Key legal question
Whether the Neuchâtel notary law provided a sufficient legal basis to prohibit board memberships in commercial or industrial companies.
Extracted holding
Yes. Article 4 LN, read with the incompatibility clause in Article 3 LN, sufficiently authorized the restriction; exhaustive enumeration was unnecessary.
Extracted reasoning
The statute forbids any activity incompatible with independent and impeccable notarial practice and expressly lists commercial and industrial activities as incompatible. Clarifying the scope of that prohibition is a matter of interpretation, not legislative omission.