In the collections of interesting facts about Switzerland, one can often find a mention of a strange ban. We checked whether it really exists.
According to various sources, in Switzerland residents of apartment buildings after 10 pm are faced with a rather unpleasant restriction. At night, they allegedly cannot use the drain mechanism of the toilet and take shower, since these actions violate the law, the purpose of which is the struggle against the noise in the quiet time of the day. Violation of the law, approved, threatens the undisciplined residents of large fines.
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The behavior of the inhabitants of Switzerland in their own housing is regulated by laws and in the case of a lease - the terms of the contract. The latter for this country is especially relevant - according to official data, about 60% of the locals rent an apartment or house.
Swiss Civil Code does not impose any specific restrictions on the behavior of people in their dwellings. True, Article 684 says: “In the exercise of property rights, including the right to conduct business on their land, landowners are required to avoid any actions that are damaged to neighboring objects. In particular, all harmful influences that are not justified by the location, characteristics of the territory or local customs - air pollution by emissions of harmful vapors, noise, vibration, radiation or deprivation of solar or daylight - are prohibited. ”
However, as we see, the formulation of this law is quite streamlined: it is in no way connected with the time of day, specific noise indicators, and even more so with the bathroom or toilet. The same goes for the Swiss Federal Environmental Protection Law, where there is also no specifics about the noise effect, and the case with the washing of the toilet or the adoption of the shower is not considered separately. Thus, Swiss legislation does not establish such restrictions.
A little specifics appear in the legislation at the municipal level. So, in Decree Zurich’s police, which entered into force in 2012, states that the so -called “night silence” lasts from 22:00 to 7:00 the next day, and in the summer on Fridays and Saturdays - from 23:00. At this time, “destructive behavior” is prohibited - however, the meaning of this term is not determined. As said in an interview with the resource Blick Housing expert Fabian Glor from the Swiss Association of tenants, such a vague restriction is valid in many regions of the country. However, he and another specialist, Thomas Oberle, they say that at the level of specific households, owners can interpret the law at their discretion and establish their own specific restrictions.
Nevertheless, Oberle, and Glor, and the legal adviser of the Swiss Association of tenants Rudy Spondlin assure that things like washing in the toilet or the adoption of a shower cannot become the basis for complaints to law enforcement agencies, no matter what is written in Rules specific household. Neighbors or owners will simply have to come to terms with the fact that these processes cause noise heard in other apartments. The reverse practice is unknown to these specialists, and the attempt to apply it will be considered as an infringement of the rights of residents.
There is confirmation of their words on site Association itself. It says that the internal rules of households, even prescribed in the contract (and only such can have legal force), are valid only if they have the actual reason and are proportionate. For prohibitions for prohibitions are illegal, and the rules are subordinate to common sense. As a result, as stated on the site, people have the right to ignore, for example, a clause that the tenant cannot take a shower at night.
Thus, the Swiss laws do not regulate the soul of the soul or the use of washing after 22:00 in apartment buildings. The applicability of such restrictions even at the local level is denied by local real estate lease specialists, and only those people who produce really loud noise can face problems - for example, if they move furniture at night. But in such cases state sites Consult First talk to the neighbors and only then contact the police if necessary. Separately, we note that in houses built using modern technologies, with thick and dense walls, such a problem is less relevant. And if the bike abroad about an unusual ban is among the most popular facts about Switzerland, then in local media it is included in the number The most famous myths About the country.
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