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 Pink added import for Countries (not needed in BE-91)

This was due to prior work that was later moved to other modules e.g. GovernmentEntities.rdf

add LEIEligibleEntity as a subClassOf AutonomousAgent,

add label: "LEI eligible entity"

add skos:definition: "a legally distinct entity that is eligible to receive a legal entity identifier because it engages in financial transactions and associated reference data "

add adaptedFrom: "ISO 17442, Financial services - Legal Entity Identifier (LEI), first edition, 2012-06-01, section 3.1"

add example: "Examples of eligible legal entities include, without limitation:

- all financial intermediaries;
- banks and finance companies;
- all entities that issue equity, debt or other securities for other capital structures;
- all entities listed on an exchange;
- all entities that trade stock or debt, investment vehicles, including mutual funds, pension funds and alternative investment vehicles constituted as corporate entities or collective investment agreements (including umbrella funds as well as funds under an umbrella structure, hedge funds, private equity funds, etc.);
- all entities under the purview of a financial regulator and their affiliates, subsidiaries and holding companies;
- counterparties to financial transactions."

add explanatoryNote: "The term Legal Entity is specific to the banking use of the term required for compliance with the Legal Entity Identifier initiatives and does not pertain to the more abstract jurisprudence concept of legal entity."

add editorialNote: "LEIEligibleEntities are eligible to obtain an LEI but may or may not have one assigned. Also, entities that have some kind of registered address are eligible for an LEI."

add scopeNote: "The term 'legal entities' includes, but is not limited to, unique parties that are legally or financially responsible for the performance of financial transactions or have the legal right in their jurisdiction to enter independently into legal contracts, regardless of whether they are incorporated or constituted in some other way (e.g. trust, partnership, contractual). It excludes natural persons, but includes governmental organizations and supranationals."

add restriction: hasLegalEntityIdentifier max 1 LegalEntityIdentifier 

add restriction: isIdentifiedBy only Identifier

add restriction: hasAddressOfLegalFormation exactly 1 RegisteredAddress.

note: Provide restriction isIdentifiedBy only Identifier to provide a meaningful constraint that identifies the "conceptual' range of the isIdentifiedBy restriction for LEIEligibleEntity.

This concept must be moved to be a subClassOf AutonomousAgent and renamed to be LEICapableEntity.  ContractuallyCapableEntity at one point was a relative thing, and then became an independent thing.  It was then more appropriately named to LEICapableEntity, since a LegalPerson is a contractually capable entity and we instead wanted to state that this class was for LEI capable entities. Change definition to better align with original yellow definition, which is "

A unique entity that is legally or financially responsible for the performance of financial transactions, or has the legal right in its jurisdiction to enter independently into legal contracts, regardless of whether it is incorporated or constituted in some other way (e.g. trust, partnership, contractual). This excludes natural persons, but includes governmental organizations and supranationals." 

Removed annotation reference to instrumentOf.

Note: in GovernmentEntities change objectProperty name to isInstrumentOf

PINK added RegionalGovernmentalEntity. Changed term to RegionalGovernment in GovernmentEntities.rdf. Note: FBC needs to be updated as it currently refers to RegionalGovernmentalEntity

BE-91 changed domain of hasAddressOfLegalFormation from LegalEntity to LEIEligibleEntity. The GLEIF requires LEIEligibleEntities to document the RegisteredAddress that is the address of legal formation.

Also introduce the restriction to LEICapableEntity: hasAddressOfLegalFormation max 1 RegisteredAddress

(See line 30)

Remove this circular dependency

*Merge with Corporations. This is an important improvement since the content of both modules refers to Corporations. The go-forward module will be named Corporations. Ensure that all downstream concepts that depend on these concepts will use the newly updated URI.

add this as a subClassOf GeneralStockCorporation. (which is being renamed to StockCorporation)

add this as a subClassOf ForProfitCorporation

add label: "profit corporation with limited shareholder liability"

add restriction: allowsLimitedLiabilityOn only (playsRole some Shareholder)

add adaptedFrom: http://biztaxlaw.about.com/od/glossarys/g/stockcorp.htm

add adaptedFrom: http://www.oecd.org/daf/ca/CorporateGovernanceFactbook.pdf

add skos:definition: "a for-profit corporation which has shareholders (stockholders), each of whom receives a portion of the ownership of the corporation through shares of stock"

add explanatoryNote: "The restrictions defined herein extend the definition of incorporated company to link it to external entities that hold shares in it."

add explanatoryNote: "The shares in a stock corporation may receive a return on their investment in the form of dividends. Shares are used for voting on matters of corporate policy or to elect directors, at the corporation's annual meeting and at other meetings of the corporation."

