Residents Registration Act (LCH) - Purpose and Designations [ 3, 7 ] (LCH)

**1. Control of Residents in Municipalities**

1. The control of residents in the municipalities provides public administrations that require it for the fulfillment of their tasks with the information managed in its register pursuant to this law.

1bis. The insured person's number according to the Federal Law on Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (LAVS) [A] is communicated in accordance with Article 9 of the implementing law for the Federal Law on the Harmonization of Resident Registers and Other Official Personal Registries (LVLHR) [B].

2. Municipal regulations may establish more extensive control.

3. In this law, the generic masculine is used to refer to both sexes.

1. The law applies to Swiss nationals and foreigners.

2. It supplements for the latter the special legislation that concerns them [C].

1. The municipal residents' register contains all the elements stipulated by federal legislation concerning the harmonization of registers, as well as by this law.

1. Anyone who resides for more than three consecutive months or more than three months per year in a municipality of the canton is required to report their arrival there.

2. If this condition is met in multiple municipalities, the report shall be made in each of them.

3. When a stay of more than three months is foreseeable from the outset, the report shall take place within eight days following the arrival.

1. The declaration provides information on

a. the insured number within the meaning of Article 50c of the Federal Act of 20 December 1946 on Old-Age and Survivors' Insurance (OASI) [A];

b. the identity (official name of the person and other names registered in the civil registry, all given names in the exact order, date and place of birth, parentage, place(s) of origin, sex) of the interested party;

c. the address and mailing address, including the postal code and locality, the EWID housing identifier, as well as the housing number (Art. 10 PSSRA) if it exists;

d. the civil status;

e. membership of a religious community recognized by public law or otherwise recognized by the canton;

f. the nationality;

g. the type of permit, if the person is of foreign nationality;

h. the identity of the spouse or registered partner and minor children living in the same household;

i. the date of arrival in the municipality;

j. the previous and any other places of residence;

k. establishment or stay in the municipality;

l. the municipality of establishment or stay;

m. the name and address of the employer, failing that, the place of work.

2. The information must be provided mandatorily, with the exception of details relating to religious affiliation and the employer or place of work, which are optional. They can be corrected free of charge and at any time upon request of the interested party.

1. International officials reporting to the residents' control must be registered.

1. Any move, including within the same building, any change of civil status, address, or mailing address including the routing number must be reported within eight days.

1. Anyone who ceases to reside in the municipality or whose duration of stay no longer reaches three months per year is required to promptly notify their departure, the date, and their destination.

1. The declaration of the spouse or registered partner and the holder of parental authority is valid for the other spouse or partner and for minor children, as long as these individuals live as a common household.

2. Persons who reach the age of majority are subject to the same formalities as a new arrival, even if they continue to reside in their parents' household.

**1. When declaring their arrival in a municipality, a Swiss citizen is generally required to present either a certificate of origin, an individual civil status certificate, or a family certificate issued less than six months ago.**

**2. A foreign national is, in principle, required to produce an identity document recognized under federal law. If they already hold a short-term, residency, or settlement permit, they must present it.**

**3. The production of the family certificate or a partnership certificate is, in principle, required when the spouse, registered partner, or minor children are included in the declaration of arrival.**

**4. An individual (Swiss or foreign) whose data has already been recorded in the cantonal register of persons (RCPers) is exempt from producing the identity documents mentioned in paragraphs 1 to 3. Only the presentation of a valid identity document may be required. However, this exemption does not apply if it is found by the person or the official that an error was made during the data entry in the RCPers and that these need to be corrected.**

1. The competent office shall record the following data in the residents' register within the meaning of the HRA [B]

a. the data provided within the meaning of this law;

b. the number assigned by the Federal Statistical Office (hereinafter: FSO) to the municipality and the official name of the municipality;

c. the building identifier (EGID) according to the FSO's Federal Register of Buildings and Dwellings;

d. the dwelling identifier (EWID) according to the FSO's Federal Register of Buildings and Dwellings, the household of which the person is a member, and the household category;

e. the person's right to vote and to be elected at federal, cantonal, and communal levels;

f. the date of the person's death.

2. The office shall indicate in particular whether the person is established in the municipality or is merely staying there.

3. A person is deemed to be established in the place where the residents' registration office has registered them as their primary residence; in the absence of such registration, the place where the center of their interests (main place of residence) is located shall be decisive. There can only be one place of establishment.

4. The office shall ensure that persons living in collective households within the meaning of Article 2, letter a) of the Federal Ordinance on Register Harmonization are registered in the residents' register.

5. The office shall transmit the recorded data according to the rules prescribed by the Vaud Law of 2 February 2010 on the application of the HRA.

1. The municipality may retain the original documents that are presented to it.

2. If the municipality has retained them, it returns the original documents to their holders when they announce their departure.

1. Declarations concerning minors living outside the household of their parents and the interdicted shall be the responsibility of the legal representative.

