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Art. 4 Decree Concerning the Building Permit (DCP)

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Art. 4 Decree Concerning the Building Permit (DCP)

**1. Subject to Article 6, a building permit is required for the construction and expansion:**

a) of buildings and parts of buildings;

b) of other installations, such as

- tanks, storage and distribution facilities for gasoline, lubricant, and gas;

- towers, chimneys, antennas, transformer stations;

- fixed boundary fences, palisades, walls;

- ramps, projections, swimming pools, underground and partially underground constructions, greenhouses, solar panels;

- manure pits, manure silos, treatment facilities, settling tanks, soak wells;

- private equipment (roads, access roads, parking spaces, pipelines, etc.);

- boat mooring places, mooring buoys;

c) of camping grounds, waste disposal sites, and material extraction sites, unless all conditions have been precisely defined by a special plan;

d) of construction site facilities subject to Article 6, paragraph 1, letter g.

**2. A building permit is also required for:**

a) the establishment of mobile homes, habitable caravans, tents, etc., outside an authorized camping site, provided they are installed at the same location for more than two months per calendar year;

b) modifications made to land by filling or excavating it; this requirement applies only to modifications exceeding 1.20 meters in height or to those less than 1.20 meters when the affected surface area is greater than 500 m².

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Court Decisions Applying This Provision (4)

ADM 2019 96 · ju (Art. 4 al. 2 let. a DPC)
Mobile Coop Permit Dispute
Cited as an alternative legal basis for requiring a building permit for mobile habitats, even if the interpretation of Art. 22 LAT were different.
ADM 2018 30 · ju (Art. 4 al. 1 DPC)
Landowner v. Environmental Department: Gas Pipeline Permit Dispute
The court cites this article, which stipulates that a building permit is required for certain constructions, as a basis for the need for a permit for the pipeline.
ADM 2018 30 · ju (Art. 4 al. 3 DPC)
Landowner v. Environmental Department: Gas Pipeline Permit Dispute
The court indicates that the municipality of W.________ is not authorized to issue permits because it holds the right of passage granted in 1999 by the former owner, as per this article.
ADM 2015 75 · ju (Art. 4 al. 2 let. b DPC)
Neighbor's Hay Barn Permit Upheld Despite Minor Deviations
Cited by the appellant to argue that the refilling of the site required a building permit which was not obtained.