______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Code of Conduct Act 2019 of the Habboon Defense Agency ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ An Act To establish the most essential of Rules, Regulations and expected behaviour a propos Visitors, Very Important People and Employees of the Habboon Defense Agency. Be it enacted by the plenum and legislative organs of the Habboon Defense Agency in their majority assembled, Section 1. Short Title; Table of Contents. (a) Short Title .— This Act may be cited as the “Code of Conduct Act of 2019”. (b) Table of Contents .— The table of Contents for this Act is as follows: Sec .1. Short Title; Table of Contents Sec. 2. Definitions. Sec. 3. Construction; Severability. Sec. 4. Effective Date. TITLE I - NATIONAL SECURITY Sec. 101. Espionage. Sec. 102. Control of Subversive Activities. Sec. 103. Violation of Security Regulations. Sec. 104. Agency Emergencies. Sec. 105. Threats against the Executive Leadership. Sec. 106. False Statements Influencing Foreign Relations. Sec. 107. Treacherous Behaviour. TITLE II - JUSTICE Sec. 201. Power of Court. Sec. 202. Influencing an Officer or a Juror. Sec. 203. Alteration of record or process; False Bail. Sec. 204. Recording, listening to, or observing proceedings of juries while deliberating or voting. Sec. 205. Obstruction of Court Orders. Sec. 206. Tampering with a Witness, Victim or an Informant. Sec. 207. Perjury. Sec. 208. Avoiding Prosecution. TITLE III - FRAUD, DISHONESTY AND CONFLICTS OF INTEREST Sec. 301. Conspiracy to Commit Offense or to Defraud the Agency. Sec. 302. False Personation. Sec. 303. Bribery. Sec. 304. Extortion. Sex. 305. Recusal. TITLE IV - OFFENSES AGAINST THE PERSON, PROPERTY AND THE PEACE Sec. 401. Transporting or Distributing Obscene or Crime-inciting Matter. Sec. 402. Sexual Abuse. Sec. 403. Assault. Sec. 404. Conspiracy against rights. Sec. 405. Hate Crime Acts. Sec. 406. Wrongful Administrative Action. & Sec. 407. Malfeasance. & Sec. 408. Disturbance of the Peace. etc... ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Code of Conduct Act 2019 of the Habboon Defense Agency ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. In this Act, the following definitions apply: (1) Each of the terms “Agency”, “Habboon Defense Agency” (herein abbreviated as; HDA), means the Habboon Defense Agency owned by “ryu” and “Loading”. (2) The term “promotion” means the act or fact of being raised in position or rank. (3) The term “in Command” (herein abbreviated as; iC) means the rank classification of an Employee of the Agency; (4) The term “promotional range” means the rank or position span within and up to which an individual, position, rank or entity is authorised to issue promotion. (5) The term “status” means any affiliation to the Agency other than employment. (6) The term “warning” means the act or fact of issuance of a binding notice to cease and desist from engaging in an illegal or unlawful act or event to an Employee who has been found engaging is said act or event. (7) The term “strike” means the act or fact of issuance of a disciplinary penalty to an Employee found committing an infraction. a) Methods of issuance, administration and regulation of the disciplinary penalty of a “strike” are subject to statute. (8) The term “demotion” means the act of fact of being decreased in position or rank. (9) The term “revocation” means the act or fact of rescinding a status attributed to an entity or individual. (10) The term “suspension” means the act or fact of being demoted ad interim or permanently and being removed from a rank or position ad interim or permanently or/and having status revoked ad interim ore permanently as a disciplinary penalty. (11) The term “termination” means the act or fact of being removed from a rank or position. (12) The term “Administrative Action” means a promotion or warning, or strike or demotion or revocation or suspension or termination. (13) The term “affiliated room” means a room within the Agency’s immediate jurisdiction. (14) The term “Client Command” means any action, or effect or visual that may and can be triggered or performed via typing a specific command led by a colon “:”. (15) The term “Enable” means any action, or effect, or visual stimulus that may and can be produced through the usage of client command; “:enable(SPACE)[Number from 0 up to and including 587]” or “:[Name of Command]. (16) The term “Room Rights” means granted permission to “decorate” a room, that may be granted by solely the Owner of the selfsame room. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Code of Conduct Act 2019 of the Habboon Defense Agency ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (17) Each of the terms “Hallways” and “Corridors” means the main routes that act as physical passages within the Agency’s Headquarters and HDA affiliated rooms. (18) The term “Colored Chat” means the styling of text bubbles that may be activated through the use of an in-game button. (19) The term “Executive Leadership” collectively means the employees of the Agency holding a second in Command rank or any higher rank. (20) The term “Fine” means a pecuniary punishment imposed by a court upon a person convicted of a crime. (21) The term “Training” means an educational session conducted by an Employees of the CIA. (22) The term “Transfer” means the employment of an individual in the Agency through any means other than recruitment. SEC. 3. CONSTRUCTION; SEVERABILITY. Any provision of this Act held to be invalid or unenforceable by its terms, or as applied to any person or circumstance, shall be construed so as to give it the maximum effect permitted by law, unless such holding shall be one of utter invalidity or unenforceability, in which event such provision shall be deemed severable from this Act and shall not affect the remainder thereof, or the application of such provision to other persons not similarly situated or to other, dissimilar circumstances. SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act shall take immediate effect on the date of enactment. TITLE I — INTERNAL SECURITY SEC. 101. Espionage (a) In General .— Whoever, for the purpose of obtaining information respecting the Agency’s internal defense with intent or reason to believe that the information is to be used to the injury of the Agency, or to the advantage of any alien establishment, gets hired, attains a status, or otherwise obtains information concerning any work of the Agency’s internal security, or other documents or instruments for use in time of emergency; or (b) Whoever, for the purpose aforesaid, and with like intent or reason to believe, copies, takes, makes, or obtains, or attempts to copy, take, make, or obtain, any document, writing, or picture of anything connected with the internal defense of the Agency; or (c) Whoever, for the purpose aforesaid, receives or obtains or agrees or attempts to receive or obtain from any person, or from any source whatever, any document, writing or picture, of anything connected with the Agency’s internal defense, knowing or having reason to believe, at the time he receives or obtains, or agrees or attempts to receive or obtain it, that it has been or ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Code of Conduct Act 2019 of the Habboon Defense Agency ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ will be obtained, taken, made, or disposed of by any person contrary to the provisions of this chapter; or (d) Whoever, lawfully having possession of, access to, control over, or being entrusted with any document, writing, or picture relating to the Agency’s internal defense, or information relating to the internal defense which information the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the Agency or to the advantage of any alien establishment, willfully communicates, delivers, transmits or causes to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted or attempts to communicate, deliver, transmit or cause to be communicated, delivered or transmitted the same to any person not entitled to receive it; or (e) Whoever having unauthorized possession of, access to, or control over any document, writing, or picture relating to the Agency’s internal defense, or information relating to the internal defense which information the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the Agency or to the advantage of any alien establishment, willfully communicates, delivers, transmits or causes to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted, or attempts to communicate, deliver, transmit or cause to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted the same to any person not entitled to receive it; or (f) Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, picture or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be delivered to anyone in violation of their trust, or to be destroyed, or (2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally delivered or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such delivery or destruction to the Executive Leadership — Shall be fined under this title or terminated, or both. (g) If two or more persons conspire to violate any of the foregoing provisions of this section, and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each of the parties to such conspiracy shall be subject to the punishment provided for the offense which is the object of such conspiracy. SEC. 102. CONTROL OF SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES (a) Communication of Classified Information .— It shall be unlawful for any employee of the Agency, to communicate in any manner or by any means, to any other person whom such employee knows or has reason to believe to be an agent of any alien establishment, any information of a kind which shall have been classified by the Agency as affecting the security thereof, knowing or having reason to know that such information has been so classified, unless such employee shall have been specifically authorized by the Agency, to make such disclosure of such information. (b) Receipt of, or attempt to receive, by an alien establishment agent classified information .— It shall be unlawful for any agent of any alien establishment knowingly to obtain or receive, or ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Code of Conduct Act 2019 of the Habboon Defense Agency ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (c) attempt to obtain or receive, directly or indirectly, from any employee of the Agency, any information of a kind which shall have been classified by the Agency as affecting the security thereof, unless special authorization for such communication shall first have been obtained from the foreign establishment and the Agency. (d) Penalties for violation .— Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine, or termination, or by both such fine and such termination, and shall, moreover, be thereafter ineligible to hold any rank, or position or place of honor, created by the Agency. SEC. 103. VIOLATION OF SECURITY REGULATIONS (a) Misdemeanor .— Whoever willfully violates any security regulation or order of the Agency shall be fined under title or demoted, or both. (i) Security regulations include the lawful rights of passage or entry to the Agency’s affiliated rooms. (b) Security regulation and order described .— For purposes of paragraph (a), a security regulation or order is a regulation or order that, pursuant to lawful authority— (i) shall be or has been promulgated and classified by the Executive Leadership of the Agency; or (ii) shall be or has been promulgated and classified by any Unit of the Agency. (c) Definitions In this Subsection: (i) The term “Unit” means any entity formed pursuant to lawful authority by the Agency and is assigned special and specific duties, powers and responsibilities which may discharge at its own discretion. SEC. 104. AGENCY EMERGENCIES (a) Declaration .— With respect to executive powers, authorizing the exercise, during the period of an emergency, of any special or extraordinary power, the Founders are authorised to declare such Agency Emergencies. Such proclamation shall immediately be transmitted to all Units of the Agency and published in any intra-Agency communications platform. (b) Assumption of Authority.— Any provisions of law conferring powers and authorities to be exercised during an agency emergency shall be effective and remain in effect (1) only when the Founders or a Founder (in accordance with subsection (a) of this section), specifically declares a national emergency, and (2) only in accordance with this chapter. (c) Exercise of Executive Action .— The Founders or a Founder of the Agency may, at times of a declared agency emergency (in accordance with subsection (b) of this section), exercise their executive prerogative and in such a manner issue orders, proclamations and memoranda that take immediate effect and may regard any and all acts, events or standing of the Agency, its employees, its visitors and its very important people alike. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Code of Conduct Act 2019 of the Habboon Defense Agency ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (i) Such executive action may only be judicially reviewable. (d) Termination .— All powers and authorities possessed by the Founders or a Founder, as a result of the existence of any declaration of agency emergency shall be terminated upon announcement of termination of the agency emergency which may be (1) Ordered by a Founder, or (2) Ordered by the majority of Founders, or (3) Ordered by the majority of the Executive Leadership, or (4) Ordered by a Court of Law. Such termination shall not affect any rights or duties that were assigned or revoked, or penalties that were incurred prior to such date. SEC. 105. THREATS AGAINST THE EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP (a) In General .— Whoever knowingly and willfully submits, sends or transmits any, writing, picture, missive, or document containing any threat to depose, to oust, or to inflict harm upon an Employee within the Executive Leadership of the Agency or knowingly and willfully otherwise makes any such threat against thereof, shall be fined under this title or terminated, or both. SEC. 106. FALSE STATEMENTS INFLUENCING FOREIGN RELATIONS (a) In General .— Whoever, in relation to any dispute or controversy between an alien establishment and the Agency, willfully and knowingly makes any untrue statement, either orally or in writing, which the affiant has knowledge or reason to believe will, or may be used to influence the measures or conduct of any alien establishment, or of any agent of any alien establishment, to the injury of the Agency, or with a view or intent to influence any measure of or action by the Agency to the injury of the Agency, shall be fined under this title or terminated, or both. SEC. 107. TREACHEROUS BEHAVIOUR (a) Treason .— Whoever, is an Employee of the Agency, adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort to damage the Agency, is guilty of treason shall be terminated and fined under this title; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the Agency. (b) Misprision of Treason .— Whoever, is an Employee of the Agency, and having knowledge of the commission of any treason against the Agency, conceals and does not, as soon as may be, disclose and make known the same to the Executive Leadership or to some judge of the Agency, is guilty of misprision of treason and shall be fined under this title or suspended or both. (c) Definitions in this Subsection: (i) The term “Judge” means an individual employed within the Agency and within its Legal Unit and serves within the Agency’s Courts during good behaviour; (ii) The term “Office” means any position within a Unit of the Agency that holds executive, legislative or judicial power. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Code of Conduct Act 2019 of the Habboon Defense Agency ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (d) Rebellion or insurrection .— Whoever incites, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the Agency or the laws thereof, or gives aid and comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or terminated, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the Agency. (e) Seditious conspiracy .— If two or more Employees of the Agency conspire to overthrow or put down the Executive Leadership of the Agency, or to abstract Employees of the Agency, or to oppose the authority thereof, or with malice prevent, hinder or delay the execution or enactment of any Law of the Agency, or with malice seize, take, or possess any property of the Agency contrary to the authority thereof, they shall be fined under this title or terminated, or both. (f) Advocating to overthrow the Executive Leadership of the Agency .— Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the Executive Leadership of the Agency, with malice; or (g) Whoever, with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of the Executive Leadership, publishes, edits, issues, circulates, distributes, or publicly displays any written matter advocating, advising, or teaching the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the Executive Leadership of the Agency with malice, or attempts to do so; or (h) Whoever organizes or helps or attempts to organize any society, group, or assembly of persons who teach, advocate, or encourage the overthrow or destruction of the Executive Leadership by force or violence; or becomes or is a member of, or affiliates with, any such society, group, or assembly of persons, knowing the purposes thereof— Shall be fined under this title or terminated, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the Agency. (i) As used in this section, the terms “organizes” and “organize”, with respect to any society, group, or assembly of persons, including the recruiting of new members, the forming of new groups, and the regrouping or expansion of existing clubs, and other groups of such society, or assembly of persons. TITLE II — JUSTICE SEC. 201. POWER OF COURT (a) In General .— A court of the Agency shall have power to punish by fine or any Administrative Action, or both, at its discretion, such contempt of its authority, and none other, as— (i) Misbehavior of any person in its presence or so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice; (ii) Misbehavior of any of its officers in their official transactions; ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Code of Conduct Act 2019 of the Habboon Defense Agency ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (iii) Disobedience or resistance to its lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command. (b) Any person, or entity willfully disobeying any lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command of any court of the Agency, by doing any act or thing therein, or thereby forbidden, if the act or thing so done be of such character as to constitute also a criminal offense under any statute of the Agency, shall be prosecuted for such contempt and shall be punished by a fine under this title or termination, or both. (c) Such fine shall be paid to the Agency or to the complainant or other party injured by the act constituting the contempt, or may, where more than one is so damaged, be divided or apportioned among them as the court may direct. (d) This section shall not be construed to relate to contempts committed in the presence of the court, or so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice, nor to contempts committed in disobedience of any lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command entered in any suit or action brought or prosecuted in the name of, or on behalf of, the Agency, but the same, and all other cases of contempt not specifically embraced in this section may be punished in conformity to the prevailing usages at law. SEC. 202. INFLUENCING AN OFFICER OR JUROR (a) Whoever corruptly, or by threats, or by any threatening communication, endeavors to influence, intimidate, or impede any juror, or officer in or of any court of the Agency, or officer who may be serving at any examination or other proceeding before any Court, in the discharge of his duty, or by any threatening communication, influences, obstructs, or impedes, or endeavors to influence, obstruct, or impede, the due administration of justice, shall be punished as provided in subsection (b). (b) The punishment for an offense under this section is— (i) in the case of a felony, they shall be fined under this title or terminated, or both. (ii) in the case of a misdemeanor, or a case in which the offense was committed against a juror and in which a misdemeanor was charged, they shall be fined under this title or terminated, or both. (iii) in any other case, they shall be fined under this title or suspended, or both. (c) Whoever attempts to influence the action or decision of any juror of any court of the Agency upon any issue or matter pending before such juror, or before the jury of which he is a member, or pertaining to his duties, by writing or sending to him any written communication, in relation to such issue or matter, shall be fined under this title or demoted, or both. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Code of Conduct Act 2019 of the Habboon Defense Agency ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SEC. 203. ALTERATION OF RECORD OR PROCESS; FALSE BAIL (a) Whoever feloniously alters, falsifies, or otherwise avoids any record, writ, process, or other proceeding, in any court of the Agency, whereby any judgment is reversed, made void, or does not take effect; or (b) Whoever acknowledges, or procures to be acknowledged in any such court, any recognizance, bail, or judgment, in the name of any other person not privy or consenting to the same— (c) Shall be fined under this title or suspended not more than five years, or both. SEC. 204. RECORDING, LISTENING TO, OR OBSERVING PROCEEDINGS OF JURIES WHILE DELIBERATING OR VOTING (a) Whoever knowingly and willfully, by any means whatsoever— (i) records, or attempts to record the proceedings of any jury in any court of the Agency while such jury is deliberating or voting; or (ii) listens to or observes, or attempts to listen to or observe, the proceedings of any jury of which he is not a member in any court of the Agency while such jury is deliberating or voting— shall be fined under this title or demoted, or both. Nothing in paragraph (a) of this section shall be construed to prohibit the taking of notes by a juror in any court of the Agency in connection with and solely for the purpose of assisting him in the performance of his duties as such juror. SEC. 205. OBSTRUCTION OF COURT ORDERS (a) Whoever, by threats willfully prevents, obstructs, impedes, or interferes with, or willfully attempts to prevent, obstruct, impede, or interfere with, the due exercise of rights or the performance of duties under any order, judgment, or decree of a court of the Agency, shall be fined under this title or terminated, or both. (b) No injunctive or other relief against the conduct made criminal by this section shall be denied on the ground that such conduct is a crime. SEC. 206. TAMPERING WITH A WITNESS, VICTIM OR AN INFORMANT (a) Whoever does or attempts to tamper with a witness, victim or informant, with intent to— (i) prevent the attendance or testimony of any person in an official proceeding; (ii) prevent the production of a record, document, or other object, in an official proceeding; or (iii) prevent the communication by any person to a judge of the Agency of information relating to the commission or possible commission of an offense; shall be punished as provided in paragraph (c). (b) Whoever uses threats against any person, or attempts to do so with intent to— (i) influence, delay, or prevent the testimony of any person in an official proceeding; ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Code of Conduct Act 2019 of the Habboon Defense Agency ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (ii) cause or induce any person to— (1) withhold testimony, or withhold a record, document, or other object, from an official proceeding; (2) alter, destroy, mutilate, or conceal evidence with intent to impair the integrity or availability of the evidence for use in an official proceeding; (3) evade legal process summoning that person to appear as a witness, or to produce a record, document, or other object, in an official proceeding; or (4) be absent from an official proceeding to which that person has been summoned by legal process; or (iii) prevent the communication by any person to a judge of the Agency of information relating to the commission or possible commission of an offense; shall be punished as provided in paragraph (3). (c) The punishment for an offense under this subsection is— (i) in the case of a potential felony charge or supporting testimony to a felony charge, they shall be fined under this title or terminated, or both. (ii) in any other case, they shall be fined under this title or suspended, or both. SEC. 207. PERJURY Whoever— (a) having taken an oath before a competent court, officer, or person, in any case in which a law of the Agency authorizes an oath to be administered, that he will testify, declare, depose, or certify truly, or that any written testimony, declaration, deposition, or certificate by him subscribed, is true, willfully and contrary to such oath states or subscribes any material matter which he does not believe to be true; or (b) in any declaration, certificate, verification, or statement under penalty of perjury willfully subscribes as true any material matter which he does not believe to be true; is guilty of perjury and shall, except as otherwise expressly provided by law, be fined under this title or suspended, or both. (c) procures another to commit any perjury is guilty of subornation of perjury, and shall be fined under this title or demoted, or both. (d) under oath (or in any declaration, certificate, verification, or statement under penalty of perjury) in any proceeding before or ancillary to any court of the Agency knowingly makes any false material declaration or makes or uses any other information, including any document, record, recording, or other material, knowing the same to contain any false material declaration, shall be fined under this title or suspended, or both. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Code of Conduct Act 2019 of the Habboon Defense Agency ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SEC. 208. AVOIDING PROSECUTION (a) Whoever makes oneself unavailable or unreachable to Employees of the Agency or Officers of the Court with intent either (1) to avoid prosecution for a crime, or an attempt to commit a crime, or (2) to avoid giving testimony in any criminal proceedings, or (3) to avoid service of, (b) or contempt proceedings for alleged disobedience of lawful process requiring attendance, shall be fined under this title or terminated, or both. TITLE III - FRAUD, DISHONESTY AND CONFLICTS OF INTEREST SEC. 301. CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT OFFENSE OR TO DEFRAUD THE AGENCY (a) If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the Agency, or to defraud the Agency, in any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each shall be fined under this title or terminated, or both. (b) If, however, the offense, the commission of which is the object of the conspiracy, is a misdemeanor only, the punishment for such conspiracy shall not exceed the maximum punishment provided for such misdemeanor. SEC. 302. FALSE PERSONATION (a) Whoever falsely assumes or pretends to be an employee acting under the authority of the Agency or any Unit thereof, and acts as such, or in such pretended character demands or obtains any money, document, or thing of value, shall be fined under this title or suspended, or both. (b) Whoever falsely represents himself to be an officer of a court of the Agency, and in such assumed character charges any person, shall be fined under this title or demoted, or both. (c) Whoever, with intent to defraud within the Agency, falsely assumes or pretends to be an agent of alien establishment duly accredited as such to the Agency and acts as such, or in such pretended character, demands or obtains or attempts to obtain any money, document, or other thing of value, shall be fined under this title or banned, or both. (d) Whoever, knowingly and with intent to defraud the Agency, or any Unit thereof, possesses any false, altered, forged, or counterfeited writing or document for the purpose of enabling another to obtain from the Agency, or from any Unit, or officer thereof, any document, sum of credits, or thing of value, shall be fined under this title or suspended, or both. SEC. 303. BRIBERY (a) Whoever— (i) directly or indirectly, corruptly gives, offers or promises anything of value to any person who has been selected to appear in an official proceeding, or offers or ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Code of Conduct Act 2019 of the Habboon Defense Agency ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ promises any person who has been selected to appear in an official proceeding to give anything of value to any other person or entity, with intent— (1) to influence any official act; or (2) to influence such person who has been selected to appear in an official proceeding to commit or aid in committing, or collude in, or allow, any fraud, or make opportunity for the commission of any fraud, on the Agency; (3) to induce such person who has been selected to appear in an official proceeding to do or omit to do any act in violation of the lawful duty of such official or person; shall be fined under this title or terminated, or both. (ii) being a person who has been selected to appear in an official proceeding directly or indirectly, corruptly demands, seeks, receives, accepts, or agrees to receive or accept anything of value personally or for any other person or entity, in return for: (1) being influenced in the performance of any official act; (2) being influenced to commit or aid in committing, or to collude in, or allow, any fraud, or make opportunity for the commission of any fraud, on the Agency; or (3) being induced to do or omit to do any act in violation of the official duty of such official or person; shall be fined under this title or terminated, or both. SEC. 304. EXTORTION (a) Whoever, being an employee of the Agency, under color or pretense of office or employment commits or attempts an act of extortion, shall be fined under this title or suspended, or both. (b) Whoever, under threat of informing, or as a consideration for not informing, against any violation of any law of the Agency, demands or receives any credits or other valuable thing, shall be fined under this title or demoted, or both. SEC. 305. RECUSAL (a) Any judge of the Agency shall disqualify oneself in any proceeding in which one’s impartiality might reasonably be questioned. (b) One shall also disqualify oneself in the following circumstances: (i) Where one has a personal bias or prejudice concerning a party, or personal knowledge of disputed evidentiary facts concerning the proceeding; (ii) Where one served as lawyer in the matter in controversy; ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Code of Conduct Act 2019 of the Habboon Defense Agency ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (iii) Where he has participated as counsel, adviser or witness in the proceeding or expressed an opinion concerning the merits of the particular case in controversy; (c) “proceeding” includes pretrial, trial, appellate review, or other stages of litigation. TITLE IV - OFFENSES