{"actors":["Residents subject to heat-emergency measures","Community organizations serving older adults, unhoused residents, tenants, and outdoor workers","Municipal emergency-management, public-health, housing, procurement, and information-governance staff","The mayor and designated emergency officials","The city council and its legislative counsel","The municipal inspector general and courts exercising their existing review authority"],"affected_objective":"A launchable permanent heat-emergency governance code that preserves rapid alerts, cooling-site activation, interagency coordination, and public accountability without converting a bounded successor into an indeterminate grant of general crisis authority.","arm":"ORDINARY_DIVERSE_P2","authority_safety":{"authorized_first_step":"City legislative counsel, assisted by the inspector general's policy staff, may conduct a 21-day read-only inventory of the temporary heat orders, after-action records, draft successor provisions, and existing statutory authorities, then submit a nonbinding constraint-function and authority-module ledger to the city council.","decision_authority":"Only the city council may enact, stage, or reject successor authorities; the mayor and agencies retain only powers already granted by law, while courts and the inspector general retain their existing review and oversight roles.","excluded_actions":["Extending, creating, or exercising emergency powers during the evidence step","Changing evacuation, entry, curfew, enforcement, procurement, surveillance, data-sharing, or public-health authority without ordinary legal authorization","Treating an operational preference as a legal necessity or treating a parked module as enacted authority","Reducing notice, accessibility, nondiscrimination, records, privacy, legislative-review, or judicial-review safeguards to satisfy the complexity budget","Using the inventory to assess individual residents, vendors, employees, or enforcement matters","Allowing an executive official to activate a successor module before its lawful enactment and stated commencement conditions"],"halt_rollback":"Halt the inventory if it begins directing live emergency operations, obscures the legal source of a proposed power, or classifies a mandatory safeguard as deferrable. Withdraw the draft ledger, preserve existing law and ordinary legislative procedures, and require independent municipal-law review before restarting."},"baseline":"Continue drafting one comprehensive permanent resilience ordinance in which heat-response continuity, general emergency delegation, expedited procurement, property access, evacuation, public-health orders, data sharing, mutual aid, enforcement, and future hazard provisions are negotiated as a single interdependent package.","candidate_id":"second_system_complexity_restraint__law_governance__ORDINARY_DIVERSE_P2","causal_chain":["A temporary heat-emergency order establishes a bounded operating capability for alerts, cooling-site activation, transportation coordination, welfare checks, and public reporting under narrow hazard, duration, and authority limits.","The city treats that experience as authorization to create a permanent successor with broader funding, standing staff, and fewer temporal constraints.","Agencies and elected officials attach postponed requests for procurement flexibility, cross-agency data access, property entry, evacuation, enforcement, mutual aid, and all-hazards authority to the successor project.","Because the requests alter different legal powers, triggers, affected populations, oversight relationships, and termination rules, their combination multiplies delegation and accountability interfaces rather than merely lengthening the ordinance.","Negotiation becomes organized around preserving a comprehensive bargain, making it difficult to enact the bounded heat-response capability unless agreement is also reached on remote or contested authorities.","A constraint-function inventory identifies which pilot limits protected intelligible triggers, short chains of command, reviewable exercises of power, and automatic termination, and specifies deliberate replacements for any released limit.","A core statutory module preserves only the heat-response functions selected for the successor, while each additional power is placed in a severable authority module with its own legal basis, trigger, safeguards, operational dependencies, and commencement test.","An authority-complexity budget and admission review prevent cumulative delegations, exceptions, data flows, oversight duties, and actor interfaces from exceeding what can be enacted, implemented, and reviewed as one tier.","Deferred modules remain on a public review schedule with named reopening conditions, allowing the core code to commence without implying approval or permanent rejection of broader emergency powers.","The council can consider a bounded successor while retaining ordinary law as the fallback and reserving broader authority for separately reviewable later decisions."],"cell_id":"second_system_complexity_restraint__law_governance","consequence":"The permanent code may remain unenacted or become difficult to interpret, oversee, terminate, and review because preservation of the bounded heat-response capability is made contingent on resolving a much broader allocation of emergency power.","diversity_from_prior_proposals":"This opportunity targets legislative allocation and staged commencement of municipal emergency powers after a bounded heat-response order, with constitutional accountability interfaces as the affected problem and severable authority modules as the intervention.","experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp13_second_slot_policy60_20260806","intervention":"Adopt a Severable Emergency-Authority Module Protocol for drafting the permanent heat-response code. The council first records how the temporary order's hazard, duration, actor, and power