1. Inmates remain registered under the population control of the place where they were residing prior to incarceration, unless they are prohibited. In such cases, their guardians provide for their registration at the guardianship jurisdiction.

1. Anyone who accommodates third parties for remuneration is required to immediately report their arrivals and departures using the forms provided at their disposal.

2. Property owners or their agents are required to report without delay, but no later than within 15 days, to the municipal residents' registration office every entry and exit of tenants, including within the same building.

3. Recognized healthcare facilities, penal execution and measures facilities, as well as individuals who accommodate third parties free of charge, are not subject to these reporting requirements, as long as the stay of their guests does not exceed three months.

4. In hotels, guesthouses, and other similar establishments, monitoring is conducted in accordance with the public establishments police law [D].

**1. Each municipality is required to have a resident control office, for which it hires the personnel and bears the operating expenses.**

1. The residents' registration office is notably responsible for

1. managing declarations of arrival and departure, civil status communications, notices of change of situation, and landlord announcements;

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3. ensuring the communications required by law;

4. keeping the register of resident population up to date;

5. collaborating, in accordance with directives issued by the Department of Finance, in the establishment of censuses and statistics.

1. The Population Service (hereinafter: the service) oversees the activity of municipal offices.

2. It acts by means of directives and specific instructions.

3. It supplies, at cost price, the forms whose use it prescribes.

4. It conducts or has the prefect conduct periodic inspections of the municipal offices.

5. It is responsible for the transfer of changes originating from federal registers (civil status, foreign police) to the municipal offices.

1. The service notably establishes guidelines on the duties of municipal offices, the issuance of certificates, the communication of information, and the maintenance of records.

1. The cantonal police and the local police collaborate in the investigations and searches conducted by the service and the communal offices.

2. The public administrations of the canton, employers, as well as every private individual, are obliged to provide the service and the communal offices with any information they possess regarding the identity and place of establishment or residence of inhabitants.

3. The following persons shall gratuitously provide the residents' registration services, upon request, with information concerning persons required to register, if the latter fail to fulfill their obligations within the meaning of articles 3 to 7

a. employers for their employees;

b. property owners or their agents, for tenants who reside in their properties, who move in or move out;

c. hosts, for persons residing in their household.

1. The residents' control office shall automatically communicate the data mentioned in Article 4 to the municipality reported as the place of origin or as the place of destination.

2. The cantonal register of persons is updated based on the data provided by the arriving municipality.

3. The exchange of data between residents' control offices and with other authorities is conducted according to the rules prescribed by the LVLHR [B].

1. The residents' control office is authorized to provide individuals with information on the civil status, date of birth, address, and full mailing address, dates of arrival and departure, previous place of residence, and the destination of a specifically named person.

2. The systematic communication of data for commercial or advertising purposes is prohibited.

3. The department in charge of the population [E] and, subject to regulatory provisions, the municipality may, however, authorize the transmission of information to private organizations to facilitate the execution of tasks of general interest.

4. The information is provided from the registers without warranty, and any potential inaccuracies do not entail any liability on the part of the State or the municipalities.

1. The population control office shall communicate to the parishes of the Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton of Vaud, to those of the Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Federation of the Canton of Vaud, and to the Israelite Community of Lausanne and the Canton of Vaud the arrival or departure of any person who has declared belonging to the Reformed, Roman Catholic, or Israelite confession and authorizes the communication of these data.

2. This communication is limited to the following information

a. surname, first name, date of birth, marital status, and address of adults, parentage;

b. nationality and origin;

c. membership of the applicant religious community recognized by public law or otherwise recognized by the canton;

d. surname, first name, sex, date of birth of children.

3. These data are intended solely for the Churches' files and may not be used for any other purpose.

4. This article also applies to any other religious community recognized as being of public interest that requests it.

1. Administrative acts performed by the residents' control offices give rise to the collection of fees, according to a rate determined by the Council of State [F].

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3. The Department of Finance sets the compensation paid to the municipalities by the State when the establishment of a census or statistic (art. 17, ch. 5) requires them to perform a significant amount of additional work.

4. The municipal regulations and rates concerning residents' control must be approved by the head of the department to which the service is attached [E].

1. Any person who fails to make the declarations required of them, makes an inaccurate or incomplete declaration, or otherwise contravenes the provisions of this law, shall be liable to a fine of twenty to two thousand francs.

2. Within its jurisdiction, the municipal authority shall impose the fine in accordance with the law on contraventions.

3. If the municipal authority believes that the offense warrants a fine exceeding its jurisdiction, it shall refer the case to the prefect, who shall decide in accordance with the law on contraventions.

1. Anyone who has fulfilled the obligations imposed by the law of November 22, 1939, on the control of inhabitants is deemed to have satisfied the obligations of the present law until an event occurs that, according to the latter, requires a new notification.

1. The Law of November 22, 1939, on the Regulation of Inhabitants is repealed.

1. The Council of State is entrusted with the execution of the present law. It shall publish the text in accordance with Article 27, number 2, of the Cantonal Constitution and shall set the date of its entry into force by decree.