E Changes are needed to eliminate circular dependencies with OwnershipParties. Move the declaration of Shareholder to CorporateBodies from CorporateOwnership. (see line 186)

Remove subClassOf relationship to fibo-be-oac-opty:ConstitutionalOwner in CorporateBodies, but instead create that relationship within OwnershipParties. Keep subClassOf relationship to TransferableContractHolder.

Also move the following restriction from CorporateBodies to OwnershipParties: fibo-fnd-pty-rl:isPlayedBy some ((fibo-be-oac-opty:holdsAnInterestIn only fibo-be-le-cb:ProfitCorporationWithLimitedShareholderLiability) or (fibo-be-oac-opty:holdsEquity only fibo-fnd-acc-aeq:StockholdersEquity))

E add skos:definition: "an individual, group, or organization that owns one or more shares in a company, and in whose name the share certificate is issued."

E add explanatoryNote:  "It is legal for a company to have only one shareholder. Also called (in the US) stockholder."

E add definitionOrigin: "http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/shareholder.html"

Rename this class to CorporationLimitedByGuarantee. Make this a subClassOf Corporation.

change label to "corporation limited by guarantee"

add the following restriction: allowsLimitedLiabilityOn only (playsRole some GuaranteeProvidingMember).

revise restriction: isGovernedBy min 0 BodyLimitedByGuaranteePrinciplesAgreement to isGovernedBy min 0 CorporationLimitedByGuaranteePrinciplesAgreement.

add skos:definition: "an incorporated entity without share capital, and in which the liability of its members is limited to the amount each one of them undertakes to contribute at the time the firm is wound up."

add adaptedFrom: "http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/company-limited-by-guarantee.html"

add editorialNote: "The profit motive is not the prime objective of the organization." See Git Commit d22b0a3.

Also, there is a circularity that needs to be resolved by moving the following restriction to OwnershipParties: fibo-be-le-lp:allowsLimitedLiabilityOn only (fibo-fnd-pty-rl:playsRole some fibo-be-oac-opty:GuaranteeProvidingMember)

Rename this class to CorporationLimitedByGuaranteePrincipalsAgreement.

change label: "corporation limited by guarantee princpals agreement"

change skos:definition: "the formal agreement between the principals of a corporation limited by guarantee."

Renamed to PrivateCompanyLimitedByGuarantee and moved to UKCorporateBodies since this is a unique legal form in the UK.

add adaptedFrom: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_company_limited_by_guarantee".

add skos:defintion: "an alternative type of corporation used primarily for non-profit organisations that require legal personality.

add explanatoryNote: "A company limited by guarantee does not usually have a share capital or shareholders, but instead has members who act as guarantors. The guarantors give an undertaking to contribute a nominal amount (typically very small) in the event of the winding up of the company."

add skos:explanatoryNote: " It is often believed that such a company cannot distribute its profits to its members but (depending on the provisions of the articles) this is not actually true.[2] Converting a limited company to a Community Interest Company (CIC) removes this doubt entirely, as CICs feature an asset lock which prevents the extraction of profits. However, a company limited by guarantee that distributes its profits to members (nor CICs) would not be eligible for charitable status."

Make Corporation a subClassOf LEIEligibleEntity, and (E) a subClassOf BusinessEntity.

(E) add restriction: allowsUnlimitedLiabilityOnEntity only Corporation.

modify restriction isDomiciledIn min 1Country to isDomiciledIn some Country.

(Dean will discuss this with Mike Uschold regarding stylistic convention)

(C) Change name to StockCorporation

(C) ensure label is: "stock corporation"

(C) add skos:definition: "a for-profit corporation which has shareholders (stockholders), each of whom receives a portion of the ownership of the corporation through shares of stock"

(C) add adaptedFrom: http://biztaxlaw.about.com/od/glossarys/g/stockcorp.htm

(C) ### (this will be inherited from ForProfitCorporation) add restriction: hasObjective some ProfitObjective ###

### (move restriction "isOwnedBy min 1 (playsRole only Shareholder)" to OwnershipParties.

This is needed to eliminate a circular dependency as well as be more conceptually aligned with the fact that ownership related restrictions should be modeled in OwnershipParties. In OwnershipParties refer back to GeneralStockCorporation. )### Don't we need this restriction to define a StockCorporation? efk - NO, the only required restriction here is ahtat it issues equity.

