Questão jurídica principal
Whether the canton’s departments may themselves authorize additional persons to sign within their field of responsibility despite the wording of § 20 and § 31(2) of the Organizational Act.
Decisão extraída
The 2005 revision of § 31 limited the Regierungsrat’s exclusive competence; departments may grant signature authority to further persons for their own area of responsibility.
Fundamentação extraída
There is a tension between § 20, which assigns signature authority regulation to the Regierungsrat and register-keeping to the Staatskanzlei, and § 31(2), whose wording empowers departments to authorize additional persons. The former exclusive competence of the Regierungsrat was curtailed by the revised § 31.