Swiss Civil Code

¹ The ad­min­is­trat­or shall rep­res­ent the con­domin­i­um own­ers both as a com­munity and as in­di­vidu­als in all ex­tern­al deal­ings re­lat­ing to com­mun­al ad­min­is­tra­tion with­in the scope of his or her stat­utory du­ties.

² Ex­cept in sum­mary pro­ceed­ings, the ad­min­is­trat­or must ob­tain the pri­or ap­prov­al of the as­sembly of con­domin­i­um own­ers to act as plaintiff or de­fend­ant in civil pro­ceed­ings un­less the mat­ter is ur­gent, in which case such ap­prov­al may be ob­tained ret­ro­spect­ively.

³ De­clar­a­tions, de­mands, judg­ments and court or­ders ad­dressed to the com­munity of con­domin­i­um own­ers are deemed duly no­ti­fied once they are served on the ad­min­is­trat­or at his or her dom­i­cile or at the place where the prop­erty is situ­ated.