(C) add restriction: issuesEquity min 1 IssuedEquity

BE-111 (partial)

BE-112

FIBOBE-_11 (partial)

FIBOBE-_12

Make this a subClassOf NonProfitOrganization and Corporation

change label to "not for profit corporation"

add disjoint relation to ForProfitCorporation

add this as a subClassOf GeneralStockCorporation (which is being renamed to StockCorporation) and ForProfitCorporation

add label: "profit corporation with unlimited shareholder liability"

add skos:definition: "a corporation with unlimited liability for the shareholders."

add restriction: allowsUnlimitedLiabilityOn only (playsRole some Shareholder)

add skos:definitionOrigin: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/joint-stock-company.html

Add this as a subClassOf: Corporation.

add label: "statutory corporation"

add skos:definition: "a corporation created by statute."

add explanatoryNote: "Their precise nature varies by jurisdiction thus they might be ordinary companies/corporations owned by a government with or without other shareholders, or they might be a body without shareholders which is controlled by national or sub-national government to the (in some cases minimal) extent provided for in the creating legislation."

add definitionOrigin: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statutory_corporation#United_States"

change name of term to JuridicalPersonLimitedPartner because limited partners can be broader in scope than corporations. For example, an LLC or another type of entity can be a limited partner.

change label to "juridical person limited partner"

ensure this is a subClassOf LimitedPartner

change skos:definition to: "a limited partner in a partnership, who is and may only be a type of legal entity e.g. corporation, partnership, trust, private limited company etc. (i.e., not a natural person)"

change restriction: hasIdentity exactly 1Corporation to hasIdentity exactly 1 JuridicalPerson

ensure this is disjoint with LegallyCapablePersonLimitedPartner

change restriction hasIdentity exactly 1 NaturalPerson to hasIdentity exactly 1 LegalPerson because an entity can also be a general partner as well as a LegallyCapablePerson

move restriction: isPlayedBy some (hasCapacity only UnlimitedLiability) to UnlimitedLiabilityGeneralPartner which is a subClassOf GeneralPartner in order to convey the notion that there are two kinds of general partners. Most experience unlimited liability. A new form of general partnership the LimitedLiabilityGeneralPartner allows for limited liability for a general partner

add skos:adaptedFrom: http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/general+partner

ensure skos:definition is still: "a partner in a partnership, who holds some part of the general partner equity and typically is jointly and severally liable with the other partners for the liabilities incurred by that partnership"

ensure explanatoryNote is: "NYPL Article 8-A, Section 121-101 (f) and (g) defines general and limited partners as "persons" admitted to a limited partnership in accordance with the partnership agreement. Section 121-101 (n) further defines that corporations are considered "persons". Corporations can therefore be both limited and general partners. The Uniform Limited Partnership Act (Section 102-15) as well as laws of other states confirm that corporations can serve as general and limited partners (e.g. 6 Del. Laws Section 15-101 (16)). IIn the following cases, corporations served as general partners in a partnership: Whitley v. Klauber, 51 N.Y.2d 555; Larson v. Commissioner, 1976 U.S. Tax Ct. LEXIS 118 (T.C. 1976); Dirienzo v. Lichtenstein, 2013 Del. Ch. LEXIS 242 (Del. Ch. Sept. 30, 2013)."

ensure GeneralPartner is disjoint with LimitedPartner

add this concept as a subClassOf PartnershipWithGeneralPartners

add label "general partnership"

add restriction: hasMember min 2 GeneralPartner

add skos:definition: "a partnership in which the partners are jointly and severally liable for liabilities incurred by the entity"

add adaptedFrom: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/generalpartnership.asp

change name of class to LegallyCapablePersonLimitedPartner

change label to "legally capable person limited partner"

change skos:definition to "a limited partner in a partnership, who is and may only be a LegallyCapable Person i.e. a human being."

change restriction from hasIdentity exactly 1 NaturalPerson to hasIdentity exactly 1 LegallyCapablePerson

ensure this is disjoint with JuridicalPersonLimitedPartner

add LimitedLiabilityGeneralPartner as a subClassOf GeneralPartner

add label "limited liability general partner"

add restriction: isPlayedBy some (hasCapacity only LimitedLiability)

add skos:definition: "a class of general partner who has limited liability per the terms of the limited liability limited partnership agreement,"

show this is disjoint with UnlimitedLiabilityGeneralPartner

add restriction: isPlayedBy some (hasCapacity only LimitedLiability)

ensure LimitedPartner is disjoint with GeneralPartner

add LimitedPartnership as a subClassOf PartnershipWithGeneralPartners and as a subClassOf PartnershipWithLimitedPartners

add label: "limited partnership"

add skos:definition: "a form of partnership similar to a general partnership, except that in addition to one or more general partners (GPs), there are one or more limited partners (LPs).

add explanatoryNote: "It is a partnership in which only one partner is required to be a general partner."

add definitionOrigin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_partnership

add subClassOf relation to BusinessEntity and add subClassOf LEICapableEntity

change name of subClassOf relation to FormallyConstitutedOrganization to ContractuallyConstitutedOrganization

E add restriction: allowsUnlimitedLiabilityOnEntity only Partnership

E change skos:definition to : "a business organization in which two or more individuals manage and operate the business."

