Federal Act on Forest
(Forest Act, ForA)

¹ Build­ings and in­stall­a­tions are only ad­miss­ible in the vi­cin­ity of the forest if they do not in­ter­fere with its con­ser­va­tion, main­ten­ance and use.

² The can­tons shall spe­cify a suit­able min­im­um dis­tance for build­ings and in­stall­a­tions from the forest edge. They shall take the loc­a­tion and ex­pec­ted stand height in­to con­sid­er­a­tion in the spe­cific­a­tion of this dis­tance.

³ The com­pet­ent au­thor­it­ies may au­thor­ise con­struc­tions at less than the min­im­um dis­tance if im­port­ant reas­ons are giv­en and sub­ject to cer­tain con­di­tions and re­quire­ments.¹⁹