Swiss Criminal Code

¹The costs of the ex­e­cu­tion of sen­tences and meas­ures are borne by the can­tons.

²The of­fend­er shall con­trib­ute in an ap­pro­pri­ate man­ner to the costs:

a.

by per­form­ing work while serving a sen­tence or un­der­go­ing a meas­ure;

b.

in ac­cord­ance with his in­come or as­sets if he re­fuses to per­form work as­signed to him even though the work sat­is­fies the re­quire­ments of Art­icles 81 or 90 para­graph 3; or

c.¹

by de­duc­tion of part of the in­come due to him as pay­ment for an activ­ity while in semi-de­ten­tion, while sub­ject to elec­tron­ic mon­it­or­ing, while on day re­lease em­ploy­ment or while in ex­tern­al ac­com­mod­a­tion com­bined with day re­lease em­ploy­ment.

³The can­tons shall is­sue de­tailed reg­u­la­tions on of­fend­ers' con­tri­bu­tions to costs.