E add explanatoryNote: "Both owners are equally and personally liable for the debts from the business."

E change definitionOrigin: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/partnership.asp

ensure label is "partnership with general partners"

add restriction: allowsUnlimitedLiabilityOn only (playsRole some GeneralPartner)

add restriction: allowsUnlimitedLiabilityOn min 1 

change restriction: hasMember min 2 GeneralPartner to hasMember min 1 GeneralPartner

change skos:definition: an arrangement by which partners conducting a business jointly have unlimited liability, which means their personal assets are liable to the partnership's obligations.

add definitionOrigin: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/generalpartnership.asp

change editorialNote: "The partnership may or may not also have limited partners. In a typical non-incorporated partnership, it does not. General partners of a partnership may be legally capable persons or juridical persons."

add explanatoryNote: "In the commercial and legal parlance of most countries, a general partnership (the basic form of partnership under common law), refers to an association of natural persons or juridical persons with the following major features: Created by agreement, proof of existence and estoppel. The owners are all joint and severally liable for any legal actions and debts the company may face. It is a partnership in which partners share equally in both responsibility and liability."

remove this concept as it is no longer relevant

change name of PartnershipWithOnlyLimitedPartners to LimitedLiabilityPartnership

change label to "limited liability partnership"

add restriction: hasMember only LimitedPartner

change skos:definition: "is a partnership in which some or all partners (depending on the jurisdiction) have limited liabilities"

change adaptedFrom to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_liability_partnership

change explanatoryNote to: "In an LLP, one partner is not responsible or liable for another partner's misconduct or negligence."

change name of class to PartnershipWithLimitedLiabilityGeneralPartners

change label to "partnership with limited liability general partners"

change subClassOf to Partnership

add restriction: hasMember min 1 GeneralPartner

add restriction: allowsLimitedLiabilityOn some (playsRole some GeneralPartner)

change skos:definition to: "a partnership that has general partners, whose general partners have limited liability"

remove scopeNote because the scope note pertained to a specific jurisdiction and also made a statement that was not meaningful

add restriction: allowsLimitedLiabilityOn only (playsRole some LimitedPartner)

delete editorialNote as it does not add meaningful value

import CorporateBodies

import Ownership

import ControlParties

import OwnershipParties

add class PrivateCompanyWithLimitedLiability as a subClassOf BusinessEntity, ConstractuallyConstitutedOrganization, JuridicalPerson, LEICapableEntity

add label: "private company with limited liability"

add skos:definition: "a hybrid business entity having certain characteristics of both a corporation and a partnership or sole proprietorship (depending on how many owners there are)."

add adaptedFrom: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_liability_company#Overview"

add explanatoryNote: "A private company with limited liability, although a business entity, is not a corporation. The primary characteristic this legal form shares with a corporation is limited liability, and the primary characteristic it shares with a partnership is the availability of pass-through income taxation. It is often more flexible than a corporation, and it is well-suited for companies with a single owner."

add restriction: allowsLimitedLiabilityOn only (playsRole some EntityOwner)

add restriction: allowsUnlimitedLiabilityOnEntity only PrivateCompanyWithLimitedLiability

create subdirectory under /be called PrivateLimitedCompanies

create file PrivateLimitedCompanies.rdf and within file:

add Ontology IRI: http://spec.edmcouncil.org/fibo/BE/PrivateLimitedCompanies/PrivateLimitedCompanies/

add Ontology Version IRI: http://spec.edmcouncil.org/fibo/BE/20160201/PrivateLimitedCompanies/PrivateLimitedCompanies/

add fileAbbreviation: fibo-be-plc-plc

add dependsOn: http://spec.edmcouncil.org/fibo/BE/LegalEntities/LegalPersons/

add changeNote: "The http://spec.edmcouncil.org/fibo/BE/20160201/PrivateLimitedCompanies/PrivateLimitedCompanies.rdf version of this ontology was added to Business Entities, including both per the issue resolutions identified in the FIBO BE 1.0 FTF report."

add label: "private limited companies ontology"

add fileAbstract: "This ontology defines the fundamental concepts for representing Private Limited Companies."

add seeAlso: http://spec.edmcouncil.org/fibo/BE/AboutBE/

add contentLanguage: http://www.omg.org/spec/ODM/

add copyright: "Copyright (c) 2015 EDM Council, Inc.

