Federal Act
on Second Homes
(Second Homes Act, SHA)

¹ At the re­quest of the own­er, the build­ing au­thor­ity shall sus­pend a re­stric­tion on use un­der Art­icle 7 para­graph 1 for a spe­cif­ic peri­od if:

a.

the re­stric­tion on use can­not be com­plied with tem­por­ar­ily due to spe­cial cir­cum­stances, such as death, change of res­id­ence or change in civil status; or

b.

the own­er provides proof that the home has been pub­licly ad­vert­ised but the at­tempt to find per­sons who would make ad­equate pay­ment in or­der to use the home in ac­cord­ance with the law has been un­suc­cess­ful.

² The au­thor­ity shall ex­tend the sus­pen­sion un­der para­graph 1 let­ter b if the own­er provides proof that the re­quire­ments there­for con­tin­ue to be met.

³ In or­der­ing the sus­pen­sion in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 1 let­ter b and on any ex­ten­sion there­of, it shall also or­der a re­as­sess­ment of the of­fi­cial value of the home at the own­er’s ex­pense.

⁴ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall reg­u­late the dur­a­tion of sus­pen­sions and their ex­ten­sions as well as the de­tails of the proof to be provided in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 1 let­ter b, in par­tic­u­lar the re­quire­ments for pub­licly ad­vert­ising the home.