Ordinance on Nature Conservation - Uprooting and Digging Up of Plants
Table of Provisions (8)
Statutory Text (8 Articles)
1. The uprooting and digging up, offering for sale and dispatching, as well as the buying and selling of wild plants with their roots are prohibited.
2. The municipal police offices are authorized, with the assistance of an expert, to grant exceptions to this prohibition for uprooting for scientific, educational, or medicinal purposes, provided that the survival of the species is not significantly diminished. Such exceptions are valid only for the current year and for the specific municipality concerned.
1. The mass picking and cutting off, offering for sale and sending, as well as buying and selling of flowers, leaves, and branches of wild-growing plants is prohibited.
2. On the other hand, picking small bouquets without intent to profit is permitted, provided that the survival of the concerned plant species is not endangered.
3. The governing council designates the plant species that are endangered in their natural stock and may only be picked in individual specimens or not at all.
1. The Government Council is authorized, in consultation with the respective municipal councils, to subject certain areas to partial or total plant protection.
1. Agricultural soil improvements and uses are not affected by this regulation.
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1. Especially beautiful or interesting trees, rare plants, and characteristic types of vegetation, whose continued existence is endangered, as well as characteristic erratic boulders, are to be protected as natural monuments by the municipal councils in accordance with Art. 702 of the Swiss Civil Code and Art. 98 of the Introductory Act to the Swiss Civil Code.
1. The police and forestry employees as well as the game warden are instructed to monitor compliance with these provisions.
2. The government council may also appoint other suitable persons as voluntary supervisors to oversee plant protection.
1. Violations of this regulation and the supplementary provisions of the Government Council shall be penalized by confiscation of the unlawfully picked plants and by a fine.
1. The governing council may issue the necessary implementing provisions for this ordinance.
2. This ordinance shall enter into force upon adoption by the cantonal council. It replaces the ordinance on plant protection of March 25, 1929.