Zurich collection of laws
The Zurich collection of laws consists of the Official Collection (OS) and the loose-leaf collection (LS) of the Canton of Zurich .
The OS is the chronological collection of cantonal law. Decrees of cantonal institutions with general abstract norms are published, which impose obligations or grant rights on persons or regulate the organization, the competence and the tasks of the authorities or the procedure. Its equivalent at the federal level is the Official Compilation of Federal Law .
The LS contains the cantonal law published in the OS, sorted by subject area. It is updated periodically to a specific reference date. It corresponds to the systematic collection of federal law at the federal level.
The State Chancellery is responsible for the publication of both collections. The legal basis is the Publications Act and the associated Publication Ordinance.
Since 1999 the Zurich State Chancellery has also published the collection of laws with the currently applicable law on the Internet. The entire Zurich collection of laws since 1803 is available online in full text via the quick access offer of the Zurich State Archives .
history
The first official collection of laws in the canton of Zurich began in the mediation period in 1803 (today known as OS AF for "Old Series"). After six volumes, this series was discontinued at the beginning of the restoration in 1814; It was replaced by a “New Series” (OS NF) with the cantonal constitution of 1814 . This in turn ended after four volumes when regeneration began in Zurich . With the liberal cantonal constitution of 1831 , the OS series, which continues to this day, was founded.
As an overview of the law that was still in force, the “Collected Works of Zurich Legislation” (cited as Sa) was published in 1913/1914. This was followed in 1961 by the seven-volume “Zürcher Gesetzessammlung” (cited as ZG) and in 1981 by the seven-volume “Zürcher Gesetzessammlung” (cited as GS). With the latter, all still valid edicts received a serial number. This determines the systematic classification within the loose-leaf collection introduced in 1993 and continuously updated since then.
