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

¹ Ac­ces­sion re­quires a writ­ten de­clar­a­tion.

² Where, in ad­di­tion to be­ing li­able with its as­sets, a co­oper­at­ive provides for per­son­al li­ab­il­ity or the li­ab­il­ity to make ad­di­tion­al con­tri­bu­tions on the part of the in­di­vidu­al mem­bers, the de­clar­a­tion of ac­ces­sion must state such ob­lig­a­tions ex­pressly.

³ The board shall de­cide on ac­cept­ance of new mem­bers, un­less un­der the art­icles of as­so­ci­ation a mere de­clar­a­tion of ac­ces­sion is suf­fi­cient or a res­ol­u­tion of the gen­er­al as­sembly is re­quired.