Copyright (c) 2015 Object Management Group, Inc."

add dependsOn: http://spec.edmcouncil.org/fibo/FND/

add contentLanguage: http://www.w3.org/standards/techs/owl#w3c_all

add seeAlso: http://spec.edmcouncil.org/fibo/AboutTheEDMC-FIBOFamily/

add license: http://www.omg.org/techprocess/ab/SpecificationMetadata/MITLicense

add following ontology imports:

http://spec.edmcouncil.org/fibo/BE/LegalEntities/LegalPersons/

http://spec.edmcouncil.org/fibo/FND/AgentsAndPeople/Agents/

http://spec.edmcouncil.org/fibo/FND/Organizations/FormalOrganizations/

http://spec.edmcouncil.org/fibo/FND/OwnershipAndControl/Ownership/

http://spec.edmcouncil.org/fibo/FND/Parties/Parties/

http://spec.edmcouncil.org/fibo/FND/Parties/Roles/

http://spec.edmcouncil.org/fibo/FND/Relations/Relations/

create new subdirectory for GovernmentEntities under /be

create new file GovernmentEntities.rdf and include the following:

add Ontology IRI: http://spec.edmcouncil.org/fibo/BE/GovernmentEntities/GovernmentEntities

add Ontology Version IRI: http://spec.edmcouncil.org/fibo/BE/20160201/GovernmentEntities/GovernmentEntities/

add dependsOn: http://spec.edmcouncil.org/fibo/BE/LegalEntities/LegalPersons/

add seeAlso: http://spec.edmcouncil.org/fibo/BE/AboutBE/

add contentLanguage: http://www.omg.org/spec/ODM/

add dependsOn: http://spec.edmcouncil.org/fibo/BE/LegalEntities/FormalBusinessOrganizations/

add fileAbbreviation: "fibo-be-ge-ge"

add label: "government entities ontology"

add dependsOn: http://spec.edmcouncil.org/fibo/FND/

add contentLanguage: http://www.w3.org/standards/techs/owl#w3c_all

add seeAlso: http://spec.edmcouncil.org/fibo/AboutTheEDMC-FIBOFamily/

add fileAbstract: "This ontology defines concepts around government entities"

add fileName: "GovernmentEntities.rdf"

add copyright: "Copyright (c) 2013-2015 EDM Council, Inc.

Copyright (c) 2013-2015 Object Management Group, Inc."

add license: http://www.omg.org/techprocess/ab/SpecificationMetadata/MITLicense

add following ontology imports:

http://spec.edmcouncil.org/fibo/BE/LegalEntities/LegalPersons/

http://spec.edmcouncil.org/fibo/BE/LegalEntities/FormalBusinessOrganizations

http://spec.edmcouncil.org/fibo/BE/LegalEntities/LEIEntities

http://spec.edmcouncil.org/fibo/BE/Corporations/Corporations/

http://spec.edmcouncil.org/fibo/FND/AgentsAndPeople/Agents/

http://spec.edmcouncil.org/fibo/FND/Parties/Parties/

http://spec.edmcouncil.org/fibo/FND/Parties/Roles/

http://spec.edmcouncil.org/fibo/FND/Relations/Relations/

http://spec.edmcouncil.org/fibo/FND/Law/Jurisdiction/

http://spec.edmcouncil.org/fibo/FND/Places/Addresses/

http://spec.edmcouncil.org/fibo/BE/OwnershipAndControl/Executives/

add GovernmentalEntity as a subClassOf FormalOrganization, JuridicalPerson, LEICapabileEntity

add label: "government entity"

add skos:definition: "an agency, instrumentality, or other entity of Federal, State, or local government (including multijurisdictional agencies, instrumentalities, and entities)."

add definitionOrigin: http://definitions.uslegal.com/g/government-entity/

add editorialNote: "A governmental entity in the sense of a juridical person.  It is identified as a legal person because it is able to enter into contracts, sue and incur debt in its own right."

add explanatoryNote: "Identifying government entities is a pre-requisite for identifying government officials.  This information is needed to help ensure compliance with applicable laws relating to bribery or corruption, including the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the UK Bribery Act 2010 (UKBA), the U.S. Bank Bribery Act (Bribery Act), and other anti-bribery and corruption laws in the jurisdictions where the financial institution does business."

