Act on Official Publication Organs (Publikationsgesetz, PuG) - Official Publications Organs (PuG)

1. The official publications of the cantonal authorities are issued through

a) the Official Gazette of the Canton of Solothurn;

b) the Official Collection of Laws and Ordinances of the Canton of Solothurn (GS);

c) the Consolidated Collection of Solothurn Enactments (BGS);

d) extraordinary announcements.

2. The Government Council may designate additional official publication organs for specific subject areas.

1. The Official Gazette of the Canton of Solothurn serves as the publication medium for announcements prescribed by cantonal or federal law.

2. In the Official Gazette, the following must particularly be published

a) Enactments and amendments to enactments according to § 5 paragraph 2;

b) Results of cantonal referendums and elections;

c) Announcements prescribed by cantonal or federal law.

3. The government council regulates the details by ordinance.

1. The Official Gazette is published in electronic form. It may also be obtained in whole or in part in printed form.

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3. The State Chancellery is responsible for editing and administration.

1. Publications under this Act may contain personal data; in particular, they may also contain particularly sensitive personal data pursuant to § 6 paragraph 3 of the Information and Data Protection Act of February 21, 2001, provided that such inclusion is necessary for a publication required by a federal law or a cantonal law.

2. Publications containing personal data must not be accessible on the Internet longer than required and must not contain more information than necessary for their purpose.

3. The governing council shall determine the periods during which publications may be accessed through a search function by means of an ordinance. It shall also establish additional measures to ensure the protection of personal data, taking into account the state of the art.

1. The Official Collection of Laws and Ordinances (GS) is the chronologically updated collection of cantonal law.

2. The following generally binding enactments are published therein

a) the Constitution of the Canton of Solothurn;

b) cantonal laws;

c) ordinances and generally binding resolutions of the Cantonal Council;

d) ordinances and other legislative enactments of cantonal authorities;

e) standard employment contracts and collective labor agreements;

f) legislative agreements concluded with municipalities, other cantons, the federal government, foreign countries, or organizations;

g) legislative enactments of inter-cantonal bodies.

3. The State Chancellery may include additional enactments if there is sufficient public interest in their publication.

1. Once any potential veto or referendum periods have expired without being used and the enactment has been decided, the generally binding decrees and amendments will be published electronically.

2. The legal gazette may also be published wholly or in part in printed form.

1. The Consolidated Collection of Solothurn Decrees (BGS) is the continuously updated and subject-organized collection of the law published in the GS.

2. The BGS is continuously updated by the State Chancellery.

1. The publication is made exclusively electronically.

1. The State Chancellery periodically conducts a systematic review of the BGS in collaboration with the departments.

2. The decrees to be repealed are listed in a collective template and removed from the BGS upon the decision of the competent legislative body.

3. Decrees that have become obviously obsolete, which have not been formally repealed due to the absence of the originally competent legislative body or due to other special circumstances, are listed in a separate collective template and removed from the BGS upon the decision of the Executive Council.

4. The publication is carried out in accordance with §§ 2 and 5.

1. In justified exceptional cases, decrees or parts thereof may be published in the official gazette, GS, and BGS with only the title, source of reference, and place of inspection, particularly in inter-cantonal law, if the concerned bodies themselves undertake the official publications in electronic form or according to rules determined by them.

2. The State Chancellery decides on the form of publication.

1. In cases of particular urgency, to ensure effectiveness, or in the presence of extraordinary circumstances, a publication may be made through print media, radio, television, internet, social media, or other appropriate means using an extraordinary procedure.

2. The regular publication must be carried out as soon as possible thereafter.

1. The Official Gazette, GS and BGS are issued by the State Chancellery.

2. It announces the websites on which the electronic publications are published.

3. It ensures through appropriate measures that the online publication is not altered unlawfully or unintentionally.

1. Access to the electronic version of the Official Gazette, the Legal Gazette (GS), and the Budget Gazette (BGS), as well as downloading content from them for individual processing, is free of charge. For publications in printed form, the Executive Council sets reasonable fees based on the effort involved.

1bis. The Executive Council shall designate by regulation the locations where publications can be inspected.

2. The costs for publications in the Official Gazette shall be borne by the principal.

1. The electronic versions are authoritative. If the content of the BGS does not match the publication in the GS or the Official Gazette, the Official Gazette publication is authoritative.

2. If a text appears in the cantonal publications with only its title, inspection location, and source of reference, the version to which reference is made is authoritative.

1. The State Chancellery corrects contentually insignificant errors in the GS and the BGS informally, provided that their correction neither alters nor distorts the meaning of the provision.

2. Informal corrections are particularly made for grammatical, spelling, and formatting errors, as well as incorrect references.

1. The Effective Date of an Ordinance or an Amendment to an Ordinance is Determined Either at the Time of its Adoption or at a Later Date by the Government Council.

1. Decrees bind individuals only if they have been made known in accordance with this law. If someone is granted rights under a decree, the rights arise upon its entry into force.

2. If a decree is published in the official gazette after its entry into force, obligations arising from it only come into effect the day after its publication.

3. Subject to § 11.

1. The Executive Council is entrusted with the execution.