Book III

The imperial legal corpus

Codes in force, the technical standards that carry their measurable detail, the official templates they create, and the law still reserved for drafting.

Codes in force

Binding law

• In force · General code

  General Imperial Equid Welfare Code

  The principal welfare instrument of the Empire, covering equids in every setting rather than one line of work.

• In force · Sectoral code

  Imperial Code for the Welfare of Working Carriage Equids

  Carriage welfare in full: passports, certification, workload and rest, weather burden, route safety, harness, headgear mounts, road-status inserts, lighting, ground-guidance lamps, emergency medical carriages, enforcement, offenses and interim schedules.

• In force · Sectoral code

  Imperial Tack, Restraint, and Welfare Code

  Equipment placed on the animal, and the limits on restraint. The Empire’s bitless-only welfare principle is stated here.

• In force · Sectoral code

  Imperial Road and Driver Code

  Conduct on public roads and the duties of drivers, with the universal requirement that every equid entering a public road displays its road status. Its Chapter XI also fixes the national transport structure: the public road network is a non-motor road system, motor road vehicles are prohibited outside the narrow Hrossaway freight exception, mechanized public land transport is limited to long-distance high-speed electric mainline rail — no metro, underground, tramway, suburban commuter, light or local rapid-transit rail, and no diesel or steam service — and no level crossing, road-running rail or shared tramway surface is permitted.

• In force · Sectoral code

  Imperial Mounted Service and Road Patrol Code

  Binding law for mounted police, the mounted Road Guard, ridden couriers and patrol equids — ridden service, which is not carriage work and is governed separately. Its status is mixed and the archive is not consistent about it: twenty-one articles on certification, command, selection, training, tack, shift limits, rest days, climate bands, traffic and crowd duties, emergency response, facilities, records, inspection, offenses and appeals are in force, while the same document separately lists ten chapters, from Application and Definitions to Enforcement, Records, Offenses and Appeals, as reserved for later drafting.

Technical standards

Thresholds, dimensions, colors and testing

• In force · Standard

  Imperial Public-Road Equid Status Marking Standard

  The universal marking rule for every equid on a public road. Status is shown by an interchangeable insert held in a marker-bearing frentera or muserola, road-grade retroreflective and self-illuminating in its assigned color. No paint, dye, clipping, branding, glue or coat alteration is permitted.

• In force · Standard

  Imperial Service Equid Selection and Breed Standard

  Selection for police, ambulance, taxi, courier, veterinary, fire, military and sovereign service. Endurance, recovery, road courage, temperament, traffic sanity and lawful bitless control decide fitness — not breed label or fashion. Individual certification overrides breed label.

• In force · Standard

  Imperial Equine Climatic Burden Standard

  Weather, humidity, wetness, cold, heat, wind, footing and suspension levels, expressed as burden thresholds.

• In force · Standard

  Imperial Carriage Lighting and Signaling Standard

  Carriage lamps, emergency warnings, illuminated road-status markers and equid ground-guidance lamps.

• In force · Standard

  Imperial Emergency Medical Carriage Technical Standard

  Ambulance speed, low jostle, suspension, emergency lanes, glideways and testing.

• In force · Standard

  Imperial Law Formatting Standard and Example

  The binding drafting format of every imperial legal document: A4 page and margin dimensions, Arial body text, the Title, Chapter, Article and subordinate-heading hierarchy, lists, tables, forms, prohibited formatting and a model code extract. The Tack, Restraint and Welfare Code is its controlling model, and it applies to an instrument even where that instrument is short, technical, administrative or stored outside the law archive — as this Standard itself is.

• In force · Schedule

  Imperial Tack Measurement Schedule

  Measurement procedure and permitted values supporting the Tack, Restraint and Welfare Code.

Official templates

Forms issued by the Empire

• In force · Template

  Imperial Working Equid Passport Template

  The identity document carried for every working equid.

• In force · Template

  Imperial Carriage Equid Road and Work Certificate Template

  Certification of fitness for road and carriage work.

Reserved for drafting

Decided in principle, not yet written

• Planned · Infrastructure

  Road authority and infrastructure law

  Construction, maintenance and control of the public road network, separated from the welfare codes that use it.

• Planned · Livery

  Livery and service dress standard

  Design of service livery, currently held outside the welfare codes.

• Planned · Registry

  Imperial Breeding and Registry Code

  Breeding practice and the imperial registry. A document of this title exists in the law archive, but it is a title with no text, so nothing is in force under it; this register previously listed it among the codes in force, which was wrong. The archive does not yet record what its content is to be.

• Planned · Criminal law

  Imperial Criminal Code

  Reserved by the archive to define intent, attempt, conspiracy, corporate and command responsibility, evidentiary standards, jurisdiction, due process, appeals and severe non-lethal sentencing — among other things for horse slaughter, which is to be prohibited as the highest-grade equid-welfare criminal offense. Hrossagrið does not use the human death penalty.

• Planned · Public health

  Addiction and public health codes

  Named by the archive alongside the criminal, customs, education and police codes as the instruments with which the root-cause prevention doctrine for alcohol, nicotine, smoking and recreational drug use must later be reconciled. The archive expressly leaves the required rehabilitation program and the evidentiary standard for state medicine open.

• Planned · Medicines

  Pharmaceutical code

  Listed by the archive as a cross-code consequence still to be drafted: pharmaceutical approval and advertising law, controlled-medicine prescription tiers, emergency exceptions, and withdrawal and tapering standards.

• Planned · Borders

  Customs code

  Border and customs offenses, still to be drafted, including the rules distinguishing prohibited consumer products from legitimate medical, scientific, industrial, veterinary and evidentiary materials carried under specific authorization.

• Planned · Education

  Education code

  Reserved with the same group of codes. The archive also files here the redistribution of school, court, child-welfare, disability, occupational and forensic functions performed elsewhere by psychologists.

• Planned · Policing

  Police code

  Reserved with the same group of codes. The archive records the substance of police conduct toward peaceful prohibited assemblies — identification of the violation, a clear dispersal order, minimum non-injurious contact, a duty to intervene, recorded and public accountability — but states that the exact penalties remain to be drafted.

• Planned · Production standard

  Alcohol production standards

  Binding standards to define the permitted ingredients and composition of each alcoholic product while alcohol remains lawful during the gradual phase-out, so that a product made merely by diluting low-quality spirit with water does not qualify, with stated composition and a mandatory verifiable official regulatory mark on every bottle.

Note on this register. Titles and scope are drawn from the working corpus, and an instrument appears above as in force only where a document bearing that title exists in the law archive and carries text. Full texts are not yet published on this portal; they will be added instrument by instrument. The road-status standard is summarized in full under horses.

Full texts

Every instrument published in full

• General Imperial Equid Welfare Code
• Imperial Tack, Restraint, and Welfare Code
• Imperial Code for the Welfare of Working Carriage Equids
• Imperial Road and Driver Code
• Imperial Equine Climatic Burden Standard
• Imperial Public-Road Equid Status Marking Standard
• Imperial Emergency Medical Carriage Technical Standard
• Imperial Carriage Lighting and Signaling Standard
• Imperial Tack Measurement Schedule
• Imperial Service Equid Selection and Breed Standard
• Imperial Carriage Equid Road and Work Certificate Template
• Imperial Working Equid Passport Template