Swiss Civil Code

¹Every landown­er is ob­liged to per­mit wa­ter con­duits, drain­age pipes, gas pipes and the like and sub­ter­ranean or over­head cables to tra­verse his or her land in ex­change for full com­pens­a­tion, to the ex­tent that such works would be im­possible or pro­hib­it­ively ex­pens­ive if they did not tra­verse his or her land.¹

²The right for pipes, cables and con­duits to tra­verse an ad­join­ing par­cel of land may not be claimed on the basis of the law of neigh­bours in cases sub­ject to com­puls­ory pur­chase un­der can­ton­al or fed­er­al law.

³At the re­quest of the dom­in­ant or the ser­vi­ent own­er, such rights shall be re­cor­ded in the land re­gister as an ease­ment at the ex­pense of the dom­in­ant own­er. The right for pipes, cables and con­duits to tra­verse an ad­join­ing par­cel of land may be cited in op­pos­i­tion to a per­son ac­quir­ing a par­cel of land in good faith, even if it is not re­gistered.²