Federal Act
on the Amendment of the Swiss Civil Code
(Part Five: The Code of Obligations)

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of 30 March 1911 (Status as of 1 January 2022)
Art. 620

A. Defin­i­tion

 

1 A com­pany lim­ited by shares is a com­pany with its own busi­ness name whose pre-de­term­ined cap­it­al (share cap­it­al)287 is di­vided in­to spe­cif­ic amounts (shares) and whose li­ab­il­it­ies are pay­able only from the com­pany as­sets.

2 The share­hold­ers are re­quired only to ful­fil the du­ties spe­cified in the art­icles of as­so­ci­ation and are not per­son­ally li­able for the com­pany’s ob­lig­a­tions.

3 A com­pany lim­ited by shares may also be es­tab­lished for a pur­pose that is non-com­mer­cial in char­ac­ter.

287 Term in ac­cord­ance with No II 1 of the FA of 4 Oct. 1991, in force since 1 Ju­ly 1992 (AS 1992 733; BBl 1983 II 745). This amend­ment has been taken in­to ac­count throughout the Code.

 
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