Ordinance on the Cadastre of Pipelines and Cables (KVLK) - Subject (KVLK)

1. This ordinance regulates the management of municipal utility cadastres and the cantonal overview thereof, as well as the use of the corresponding data.

1. The utility cadastre includes all underground and overhead lines and associated facilities within the area of the canton.

2. Excluded from this are

a) agricultural drainage lines;

b) lines and facilities of minor importance.

3. Lines within railway tracks, as well as closed pipe systems that are located exclusively on a specific site (such as commercial, industrial, or sports areas), do not need to be included in the utility cadastre. However, lines that cross the tracks or the site must be included in the utility cadastre in every case.

1. The Office for Agriculture and Geoinformation (Office) is responsible for supervising the municipal network cadastres.

2. The Office

a) is responsible for issuing directives;

b) receives the current geodata of the utilities for the network cadastre, provided their lines and installations are situated in more than one municipality, and makes these available to the respective data management offices, municipality by municipality;

c) provides a check service and may offer additional tools for quality and data assurance, data exchange, and archiving; and

d) ensures the appropriate publication of the data management offices designated by the municipalities.

1. The municipalities shall designate an appropriate data management office and report this to the authority.

2. Within the framework of building permits and project approvals, the municipalities are required to instruct the project developers to notify the property owners of the disclosure, creation, or alteration of underground conduits and installations.

1. The Data Management Office has the following tasks

a) receiving, quality-checking, and integrating the current geodata of the facilities for the utility cadastre;

b) managing, securing, and archiving the geobase data of the utility cadastre;

c) providing the geobase data from the utility cadastre and derived products;

d) forwarding the geobase data of the utility cadastre via check service to the Office after each update.

2. It may make the utility cadastre accessible to authorized individuals through web-based search, display, and download services in accordance with the Office's instructions.

3. As part of data provision, the Data Management Office informs about the origin and currency of the data and discloses the terms of use as well as the disclaimer.

1. The owners of the works are, subject to the following provisions, free in the collection, updating, and management of their work information.

2. They shall transmit the current geodata of the work to the data management offices for the utility cadastre. If their lines and installations extend over more than one municipality, the data transmission may be made to the office.

3. The transmission of geodata by the works must occur at least annually via the office's check service.

4. The owners of the works must measure or have measured their exposed, unmeasured, or newly constructed lines in the open trench.

1. The instructions are based on the current standards and guidelines of the industry associations.

2. When issuing instructions, the cantonal specialist authorities, the municipalities, and the supra-municipal works must be consulted.

1. The current data from the official survey form the georeference data of the pipeline cadastre.

2. The management of the pipeline cadastre is generally governed by the standard SIA 405 and its guidelines.

1. In the catalog of objects for the pipeline register, the content and structure of the geobase data of the pipeline register are conclusively stipulated in its currently valid version as a subset of the work information.

2. The geodata model for the pipeline register describes in its currently valid version the content according to the object catalog and the data structure in the standardized data description language INTERLIS.

3. The representation model for the pipeline register defines in its currently valid version the graphical representation of the pipeline register.

1. The Utility Cadastre provides information on conduits and installations with their objects and attributes. However, the exact details are subject to the information provided by the respective owner of the works.

2. The Utility Cadastre particularly includes conduits with their aboveground and underground structural installations for the following media

a) Wastewater;

b) Electricity;

c) District heating;

d) Gas;

e) Communication;

f) Water;

g) Other media.

3. Conduits are part of the Utility Cadastre up to the building connection or feed-in point.

1. The office may establish simplified procedures for collecting geobasis data for the line cadastre concerning existing lines and facilities.

1. The geospatial data of the utility cadastre is only partially publicly accessible (Access Authorization Level B according to the Ordinance on Geoinformation).

2. Access is granted to

a) the utility owners involved in the utility cadastre within a municipality;

b) the cantonal, municipal, and federal administrative units, provided that the data from the utility cadastre is needed for fulfilling their legal duties;

c) third parties, if they act on behalf of the canton or municipality or can demonstrate a legitimate interest.

1. The provision of data is carried out by the data management offices.

2. The data must be available at a minimum in INTERLIS and DXF format.

3. When providing geobase data from the pipeline registry and derived products, the data exchange protocol must be delivered to the recipient.

1. The Office generates a digital overview from the geobase data of the pipeline cadastre for administrative internal purposes and for supra-municipal property owners, whose facilities have also been recorded in the pipeline cadastre of the Canton of Graubünden.

1. Data management offices may charge fees for access to the pipeline register in accordance with the Fee Ordinance to the Cantonal Geoinformation Act.

1. The costs incurred by the fulfillment of the tasks of the data management office according to Article 5 shall be borne by the municipalities.

2. The costs for the collection, updating, management, and transmission of the geodata for the pipeline cadastre shall be borne by the respective owner of the works.

3. The retrieval of reference data from the official survey shall be conducted through the cantonal data hub and is free of charge.

1. Any amendment to the directives shall be carried out under the leadership of the canton. The costs for any involvement of interested parties shall be borne by them.

1. The exchange of data between the property owners of the works, the data management office, and the authority is without charge. This includes the use of inspection tools for automated quality control and the use of geoservices.

2. The property owners of the works have free access to the cadaster data regarding other works in those municipalities where they themselves own installations and pipelines that are recorded in the cadaster.

1. The municipalities shall report the designated data management office to the agency by no later than December 31, 2018.

2. The owners of the works are required to transmit the necessary data for maintaining the line cadastre in accordance with this regulation to the data management office or the agency by no later than January 1, 2025.

3. The data management offices are required to maintain the line cadastre in accordance with this regulation by no later than January 1, 2025.