Quote from: LionOfNarnia on March 20, 2015, 05:19:08 PM

Quote from: BainbridgeJ on March 20, 2015, 05:14:05 PM

Quote from: kiklo on March 20, 2015, 04:54:31 AM

Zeit Research
Raffles

After a little more research, it turns out in the United Slaves of America,
it is illegal to host a raffle unless you are a Non-Profit organization or Church or
on Native American tribal land.

So do we have anyone in any countries or on tribal land that is unaffected by these ridiculous laws that could host the raffle if everything else checked out.

Cool

Edit: After even more research raffles would be out unless we have someone not restricted to host it.

It would seem that the Zeitknights fulfill the criteria of being a club, or non-profit organisation. They have a Constitution. A notion of what they can, or cannot do, even if it is at a rudimentary level. They have stated the membership requirements and hold regular meetings. All they need to do now is elect a Chairperson, a Secretary and a Treasurer to be formally constituted.

In the UK, and I would think other countries too, it would be easy to get a bank account in the Zeitknight name having satisfied these essentials. If a bank account is applied for, I would suggest any two signatories out of three trusted elected members of the Zeitknight fraternity to be the case. This might be a problem if the signatories live far apart from one-another. However, electronic signatures that could be attached to documents via email, might be lawful. I'm not sure how the law stands on this, but in the UK I know that email service of actions through the Courts are lawful.

The Zeitknights could easily assume the status of an artificial personality, a legal entity in the eyes of the law, just as business companies and other organisations do.

Therefore, if the Zeitknights are a non-profit organisation, then holding a raffle should be no problem.

That's a spliffing idea, Mr B Grin

As there are at least 3 UK based knights (me, thee & Varvarin) why don't we go for it?

We can discuss it at Sundays' Knight-session.

In the UK, the minimum legal requirement to form a company is two, so the Zeitknights in the UK are already there. I'm not actually a Zeitknight, but I will pop in at the Sunday session anyway, assuming that I can get my head around TeamViewer and anything else that might need to be done. It will be interesting to meet and speak with other Zeitcoinistas from around the world, in a different scenario from the usual words printed on a screen.