Act on the Organisation of the Cantonal Administration (Organisationsgesetz, OG) - Scope of Application (OG)

1. This law regulates the structure and organization of the state administration in its basic principles. It does not apply to the organization of judicial administration.

1. The Government Council is the supreme executive and administrative authority of the Canton. It is tasked with overseeing the state administration. Supervision of the cantonal institutions is subject to special legislation.

2. In relation to state representatives elected by the Government Council in bodies that do not belong to the direct or indirect state administration, the Government Council is entitled to information and has the right to issue directives.

3. All decisions are made by the Government Council. It decides as a collegial body. Reserved are other legal task assignments and the delegation of competencies.

4. The chair of the Government Council is held by the Landammann or the Frau Landammann. The deputy chair is held by the Statthalter or the Frau Statthalter, and in the event of inability, by the longest-serving member.

5. Documents for the Government Council are signed by the Frau Landammann or the Landammann together with the Landschreiberin or the Landschreiber.

1. The Council of Ministers allocates the areas of responsibility by regulation to seven directorates and determines their designations. In doing so, it takes into account the requirements for a balanced, economically effective, and efficient administrative organization.

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2. The directorates are responsible for executing tasks within their area in accordance with the law.

3. Each directorate is led and supervised by a member of the Council of Ministers as head or director of the directorate. The Council of Ministers appoints a deputy for each directorate.

4. The directorates are structured into offices according to their tasks and competencies. Their heads report directly to the responsible member of the Council of Ministers. The offices may be divided into departments, led by the head of the office.

5. The Council of Ministers determines by regulation the allocation of offices to the individual directorates. It informs the extended State Economic Commission about any planned significant reorganizations.

6. The directorate secretariats are each led by a Secretary General. They primarily perform staff, planning, coordination, and advisory functions.

7. The head of the directorate informs the Secretary General regularly about the most important matters of the directorate. In the absence of the directorate head, the Secretary General is obliged to promptly forward the necessary information to the deputy member of the Council of Ministers.

1. The State Chancellery is headed by the State Secretary and is under the direct supervision of the Governor. The Government Council may delegate the management of the State Chancellery to another employee.

2. The representation of matters from the competence area of the State Chancellery in the Government Council, the Cantonal Council, and in the commissions is the responsibility of the Governor.

1. The Government Council shall appoint a Deputy State Clerk in agreement with the Bureau of the Cantonal Council.

2. The Deputy is subordinate to the State Clerk professionally and assigned administratively to the State Chancellery.

3. He or she

a) advises - together with the State Clerk - the Government Council and the Cantonal Council, the Bureau, and the Cantonal Council Presidency on legal, organizational, and planning matters;

b) executes assignments for the Government Council or the State Clerk, provided that the workload according to letters a and b allows for it.

4. The State Clerk shall represent the Deputy.

5. The employees of the cantonal administration are obliged to provide the State Clerk and the Deputy with expert information, as far as it is necessary for the fulfillment of their tasks according to paragraph 3 letter a.

6. The Government Council may appoint other employees of the cantonal administration to deputize for the State Clerk.

1. The directorates and the state chancellery regulate the responsibilities, subordination, and representation for their offices and departments, as well as the authorization to sign, subject to the provisions of the Budget Act.

1. The government council is authorized to delegate its decision-making powers in administrative matters to the directorates or the state chancellery in individual, precisely defined areas. The delegation of internal administrative adjudication is excluded.

2. The directorates and the state chancellery are authorized to delegate the powers conferred upon them by law or delegation to the offices, departments, or individual employees directly subordinate to them, however, without the authorization for subdelegation.

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1. The government council is responsible for directing administrative activities according to the principles of legality, effectiveness, quality, customer-friendliness, economy, and risk orientation. It manages through objectives, particularly with a multi-year strategy and legislative goals. The strategy and legislative goals are submitted to the cantonal council for information.

2. The offices and the state chancellery are managed with performance mandates and global budgets. The government council may approve exceptions to administrative management with performance mandates and global budgets. For specific reasons, departments may also be managed with performance mandates and global budgets.

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3. The performance mandate specifically includes

a) * the basic mandate;

b) * the essential services, divided into several service groups, which form a unit within an office and depict the tasks of an office in a manageable number;

c) * the performance targets and possibly the impact targets;

d) * the indicators for measuring the achievement of targets.

4. The performance mandates are agreed upon annually by the directorates with the offices and decided by the government council.

5. The government council submits the performance mandates to the cantonal council for approval. The approval includes the performance mandate as a whole and occurs simultaneously with the budget resolution.

6. If the cantonal council refuses to approve a performance mandate, the government council shall submit a revised performance mandate along with the corresponding global budget by the end of February of the budget year. If the cantonal council changes the global budget, the government council may submit a revised performance mandate by the end of February of the budget year.

7. The government council reports annually to the cantonal council on the fulfillment of the performance mandates. The offices periodically report to their directorates.

1. This Act shall enter into force on January 1, 1999, subject to a referendum in accordance with § 34 of the Cantonal Constitution.

1. Upon the coming into force of this law, all conflicting provisions shall be repealed, in particular the Law on the Organization of State Administration of April 10, 1967.

2. The Government Council is authorized to editorially adapt organizational and jurisdictional provisions that conflict with this law.