add restriction: hasMember some GovernmentOfficial

add restriction: hasObjective some PublicPurpose

add GovernmentOfficial as subClasOf OrganizationMember

add label: "government official"

add skos:definition: "a person elected or appointed to administer a government"

add adaptedFrom: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/government+officials

add restriction hasIdentity exactly 1 LegallyCapablePerson

add restriction: isPlayedBy some (isMemberOf only GovernmentalEntity)

add GovernmentAppointee as subClassOf Executive

add label: "government appointee"

add skos:definition: "an individual appointed by government decree to lead, or participate in some capacity, in a government agency."

add restriction: isPlayedBy some (isAppointedBy some GovernmentalEntity)

add GovernmentMinister as a subClassOf Executive

add label: "government minister"

add skos:definition: "a person appointed or elected to a high office in the government."

add example: ""Minister of Finance", "Secretary of State", "Attorney General of California".

add restriction: (isPlayedBy some (isElectedBy only Polity)) or (isPlayedBy some (isAppointedBy only ExecutiveBranch))

add Government as a subClassOf GovernmentalEntity

add label: "government"

add skos:definition: "the system by which a state or community is controlled."

add definitionOrigin: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/government

add explanatoryNote: "In the Commonwealth of Nations, the word government is also used more narrowly to refer to the collective group of people that exercises executive authority in a state. This usage is analogous to what is called an "administration" in American English. Furthermore, especially in American English, the concepts of the state and the government may be used synonymously to refer to the person or group of people exercising authority over a politically organized territory"

add restriction: governs some GeopoliticalEntity

add restriction: hasGovernmentalAgency some GovernmentAgency

add restriction: hasGovernmentalBranch some GovernmentBranch

add restriction: hasGovernmentalDepartment some GovernmentDepartment

add disjoint relation with: GovernmentInstrumentality

add hasGovernmentalAgency as a subPropertyOf hasPart

add label: "has governmental agency"

add skos:definition: "identifies the relation between a governmental agency and the governmental entity to which the agency belongs."

add domain: GovernmentalEntity

add range: GovernmentAgency

add hasGovernmentalBranch as a subPropertyOf hasPart

add label: "has governmental branch"

add skos:definition: "identifies the relation between a governmental branch and the government."

add domain: Government

add range: GovernmentBranch

add hasGovernmentalDepartment as a subPropertyOf hasPart

add label: "has governmental department"

add skos:definition: "identifies the relation between a governmental department and the governmental entity to which the department belongs."

add domain: GovernmentalEntity

add range: GovernmentDepartment

add hasSovereigntyOver as an Object Property

add label: "has sovereignty over"

add skos:definition: "dominion and authority of a political state."

add definitionOrigin: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/sovereignty.html

add domain: Polity

add range: GeopoliticalEntity

add hasFullSovereigntyOver as a subPropertyOf hasSovereigntyOver

add label: "has full sovereignty over"

add skos:definition: "absolute, supreme and ultimate dominion and authority of a political state subject to no higher power, expressed within its territory in full self-government and in complete freedom from any outside influence."

add definitionOrigin: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/sovereignty.html

add domain: Polity

add range: GeopoliticalEntity

add hasPartialSovereigntyOver as a subPropertyOf hasSovereigntyOver

add label: "has partial sovereignty over"

add skos:definition: "partial dominion and authority of a political state."

add domain: Polity

add range: GeopoliticalEntity

add hasSharedSovereigntyOver as a subPropertyOf hasSovereigntyOver

add label: "has shared sovereignty over"

add skos:definition: "shared dominion and authority of a political state."

add domain: Polity

add range: GeopoliticalEntity

add isInstrumentOf as an Object Property

add label: "is instrument of"

add skos:definition: "specifies the relation between a government and a government instrumentality."

add domain: GovernmentInstrumentality

add range: Government

add isElectedBy as an Object Property

add label: "is elected by"

add skos:definition: "references the polity or organization that elects an individual to an office."

add domain: LegallyDelegatedAuthority

add range: Polity or FormalOrganization

add isRepresentedBy as an Object Property

add label: "is represented by"

add skos:definition: "describes the representative of a polity or organization"

add domain: Polity or FormalOrganization

add range: IndependentParty

add NationalGovernment as a subClassOf Government

add label: "national government"

add skos:definition: "an organization that is put in place to maintain control of a nation"

add adaptedFrom: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/national+government

add restriction: governs some Country

add disjoint relation with: RegionalGovernment

add FederalGovernment as a subClassOf NationalGovernment

add label: "federal government"

add skos:definition: " a central government over a union of states distinct from the individual governments of the separate states"

add adaptedFrom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation

add restriction: (governs min 0 FederalCapitalArea) and (governs min 2 FederalState)

add RegionalGovernment as a subClassOf Government

add label: "regional government"

add skos:definition: "an administrative body for a small geographic area, such as a city, town, county, or state."

