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

¹ The can­tons and com­munes shall take the meas­ures re­quired to pre­vent cases of ab­use and un­desir­able de­vel­op­ments that may res­ult from the un­res­tric­ted use of homes sub­ject to the pre­vi­ous law as second homes.

² To this end, the can­tons may im­pose more strin­gent re­stric­tions than those con­tained in this Act on the change of use of homes pre­vi­ously used as prin­cip­al homes to second homes to­geth­er with the pos­sible changes in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 11 para­graphs 2–4. If these changes in use and struc­ture do not re­quire a build­ing per­mit, the can­tons may in­tro­duce a build­ing per­mit re­quire­ment.