Kanton Glarus (EGRHG)

Purpose and Scope

¹ This Act, in implementation of the Register Harmonisation Act, aims to regulate the resident registration system and to simplify the exchange of data between resident registers and other official personal registers.

² For persons of foreign nationality, this Act applies subject to other provisions, in particular those pertaining to foreign nationals' law.

³ The personal and functional titles used in this Act refer to both genders.

Jurisdictions

1 Every municipality shall have a residents' registration office which maintains an electronic residents' register in accordance with the provisions of the Register Harmonization Act.

2 The Government Council shall ensure the coordination, implementation, and quality control of register harmonization, as well as the supervision of the enforcement of regulations concerning residents' registration; it shall designate the departments responsible therefor.

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Register of Residents

1 The register of residents contains, for every person who has settled in or is residing in the municipality, the data according to Article 6 RHG.

2 The Government Council may, after hearing the municipalities and with the involvement of the Data Protection Office, provide for the recording of further data in the register of residents if this is necessary for official or statistical purposes. It shall determine the identifiers and characteristics, insofar as these are not prescribed by the Federal Statistical Office.

**2. Reporting Obligations**

Reporting Obligations for Residents

1 Anyone moving into, within, or out of a municipality must report this to the residents' registration office within 14 days.

2 The same obligation applies, regardless of the establishment of a domicile, to persons who commence or cease self-employment in a municipality.

3 Exempt from the reporting obligation are those who are only temporarily present in a municipality and for no longer than three consecutive months or three months within a year.

Reporting Obligations of Third Parties

1 Landlords and property management companies must report the move-in and move-out of tenants subject to registration to the residents' registration office within 14 days of becoming aware of such events.

2 Similarly, within 14 days, accommodation providers must report all guests subject to registration.

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4 The reporting obligation of third parties does not replace the personal reporting obligation according to Article 4.

Duty to Cooperate

1. Whoever is subject to the reporting obligation must provide the required personal information completely and truthfully, and present the necessary documents, such as civil status documents, rental agreements, court judgments, etc.

2. Employers, landlords, property management companies, innkeepers, and heads of collective households must, within the scope of their legal obligations, provide the Residents' Registration Office, upon request and free of charge, with information about the persons employed by or residing with them.

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3. Documents

Certificate of Origin

1 With the Certificate of Origin, the Civil Status Office of the place of origin certifies that someone is a citizen of a specific municipality.

2 Whoever wishes to settle outside their place of origin requires a Certificate of Origin; it must be deposited with the municipality of settlement.

3 The residents' registration office of the municipality of settlement confirms the deposit in the document receipt.

Heimatausweis (Certificate of Origin)

1 The Residents' Registration Office of the municipality of origin certifies with the Heimatausweis that the certificate of origin (Heimatschein) is deposited there; the Heimatausweis is generally valid for one year.

2 The Heimatausweis must be deposited with the municipality of residence if a person intends to stay in a municipality for longer than three months according to Article 4 paragraph 3; the Residents' Registration Office of the municipality of residence confirms the deposit in the document receipt.

3 Persons registered as temporary residents (Aufenthalter) may be required to prove that their permanent residence (Niederlassung) is indeed elsewhere. If this proof is not provided within the set deadline, the place of residence shall be considered the permanent residence.

Confirmation of Residence

1 The Residents' Registration Office confirms residency in a municipality with the confirmation of residence.

Renewal of Identification Documents

1 Deposited identification documents, whose period of validity is limited, must be renewed before expiration or replaced by new ones.

2 In the event of a change of name, nationality, or civil status, the new identification documents must be deposited with the Residents' Registration Office within 30 days.

Rückgabe

1. Return

1 Anyone who moves away from a municipality is entitled to the return of deposited documents upon reimbursement of the document receipt; the place to which the move occurs must be notified to the residents' registration office.

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4. Data

Exchange of Data between Resident Registration Offices

1 When a person moves in or out, the resident registration offices exchange the data from the resident registers electronically and encrypted, in accordance with Article 10 of the RHG.

Delivery of Data to the Confederation

1. The data from the inhabitant registers according to Article 6 of the RHG shall be made periodically and free of charge available to the competent Federal Office by the inhabitant registration offices, in accordance with the specifications of the RHG.

Delivery of Data to the Canton

1 The data from the inhabitant registers are made available by the inhabitant registration offices to the canton, without request, free of charge, and electronically. *

2 The canton may use the personal data as well as the data from other official personal registers for the fulfillment of its administrative tasks and may establish a central electronic data platform for this purpose. It may also establish and operate data platforms for specific registers in cooperation with other cantons or through third parties.

3 The Government Council regulates the details, in particular which administrative bodies receive online access to the data of the central data platform, and regulates the implications for reporting obligations. It may also grant municipalities corresponding access for the fulfillment of their administrative tasks. *

Disclosure of Data

1 The resident registration offices are entitled and obliged to transmit to all administrative authorities those data which they require for the fulfilment of their duties.

2 Information to third parties will generally only be provided upon personal appearance or written request and is limited to surname, first name, date of birth, place of origin (Heimatort), and address. Such information must be refused if there is reasonable suspicion of misuse.

3 In the event of an arrival, departure, or change of address of persons belonging to a recognised state church, the resident registration office shall communicate the necessary data to the church concerned.

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Blocking of Data

1 The blocking of the disclosure of personal data from the inhabitants' register is governed by Article 17 of the cantonal Law on Data Protection²).

2 The systematic disclosure of data for advertising purposes is inadmissible.

Right of Access

1 Citizens are entitled to inspect their personal data held by the Residents' Registration Office and to demand the correction of errors.

Data for Apartment Identifier, Apartment Numbering

1 Utility and public works companies as well as other registry-keeping bodies of the Canton and the municipalities, which are in possession of data for determining or updating the apartment identifier, shall make these available to the residents' registration office and the building authority free of charge.

2 The municipalities may prescribe physical apartment numbering. In this case, the apartment number must be visibly affixed outside the apartment and specified in the rental agreement.

Use of the Insurance Number

1 The administrative bodies specified in Article 50e, paragraph 2 AHVG may

systematically use the insurance number for the fulfillment of their statutory duties.

2 The Government Council may permit further administrative bodies to systematically

use the insurance number for the fulfillment of their statutory duties.

**5. Fees**

1 The municipalities designate the chargeable activities and establish

the scale of fees. *

6. Legal Protection and Sanctions

Penalty Provision

1 Any person who fails to comply with the duty to report, provide information, cooperate or tell the truth under this Act, or who fails to deposit documents despite being requested to do so, shall be punished with a fine not exceeding 500 Swiss francs.

Implementing Provisions

1 The Government Council shall issue the necessary implementing provisions for the execution of this Act.

7. Final Provisions

1. Dieses Gesetz tritt sofort in Kraft.