add definitionOrigin: "http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/local-government.html"

add explanatoryNote: "A regional government will typically only have control over their specific geographical region, and can not pass or enforce laws that will affect a wider area.Regional governments can elect officials, enact taxes, and do many other things that a national government would do, just on a smaller scale."

add restriction: governs some CountrySubdivision

add TribalGovernment as a subClassOf Government

add label: "tribal government"

add skos:definition: "an organization that governs a tribal entity."

add adaptedFrom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribal_Council

add restriction:governs some TribalArea

add GovernmentAgency as a subClassOf GovernmentalEntity

add label: "government agency"

add skos:definition: "a permanent or semi-permanent organization that is often an appointed commission in the machinery of government that is responsible for the oversight and administration of specific functions."

add adaptedFrom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_agency

add explanatoryNote: "There is a notable variety of agency types. Although usage differs, a government agency is normally distinct both from a department or ministry, and other types of public body established by government. The functions of an agency are normally executive in character, since different types of organizations (such as commissions) are most often constituted in an advisory role—this distinction is often blurred in practice however."

add restriction: isManagedBy some GovernmentAppointee

add disjoint relation with GovernmentDepartment

add GovernmentBranch as a subClassOf GovernmentalEntity

add label: "government branch"

add skos:definition: "a division of government, each with separate and independent powers and areas of responsibility so that the powers of one branch are not in conflict with the powers associated with the other branches. "

add adaptedFrom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribal_Council

add explanatoryNote: "The typical division of branches is into a legislature, an executive, and a judiciary."

add ExecutiveBranch as a subClassOf GovernmentBranch

add label: "executive branch"

add skos:definition: "the part of the government that has its authority and responsibility for the daily administration of the state."

add adaptedFrom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_(government)

add JudicialBranch as a subClassOf GovernmentBranch

add label: "judicial branch"

add skos:"the system of courts that interprets and applies the law in the name of the state."

add adaptedFrom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judiciary

add explanatoryNote: "The judiciary also provides a mechanism for the resolution of disputes. Under the doctrine of the separation of powers, the judiciary generally does not make law (that is, in a plenary fashion, which is the responsibility of the legislature) or enforce law (which is the responsibility of the executive), but rather interprets law and applies it to the facts of each case."

add LegislativeBranch as a subClassOf GovernmentBranch

add label: "legislative branch"

add skos:" the law-making body of a political unit, usually a national government, that has power to enact, amend, and repeal public policy."

add adaptedFrom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislature

add explanatoryNote: " Laws enacted by legislatures are known as legislation. Legislatures observe and steer governing actions and usually have exclusive authority to amend the budget or budgets involved in the process."

add editorialNote: "The most common names for national legislatures are "parliament" and "congress". The members of a legislature are called legislators."

add GovernmentDepartment as a subClassOf GovernmentalEntity

add label: "government department"

add skos:definition: "a specialized organization responsible for a sector of government public administration"

add adaptedFrom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry

add explanatoryNote: "A ministry is a specialized organization responsible for a sector of government public administration, sometimes led by a minister or a senior public servant, that can have responsibility for one or more departments, agencies, bureaus, commissions or other smaller executive, advisory, managerial or administrative organisations."

add explanatoryNote: "Government departments are analogous to ministries common in parliamentary or semi-presidential systems."

add explanatoryNote: "With the United States being a presidential system, their heads otherwise equivalent to ministers, do not form a government (in a parliamentary sense) nor are they led by a head of government separate from the head of state. The heads of the federal executive departments, known as secretaries of their respective department, form the traditional Cabinet of the United States, an executive organ that serves at the disposal of the president and normally act as an advisory body to the presidency."

add restricton: isManagedBy some GovernmentMinister

add disjoint relation with: GovernmentAgency

add GovernmentInstrumentality as a subClassOf GovernmentalEntity

add label: "government instrumentality"

add skos:definition: "an organization that serves a public purpose and is closely tied to federal and/or state government, but is not a government agency."

add adaptedFrom: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/instrumentality.asp

add explanatoryNote: "Many instrumentalities are private companies, and some are chartered directly by state or federal government. Instrumentalities are subject to a unique set of laws that shape their activities."

add restriction: isInstrumentOf some Government

add restriction: isMandatedBy some StatuteLaw

add disjoint relation with Government

add GovernmentInstrumentalityAsPrivateCorporation as a subClassOf GovernmentInstrumentality and PrivatelyHeldCorporation

add label: "government instrumentality as private corporation"

add skos:definition: "an instrumentality that is a private company."