limits supported speed, intelligibility, oversight, and termination. It then states a core successor contract limited to selected heat alerts, cooling-site activation, transportation coordination, welfare-check coordination, and public reporting. Every proposed additional power must occupy a separate severable module naming its legal source, activation trigger, affected rights, agency interfaces, data uses, safeguards, termination rule, review route, operating cost, and effect on core commencement. A cumulative authority-complexity budget caps the launch tier. Non-core modules receive public later-review triggers, and none commence until the core has passed legal-operability and accountability review. A reversion clause leaves ordinary statutory authority in place if the core or any later module is invalidated, suspended, or allowed to expire.","mechanism_mapping":[{"counterfactual_removal":"Without the inventory, the temporary order's narrow hazard, duration, and authority limits can be discarded as inconveniences without replacing their focusing, oversight, and termination functions.","mechanism_slug":"constraint_release_inventory","role":"Records each predecessor limit, the operational burden it created, the governance function it served, and whether that function will be retained, replaced, or released."},{"counterfactual_removal":"Without a fixed core contract, broader crisis authorities can be described as indispensable to preserving the predecessor's heat-response capability.","mechanism_slug":"successor_charter","role":"Defines the heat-response functions and legal safeguards that constitute the launch-tier successor, along with module boundaries and lawful decision authority."},{"counterfactual_removal":"Without severable work classes, contested delegations can become drafting dependencies of routine alerts, cooling operations, or reporting.","mechanism_slug":"rewrite_scope_firewall","role":"Separates core continuity, mandatory safeguards, operational repair, evidenced improvement, and proposed new powers into legally distinct drafting lanes."},{"counterfactual_removal":"Without comparable admission questions, a proposed power can enter the launch tier because of sponsor influence or an unspecified future emergency.","mechanism_slug":"feature_admission_rubric","role":"Requires each authority module to disclose legal basis, present value, activation conditions, rights effects, coupling, maintenance and oversight burdens, validation need, and tier fit."},{"counterfactual_removal":"Without cumulative accounting, individually bounded modules can jointly create an unmanageable network of delegations, exceptions, data exchanges, reporting duties, and review paths.","mechanism_slug":"complexity_budget_review","role":"Caps the launch tier's combined delegated powers, activation tests, agency interfaces, resident obligations, data flows, exceptions, oversight duties, and implementation demands."},{"counterfactual_removal":"Without a legitimate later route, sponsors have incentives to make broader powers conditions of enacting the core ordinance.","mechanism_slug":"staged_release_ladder","role":"Assigns deferred modules to later legislative tiers with named sponsors, evidence questions, dependencies, and reopening conditions."},{"counterfactual_removal":"Without conditional commencement, the city could activate broader authority before showing that the bounded core can operate with intelligible triggers, records, oversight, and termination.","mechanism_slug":"parity_then_expansion_gate","role":"Allows the core to commence independently and requires separate enactment plus stated legal-operability and accountability findings before a later authority module takes effect."}],"nearest_rivals":["Ordinary emergency-powers sunset clauses, which terminate authority but do not separate a post-pilot ambition stockpile into a bounded successor and later modules","Separation-of-powers review, which examines allocations of authority but does not itself preserve predecessor constraint functions or protect successor launchability","Modular legislative drafting, which makes provisions severable but need not impose an ambition-admission burden, cumulative complexity budget, or staged reopening path","All-hazards planning, which seeks reusable emergency capacity and can favor broader integration without testing whether generality belongs in the immediate successor"],"negative_tests":{"intervention_falsifier":"The intervention is undermined if independent reviewers cannot consistently distinguish core continuity from new authority, severability does not reduce dependencies blocking enactment of the core, or proposed powers repeatedly bypass module commencement conditions without recorded council findings.","problem_falsifier":"The diagnosis is false if the draft contains no predecessor-generated stockpile of postponed powers, the temporary order's constraints supplied no material focusing or accountability function, or current law makes the proposed authorities legally and operationally inseparable from the core heat response.","risks":["Officials could label consequential coercive powers as core continuity to avoid separate scrutiny.","Fragmented modules could create conflicting definitions, triggers, records duties, or chains of command.","A complexity budget could undercount rights burdens that are difficult to express in common units.","Deferral could leave a necessary authority unresolved if reopening conditions are vague or no institution owns review.","Repeated temporary measures could become a substitute for completing ordinary legislation.","The reversion clause could create operational uncertainty if notices and authority maps do not clearly identify which provisions remain effective."],"strongest_counterevidence":"A unified successor may be necessary if existing constitutional or statutory rules, mutual-aid commitments, funding conditions, or operational dependencies require the heat-response functions and broader emergency authorities to operate through one indivisible legal framework."