Ordinance on the Departments (DepV) (DEPV)

1. The cantonal administration is divided into the following seven departments

a) Construction and Environment (BUD)

b) Education (ED)

c) Finance (FD)

d) Health and Social Affairs (GSD)

e) Justice, Police, and Military (JPMD)

f) Agriculture and Forestry (LFD)

g) Economic Affairs (VD)

2. The Council Office (RK) is the staff unit of the State Commission.

1. Construction Tasks

a) Construction and maintenance of state roads

b) Construction and maintenance of canton-owned administrative buildings

c) Spatial, directive, and zoning planning with local heritage protection

d) Footpaths and hiking trails

e) Water engineering and natural hazard management

g) * ...

h) * ...

2. Environmental Tasks

a) Water protection (including construction, operation, and maintenance)

b) Environmental protection (including construction, operation, and maintenance)

c) Hazardous service

d) * ...

3. Additional Tasks

a) Energy sector

b) Hunting and fishing

c) Cable cars and ski lifts

1. Responsibilities

a) Primary School

b) Intermediate School

c) * Tertiary Education

d) * Vocational Training

e) Career Counseling

f) Scholarships

g) Culture

h) Sports

i) * Public Worship

1. Responsibilities

a) Financial Administration

b) Accounting

c) Financial Controlling

d) * Budget, State Accounts, Financial Planning

e) Fiscal Equalization

f) Management of Financial Assets, unless another department is responsible.

g) Insurance for the Canton, including Pension Fund for State Employees

h) Tax Administration

i) Property Appraisals

j) Information Technology and Telephony

k) Personnel and Payroll Management

1. Responsibilities in Health

a) * Health Prevention

b) * Health Care Provision

c) * Long-Term Care Services

d) * Public Health Police and Supervision

e) * ...

f) * Patient and Emergency Transport Services

g) * ...

h) * ...

i) * Consumer Protection

j) * Enforcement Tasks in Health Insurance Sector

2. Responsibilities in Social Services

a) Social Insurances

b) * Social Assistance

c) Child and Adult Protection

d) * Disability Services

e) * Asylum Support

f) * ...

g) * Children, Youth, and Family Issues

1. Responsibilities of the Judiciary

a) Administration of the courts, court clerks' offices, the public prosecutor's office, and the juvenile prosecutor's office, insofar as they are not themselves responsible.

b) Penal system

c) Probation services

d) Victim assistance

e) * ...

f) * ...

g) * ...

2. Responsibilities of the Police

a) Cantonal police

b) Road traffic (excluding road construction and maintenance)

c) * Resident control, settlement and residence, asylum affairs, passport affairs, integration

d) Commercial police

3. Responsibilities of the Military

a) Military

b) * Civil protection and fire protection services

c) Cantonal leadership staff

4. Additional Responsibilities

a) Calibration services

b) Civil status affairs

c) Citizenship

1. Tasks in Agriculture

a) * Promotion and Support

b) Dairy Industry

c) Land Reclamation

d) Farm Advisory Services

e) Land and Lease Law

f) * Veterinary Services and Animal Epidemic Control

g) Animal Protection

h) Agricultural Vocational Schools and Education

i) Agricultural Properties

j) Nature and Landscape Protection

k) * Viticulture and Fruit Growing

l) * Plant Protection

2. Tasks in Forestry

a) Forestry

b) State Forests

c) * Forestry Education

d) * ...

3. Additional Tasks

a) Geoinformation and Surveying

1. Responsibilities

a) Economic Policy and Economic Development

b) Commercial Register

c) New Regional Policy

d) * Supervision of Foundations

e) Public Transportation

f) Tourism

g) * Labor and Employment Services

h) * Bankruptcy Matters

i) * Debt Collection Matters

j) * Land Registry

k) * Inheritance Matters

l) Promotion of Housing and Home Ownership

m) National Economic Supply

n) * Aviation Matters

1. Tasks

a) Preparation and recording of the meetings of the Grand Council, the Bureau, and the State Commission

b) Legal Service

c) * Communication

d) Voting and Elections

e) Collection of Laws and Legislation

f) State Archive

g) Cantonal Library

h) Arbitration Board for Tenancy Matters

i) Organization of Events

j) * Usher Service, Postal Service, and Central Material Office

1. Tasks not listed under Articles 2 to 9 are assigned by the Council of State.

1. For the department, the department head or their representative signs, and for the other offices, their head or deputy signs.

2. The department head may authorize employees to sign in specific areas of responsibility for the department or for one of its offices. For the council office and its departments, the council secretary holds this authority.

3. The council office maintains a public register of signing authorities.

1. This regulation shall enter into force upon adoption by the Grand Council.