1 Overhanging branches and roots encroaching beyond the boundary may be severed and kept by the neighbour if they are damaging his or her property and have not been removed within a reasonable time following his or her complaint in relation thereto.
2 If a landowner tolerates branches overhanging cultivated or developed land, he or she is entitled to the fruit that grows on them.
3 These provisions do not apply to adjoining parcels of woodland.
1 Die Kantone sind befugt, die Abstände festzusetzen, die bei Grabungen und Bauten zu beobachten sind.
2 Es bleibt ihnen vorbehalten, weitere Bauvorschriften aufzustellen.
This document is not an official publication. Only the publication of the Federal Chancellery is legally binding.
Dies ist keine amtliche Veröffentlichung. Massgebend ist allein die Veröffentlichung durch die Bundeskanzlei.