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

¹ If a home with a re­stric­tion on use un­der Art­icle 7 para­graph 1 is not used in ac­cord­ance with the law, the com­pet­ent au­thor­ity shall set a dead­line for the own­er to re­store the law­ful po­s­i­tion un­der no­tice of sub­sti­tute per­form­ance and the pen­alty un­der Art­icle 292 of the Crim­in­al Code⁷ in the event of fail­ure to do so. The au­thor­ity may ex­tend the dead­line at the re­quest of the own­er in jus­ti­fied cases.

² If the own­er fails to re­store the law­ful po­s­i­tion with­in the rel­ev­ant dead­line, the com­pet­ent au­thor­ity shall pro­hib­it the use of the home and or­der it to be sealed.

³ The com­pet­ent au­thor­ity shall take the meas­ures re­quired to re­store the law­ful po­s­i­tion. In par­tic­u­lar, it may rent out the home sub­ject to com­pli­ance with the re­stric­tion on use un­der Art­icle 7 para­graph 1.

⁴ If mem­bers of the com­pet­ent build­ing au­thor­it­ies or their em­ploy­ees be­come aware of of­fences in the course of their of­fi­cial activ­it­ies, they are re­quired to re­port the same im­me­di­ately to the su­per­vis­ory au­thor­ity in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 15.