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Term limits

Term limits do not come into effect until the conditions for the existence of the delegate commission are satisfied. Terms begun when term limits are not in effect do not count towards term limits.

High officials

When term limits are in effect, each person may serve at most:

• 1 term (1 to 3 cycles) as Tribune, OR
• 1 term (4 cycles) as Judge, OR
• 1 term (4 cycles) as Chair, OR
• 3 terms (3 cycles) as Commissioner or Executive team member (or both)

The ORs above are exclusive. For example, an individual may not serve as Tribune and then later as Judge, or as Commissioner and then later as Judge; nor simultaineously as Tribune and Commissioner (although, as noted elsewhere, a Tribune may fulfill the roles of Judge and Chair while serving as Tribune). However, an individual may serve as Commissioner and then later as Executive team member, provided the total of those terms does not exceed 3.

While a single voter possesses more than 1/P of the votes, the delegate commissioner(s) supported solely by the votes of that voter are exempt from term limits, and terms served in this manner do not count towards that commissioner's limit.

Lower delegates

When term limits are in effect, delegates in the delegate pyramid, who are not commissioners, may serve at most (2*levels) terms as delegates (their terms as delegates, on every level, are summed and compared to this number), where levels is the number of levels in the delegate pyramids as defined as in here.

Serving as a lower delegate does not prevent one from or affect one's limits for serving as a high offical, and vice versa.