Agreement between the Evangelical Church Council of the Canton of Thurgau and the Government Council of the Canton of Zurich concerning the Amendment of Boundary Relations between the Evangelical Parish of Dussnang and the Evangelical-Reformed Parish of Sitzberg

Contract

between the Evangelical Church Council

of the Canton Thurgau and the Government Council

of the Canton Zurich concerning the Amendment of the

Border Relations between the Evangelical

Parish Dussnang and the Evangelical

Reformed Parish Sitzberg

(of 30 September 1997)¹

Between the Evangelical Church Council of the Canton Thurgau and

the Government Council of the Canton Zurich, after hearing the Church

Council of the Canton Zurich, the following is agreed

1. The hamlets of Oberhamberg, Unterhamberg and Speck (hereinafter

referred to as hamlets) shall be separated from the Evangelical Parish

Dussnang and assigned to the Evangelical Reformed Parish

Sitzberg.

2. As members of the Evangelical Reformed Parish Sitzberg, the residents

of the hamlets shall have the same rights and obligations as the other

members of the parish.

3. For the fulfilment of the church tax obligation existing under Zurich law,

however, the following regulation shall apply: The Evangelical

Parish Dussnang shall continue to levy church tax from the taxpayers of

the hamlets according to Thurgau law. It shall annually prepare a special

settlement thereon by the end of November at the latest and transfer

the collected amount to the Evangelical Reformed Church Property

Administration Sitzberg before the end of the calendar year.

4. Furthermore, no property-related dispute shall take place between the

parishes involved.

5. It is noted that an adaptation of the contract of 1896 between the

Political Municipality of Turbenthal and the farms Oberhamberg,

Bärlischwand and Neuhaus concerning burial in the cemetery in

Sitzberg, by including the farms Unterhamberg and Speck, remains

with the organs responsible for burial matters.

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181.35 Border Relations between Parishes Thurgau/Zurich

6. This contract shall enter into force on 1 January 1998. It shall be

published in the Official Gazettes of the Cantons of Zurich and Thurgau

and included in the Cantonal Collections of Laws.

1 OS 54, 453.

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