Federal Act
on Radio and Television
(RTVA)

¹ Each private house­hold must pay the same fee.

² The defin­i­tion of a private house­hold is gov­erned by the le­gis­la­tion on the har­mon­isa­tion of re­gisters.

³ The fol­low­ing per­sons are jointly and sev­er­ally li­able for pay­ment of the house­hold fee:

a.

adults for whom the house­hold is their main res­id­ence, in ana­log­ous terms to the defin­i­tion of the com­mune of res­id­ence in Art­icle 3 let­ter b of the Re­gister Har­mon­isa­tion Act of 23 June 2006⁵⁹ (RHA); or

b.

adults who have no main res­id­ence in Switzer­land and for whom the house­hold is their sec­ond­ary res­id­ence, in ana­log­ous terms to the defin­i­tion of the com­mune of res­id­ence in Art­icle 3 let­ter c RHA.

⁴ Each per­son’s li­ab­il­ity ex­tends to the amount due from the fee peri­ods at the start of which the per­son is a mem­ber of the house­hold.

⁵ If all the adults who be­longed to a house­hold at the start of a month leave that house­hold with­in that month, the house­hold is deemed to be dis­solved as of the last day of that month.