Members of the capite censi may hold provincial or local offices at the discretion of the governor of the province in which they reside.

2. The senate may grant single tax period exemptions to all or some of the decuriae of the apparitores, allowing capite censi to apply for or maintain these appointments.

III. References to "Lex Vedia Centuriata" and "lex Vedia tributorum" shall be replaced by "lex Arria Tullia de classibus et centuriis et de tribubus novis".

IV. Article III.D. of the lex Vedia de assiduis et capite censisisis to be replaced in toto as follows:

D. Default of payment while in office. Members of the Senatorial order, members of the public equestrian order, sitting magistrates of the ordinarii, governors, state commissioners, state apparitores, and all members holding a priesthood or classified as a sacerdos or camillus, who become members of the Capite Censi due to non-payment of taxes willy be automatically removed from office.

1. Automatic removal is to be facilitated by the appropriate department of the censorial office.

2. The Collegium Pontificum may always rule exemptions for priests across all religious appointments.

3. The senate may rule when the automatic reclassification to Capite Censi takes place, so long as it is at or before the first day of the last month in any given tax year.

V. Article IV of the lex Vedia de assiduis et capite censis is to replaced in toto as follows:

IV. Tax Payment Status. All persons obtaining citizenship after this lex takes effect will have Capite Censis status until such time as payment is made.

1. Any citizen of the Capiti Censi will assume the rights and privileges of Assidui status, as defined by law, upon receipt of tax payment in full, as defined by senatus consultum.

2. If payment is made during a contio or election period, the change in status will take place after the election concludes.

3. Officers responsible for collecting tax payments must communicate a successful payment for a citizen, to those officers responsible for maintaining public records of tax-payment status, within one month of payment.