},"next_evidence_step":"For the proposed municipal code, legislative counsel and an inspector-general policy reviewer independently classify every draft section and open request as core continuity, mandatory safeguard, repair, validated improvement, new authority, or parked ambition. Over 21 days, they reconstruct the function of each temporary-order constraint, diagram legal and operational dependencies among modules, and apply a provisional authority-complexity ledger. They report classification disagreements, uncited powers, safeguards treated as optional, dependencies that defeat severability, and whether the core can stand under existing law. No ordinance, emergency order, agency procedure, or live operation is changed.","observable_state":"The legislative working draft combines permanent heat alerts and cooling-center coordination with proposals concerning emergency procurement, resident data exchange, property entry, evacuation, enforcement, mutual aid, public-health directives, and future non-heat hazards. Sections share definitions, activation clauses, delegations, exceptions, and reporting provisions, while the drafting record does not identify a self-standing core, cumulative oversight load, module-specific termination conditions, or a route for enacting the heat-response successor before agreement on the broader powers.","prior_art_status":"UNSEARCHED","problem":"A city is converting a narrow temporary heat-emergency order into permanent legislation after the order established a usable coordination model under strict hazard, duration, actor, and power limits. The successor project receives standing resources and becomes the vehicle for postponed proposals involving procurement, data sharing, property access, evacuation, enforcement, mutual aid, public-health authority, and other hazards. Bundling those distinct delegations into one comprehensive ordinance makes the established heat-response capability dependent on resolving a larger redesign of executive power, legislative oversight, resident safeguards, and judicial review.","proposal_index":2,"remaining_contrastive_claim":"The testable claim is that, after a bounded emergency-governance predecessor, preserving the core response in an independently commencing statute and requiring each new power to satisfy a module-specific and cumulative authority gate will expose avoidable legal dependencies and permit a more determinate successor decision than negotiating all deferred powers as one package.","revision_record":{"claim_changes":["Initial version; no prior claims revised."],"conceptual_changes":["Initial mapping of second-system complexity restraint to permanent municipal emergency-powers legislation using severable authority modules and conditional commencement."],"evidence_changes":["No empirical evidence, prevalence, novelty, demand, or effect-size claim is made; prior art remains unsearched."],"operational_changes":["The initial evidence step is limited to read-only legal classification and dependency analysis, with no change to legislation or emergency operations."],"parent_version":null,"progress_targets_addressed":["Materially distinct law-and-governance problem centered on emergency-power allocation","Successor temporal structure with explicit predecessor constraint memory","Severable intervention with cumulative complexity control and staged ambition path","Explicit authority, excluded actions, halt condition, and legal reversion path","Problem and intervention falsifiers plus a bounded evidence step"]},"schema_version":1,"structural_mapping":[{"archetype_element":"Constrained successful predecessor","domain_realization":"The temporary heat-emergency order, bounded by a single hazard, short duration, named officials, limited powers, and automatic expiration."},{"archetype_element":"Released constraints after authorization","domain_realization":"Permanent legislative authority, standing resources, broader agency participation, and pressure to prepare for additional emergencies."},{"archetype_element":"Deferred ambition stockpile","domain_realization":"Postponed proposals for procurement flexibility, data exchange, property access, evacuation, enforcement, mutual aid, public-health directives, and all-hazards coverage."},{"archetype_element":"Successor core contract","domain_realization":"A permanent but bounded heat-response module preserving selected alerts, cooling-site activation, transportation coordination, welfare-check coordination, public records, safeguards, and termination rules."},{"archetype_element":"Preserved constraint functions","domain_realization":"Hazard, duration, actor, and power limits are retained or replaced by explicit activation, severability, oversight, reporting, and expiration controls."},{"archetype_element":"Ambition triage gate","domain_realization":"Each proposed additional authority must identify its legal source, present use, trigger, rights effect, coupling, safeguards, review route, and commencement justification."},{"archetype_element":"Complexity-and-scope budget","domain_realization":"A launch-tier cap across delegated powers, activation standards, agency interfaces, resident duties, data flows, exceptions, oversight obligations, and implementation demands."},{"archetype_element":"Staged release ladder and deferred path","domain_realization":"The core ordinance, later authority modules, and a public deferred-module docket with sponsors, evidence questions, and reopening conditions."},{"archetype_element":"Launchability invariant and escape path","domain_realization":"Independent commencement of the bounded core, module-specific legal-operability review, severability, and reversion to ordinary statutory authority if a provision fails or expires."}],"title":"Severable Authority Modules for a Permanent Municipal Heat-Emergency Code","version":0}