AGAINST THE PERSON, PROPERTY AND THE PEACE SEC. 401. TRANSPORTING OR DISTRIBUTING OBSCENE OR CRIME INCITING MATTER (a) Whoever knowingly produces with the intent to transport, distribute, or transmit for the purpose of sale or distribution of any obscene, lewd, lascivious, or filthy picture, film,writing, drawing, figure, image, or other article capable of producing sound or any other matter of indecent or immoral character, shall be fined under this title or terminated, or both. (b) The distribution as aforesaid of two or more copies of any publication or two or more of any article of the character described above, or a combined total of five such publications and articles, shall create a presumption that such publications or articles are intended for sale or distribution, but such presumption shall be rebuttable. (c) Whoever is engaged in the business of producing with intent to distribute or sell, or selling or transferring obscene matter, who knowingly receives or possesses with intent to distribute any obscene picture, film, or audio recording, which has been distributed, shall be punished by suspension by a fine under this title, or both. (d) Whoever, knowingly transfers obscene matter to another individual who has not attained the age of 16 years, knowing that such other individual has not attained the age of 16 years, or attempts to do so, shall be fined under this title, terminated, or both. SEC. 402. SEXUAL ABUSE Whoever knowingly, (a) causes another person to engage in a sexual act by threatening or placing that other person in fear; or (b) engages in a sexual act with another person if that other person is— (i) incapable of appraising the nature of the conduct; or (ii) physically incapable of declining participation in, or communicating unwillingness to engage in, that sexual act; or attempts to do so, shall be fined under this title and terminated, or both. (c) engages in a sexual act with another person who— (i) has attained the age of 12 years but has not attained the age of 16 years; and ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Code of Conduct Act 2019 of the Habboon Defense Agency ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (ii) is at least four years younger than the person so engaging; (iii) or attempts to do so, shall be fined under this title, terminated, or both. SEC. 403. ASSAULT (a) In General .— verbally assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates, or interferes with any person while engaged in or on account of the performance of official duties; or shall, where the acts in violation of this section constitute only simple verbal assault, be fined under this title or demoted, or both, and where such acts involve intimidation, resistance, or hindering, be fined under this title or suspended, or both. (b) verbally assaults, intimidates, resists, opposes, impedes, or interferes with the lawful orders of any Employee of the Agency, shall, where the acts in violation of this section constitute only simple verbal assault, be fined under this title or striked, or both, and where such acts involve intimidation, resistance, or hindering, be fined under this title or demoted, or both. SEC. 404. CONSPIRACY AGAINST RIGHTS (a) Whoever conspires to oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the laws of the Agency, or because of his having so exercised the same; They shall be fined under this title or suspended or both; and if disregard of lawful orders is involved they shall be fined under this title or terminated or both. SEC. 405. HATE CRIME ACTS (a) In General .— (i) Offenses involving actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, belief, creed or other distinctive, or protected characteristic .— Whoever, whether or not acting under color of law, willfully abuses or attempts to abuse to any person, because of the actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, belief, creed or other distinctive, or protected characteristic — (1) shall be suspended, fined in accordance with this title, or both; and (2) shall be terminated, fined in accordance with this title, or both, if — a) administrative action result from the offense. (b) Whoever directly or indirectly deprives, attempts to deprive, or threatens to deprive any person of any employment, position, or other benefit provided for or made possible in whole or in part by any Law of the Agency, on account of political affiliation, race, color, religion, ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Code of Conduct Act 2019 of the Habboon Defense Agency ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ national origin, sexual orientation, belief, creed or other distinctive, or protected characteristics, shall be fined under this title, or terminated, or both. SEC. 406. WRONGFUL ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION (a) Whoever attempts or succeeds in wrongfully imposing an administrative action on another Employee shall be fined under this title and; (i) suspended if the offense is committed knowingly; or (ii) demoted if the offense is committed unintentionally yet involves disregard of orders; or (iii) striked if the offense is committed unintentionally. (b) Paragraph (a) of this section shall not apply to promotions if those are given on an ex post facto basis and are