add adaptedFrom: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/instrumentality.asp

add GovernmentInstrumentalityCreatedByStatute as a subClassOf GovernmentInstrumentality and StatutoryCorporation

add label: "government instrumentality created by statute"

add skos:definition: "an instrumentality that is chartered directly by state or federal government."

add adaptedFrom: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/instrumentality.asp

add Polity as a subClassOf JuridicalPerson

add label: "polity"

add skos:definition: "a state or one of its subordinate civil authorities, such as a province, prefecture, county, municipality, city, or district."

add adaptedFrom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polity

add explanatoryNote: " It is generally understood to mean a geographic area with a corresponding government"

add restriction: hasSovereigntyOver some GeopoliticalEntity

add restriction: isRepresentedBy some Government

add RegionalState as a subClassOf Polity

add label: "regional state"

add skos:definition: "the legal entity that corresponds to an administrative division, administrative unit, administrative entity or country subdivision (or, sometimes, geopolitical division or subnational entity), that has the capacity to incur debt, issue contracts, and enter into relations with other similar entities"

add adaptedFrom: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_division

add explanatoryNote: "A country may be divided into provinces, which, in turn, are divided into counties, which, in turn, may be divided in whole or in part into municipalities; and so on"

add seeAlso: "ISO 3166-2 Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions - Part 1, Country subdivision codes"

add restriction: hasSharedSovereigntyOver some FederalState

add restriction: isRepresentedBy exactly 1 RegionalGovernment

add disjoint relation with SovereignState

add SovereignState as a subClassOf Polity

add label: "sovereign state"

add skos:definition: "a nonphysical juridical entity that is represented by one centralized government that has sovereignty over a geographic area."

add adaptedFrom: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_state

add explanatoryNote: "A legal entity that is represented by one centralized government, has a permanent population, defined territory, and the capacity to enter into relations with other sovereign states.  It is identified as a legal entity as well as the setter of laws because it is able to incur debt in its own right and enter into contracts."

add restriction: hasFullSovereigntyOver some Country

add restriction: isRepresentedBy some NationalGovernment

add disjoint relation with RegionalState

add Federationas a subClassOf SovereignState

add label: "federation"

add skos:definition: "a political entity characterized by a union of partially self-governing states or regions under a central (federal) government."

add definitionOrigin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation

add explanatoryNote: "A federation is a political entity characterized by a union of partially self-governing states or regions under a central (federal) government. In a federation, the self-governing status of the component states, as well as the division of power between them and the central government, are typically constitutionally entrenched and may not be altered by a unilateral decision of either party, the states or the federal political body"

add editorialNote: "Federal entity in the sense of a legal entity, that is, what it is that incurs debt for a federal government, i.e. the Federal entity in the sense of the legal entity, as distinct from the Federal government. It is identified as a legal entity because it is able to incur debt in its own right."

add restriction: (hasFullSovereigntyOver min 1 Country) and (hasSharedSovereigntyOver min 2 FederalState)

(isRepresentedBy min 2 RegionalGovernment) and (isRepresentedBy exactly 1 FederalGovernment)

add TribalEntity as a subClassOf Polity

add label: "tribal entity"

add skos:definition: "the indigenous tribe is a fundamental unit of sovereign tribal government."

add adaptedFrom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federally_recognized_tribes_by_state

add explanatoryNote: "Any indigenous group or community which is recognized as having rights and obligations independent to the central government"

add restriction: "hasPartialSovereigntyOver some GeopoliticalEntity"

add restriction: isRepresentedBy some TribalGovernment

add TribalArea as a subClassOf CountrySubdivision

add label: "tribal area"

add skos:definition: "designation of land reserved and managed for a tribe"

add adaptedFrom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_reservation

in restriction change from FormallyConstitutedOrganization to ContractuallyConstitutedOrganization. (see line 41)

change label to: "entity owner"

change skos:definition to: "a party that has some ownership interest in some contractually constituted organization"

**** Scutunize the logical validity of this restriction (which is patently wrong) ****

***** Challenge: EntityOwner legacy uses the following restriction:

(isPlayedBy some (holdsEquity only Equity))
or (holdsAnInterestIn min 1 Thing). The property holdsAnInterestIn is a subProperty of owns, which implies ownership interest. However, holdsAnInterestIn is also used in other restrictions where it only implies some form of dejure control (not necessarily ownership). This conflict needs to be resolved. The restrictions where holdsAnInterestIn is used must be reviewed and possibly updated with more accurate object properties.

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change restriction to: holdsAnOwnershipInterestIn some ContractuallyConstitutedOrganization