Key legal question
Whether the Geneva executive regulation on smoking bans had a sufficient constitutional or legal basis
Extracted holding
No. The regulation was a substitution ordinance without a valid legal basis, and the constitution did not allow the State Council to enact the contested rules directly.
Extracted reasoning
The constitution required an implementing statute for essential matters such as exceptions, enforcement and sanctions. The regulation contained primary rules on scope, inspections and fines that had to be set by the legislature, not the executive.