Kanton Glarus (PUBV)

Subject Matter

1 This Ordinance contains the implementing provisions for the Publication Act. It also regulates access to federal legal sources, which must be guaranteed by the Canton.

Additional Contents of the Official Collection of Laws

1 In the Official Collection of Laws, in addition to the matters listed in the law, the following shall be published

a. resolutions concerning cantonal protected areas;

b. concessions granted by the Canton, insofar as their content is of public interest;

c. the statutes of intermunicipal associations;

d. the fundamental enactments of the national churches.

2 The effectiveness of the legal material listed in letters c and d is determined by municipal legislation or ecclesiastical regulations, respectively.

3 Further enactments may be included in the Official Collection of Laws, insofar as there is a public interest in their publication.

Exceptions from Publication in the Collection of Laws

1 Not published in the Collection of Laws are

a. generally binding enactments that regulate a specific matter of

fact (general administrative acts);

b. the statutes and regulations of the Glarner Kantonalbank, as well as the

enactments of other legal entities under cantonal public law,

insofar as their content has no direct effects on citizens.

2 Publication of intercantonal law in the Collection of Laws may be

dispensed with if an equivalent publication by the Confederation or at

the intercantonal level is available. In this case, the Collection of Laws

will refer to the extra-cantonal publication.

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³ Furthermore, publication of enactments and agreements of the Canton

and intercantonal bodies in the Collection of Laws may be dispensed

with if they are directed at a limited, exhaustively determinable group

of persons and their information is ensured by other means.

Time of Publication

¹ The publication of generally binding decrees and agreements takes place in the Collection of Official Decrees (COD) as a rule at least ten days before they come into force.

Extraordinary Publication of Legal Material

¹ The extraordinary publication of legal material belonging to the Official Collection of Laws takes place if publication in the Official Collection of Laws is rendered impossible by extraordinary circumstances or if its effectiveness must be ensured in a special way.

² The publication occurs according to the instructions of the Government Council via radio, television, leaflets, or in another manner.

Correction and Updating of Legal Texts

¹ Errors in legal texts that obviously do not correspond to the decision of the enacting body shall be corrected, to the extent that the correct content can be determined beyond doubt.

² Corrections pursuant to paragraph 1 shall be made in particular for grammatical, spelling, and presentation errors, as well as incorrect references, legislative drafting errors, and conceptual inconsistencies.

³ Information in legal texts, such as designations of administrative units, references, citations, or abbreviations, that have changed, shall be updated by means of footnote references.

Directory of Newly Published Legal Materials

¹ The Official Gazette regularly publishes a directory of legal materials newly published in the Collection of Laws, including their titles and publication dates.

Distribution of Offprints

¹ Offprints for distribution at cost price can be produced if there is significant demand for them.

Cantonal Access Point for Federal Legal Sources

¹ The Cantonal Access Point for federal legal sources within the meaning of federal publication legislation is the State Chancellery.

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* Form of the Official Gazette

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1 The Official Gazette is published in electronic form. The State Chancellery

announces the website on which the Official Gazette is published.

2 The authoritative version is the announcement published on the internet in PDF format and provided with an electronic signature.

Publication Mode of the Official Gazette

1 The Official Gazette is published once a week, usually on Wednesdays. *

1ª Extraordinary announcements are published on the day determined by the publishing authority. *

2 Upon request, a printed edition of the Official Gazette can be obtained from the State Chancellery. *

3 Local print media may partially or fully reprint the Official Gazette in their press products. When reprinting, reference must be made to the legal validity of the electronic form. *

* Publishing Bodies

1 Public bodies and private entities that submit announcements for

publication are referred to as publishing bodies.

2 Publishing bodies include, in particular

a. Authorities and organizational units of the Canton, including the

courts;

b. Municipalities;

c. Legal entities under cantonal and communal public law that fulfill a

public task;

d. Private entities, insofar as the Canton or municipalities have entrusted

them with the fulfillment of public tasks, they are obliged to publish

due to legal provisions, or the announcement is in the general

interest.

3 Publishing bodies may also be public bodies of other Cantons or the

Confederation.

4 Publishing bodies are responsible for the substantive and formal accuracy

of the announcements.

* **Reproduction Security and Traceability**

1 The State Chancellery ensures that the notices published in the Official

Gazette

a. actually originate from the publishing bodies initiating them;

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b. are not unduly or unintentionally altered after publication.

2 It takes the necessary technical and organisational measures for this

purpose.

* Accessibility

1 The announcements published in the Official Gazette are made accessible with a search function that particularly allows searching by section, publishing body, area, date, and keywords.

2 Direct access to individual announcements using the search function is possible for 90 days from their publication. Thereafter, the announcements remain accessible to the public in an intermediate archive for a maximum of five years.

3 The publishing bodies may, in justified cases, provide for a longer or shorter duration for the publication of the announcements.

4 Special statutory provisions remain reserved.

* **Correction of Erroneous Publications**

¹ Errors in publications that obviously do not correspond to the decision of the publishing body will be corrected, provided that the correct content can be determined without doubt.

² The corrected publication will be marked as such. It must be linked to the original, erroneous publication.

* Publication Fees

1 The State Chancellery levies fees on publishing bodies for the publication

of notices, unless this is excluded by statutory provisions.

2 The State Chancellery sets the publication fees as a lump sum per

category. The lump sums range from 20 to 200 Swiss Francs. For

notices of significant length or with appendices, it may levy a surcharge.

3 For notices that are not entered online via the Official Gazette application,

the State Chancellery may levy an entry surcharge of 50 Swiss Francs.

* Subscription Fees, Subscriptions

1 The printed edition of the Official Gazette can be obtained from the State Chancellery individually or as a subscription.

2 The fee is three Swiss francs per issue.

3 A subscription can be ordered at any time. The minimum subscription period is three months. Thereafter, the subscription can be terminated at any time effective for the next possible issue.

4 Invoicing for the subscription occurs annually at the end of the year or upon termination.

Jurisdiction

1 The execution of the Publication Act and this Ordinance is incumbent upon the

State Chancellery.

2 It ensures understandable language and provides for a contemporary

presentation as well as a citizen-friendly accessibility of the content.

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