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Art. 357 Schweizerische Strafprozessordnung (StPO)
StPO; 8. Titel: Besondere Verfahren; 1. Kapitel: Strafbefehlsverfahren, Übertretungsstrafverfahren
Art. 357 StPO
Die zur Verfolgung und Beurteilung von Übertretungen eingesetzten Verwaltungsbehörden haben die Befugnisse der Staatsanwaltschaft.
Das Verfahren richtet sich sinngemäss nach den Vorschriften über das Strafbefehlsverfahren.
Ist der Übertretungstatbestand nicht erfüllt, so stellt die Übertretungsstrafbehörde das Verfahren mit einer kurz begründeten Verfügung ein.
Ist der zu beurteilende Sachverhalt nach Auffassung der Übertretungsstrafbehörde als Verbrechen oder Vergehen strafbar, so überweist sie den Fall der Staatsanwaltschaft.
Gerichtsentscheide zu dieser Bestimmung (139)
PKG 2015 19 · gr (Art. 357 Abs. 2 StPO)
Invalidation of Penalty Order for Procedural Deficiencies and Insufficient Factual Basis
Applied to confirm the mandatory application of signature requirements from the ordinary penalty order procedure to the contravention penalty order procedure.
P/6901/2025 · ge (art. 357 al. 1 CPP)
Appeal Regarding Late Opposition to Summary Penal Order
Cited in conjunction with art. 354 regarding the finality of the penal order if no opposition is filed.
P/6916/2025 · ge (art. 357 al. 1 CPP)
Police Court Decision on Late Opposition to Speeding Fine Upheld
Cited to define the administrative authorities' attributions as those of the public prosecutor in summary penalty procedures.
P/6916/2025 · ge (art. 357 al. 2 CPP)
Police Court Decision on Late Opposition to Speeding Fine Upheld
Cited to establish that the summary penalty provisions are applied analogously to contravention procedures.
P/15141/2023 · ge (art. 353 al. 1 let. k CPP, cum art. 357 al. 2 CPP)
Appellant v. Police Tribunal (Procedural Signature Validity)
Cited in the reasoning for finding that the penal order lacked the required formal validity (signature) and thus the appeal was admitted based on this formal defect.
P/15141/2023 · ge (art. 357 al. 1 CPP)
Appellant v. Police Tribunal (Procedural Signature Validity)
Cited in the reasoning regarding the attribution of public prosecutor duties to administrative authorities in summary proceedings.
P/15141/2023 · ge (art. 357 al. 2 CPP)
Appellant v. Police Tribunal (Procedural Signature Validity)
Cited in the reasoning regarding the analogous application of penal order provisions to summary offense proceedings.
UE230315 · zh (Art. 357 Abs. 2 StPO)
Importation of Controlled Substance for Medical Use as "Particularly Light Case"
Mentioned as the procedural basis for the application of misdemeanor procedure rules to the administrative authority's discontinuance decision.
UE230315 · zh (Art. 357 Abs. 3 StPO)
Importation of Controlled Substance for Medical Use as "Particularly Light Case"
Applied by analogy (in conjunction with Art. 319 Abs. 1 lit. e StPO) to justify the administrative authority's power to discontinue the proceedings in misdemeanor cases when no ground for prosecution exists.
UE230315 · zh (Art. 357 StPO)
Importation of Controlled Substance for Medical Use as "Particularly Light Case"
Cited in the reasoning to confirm the administrative authority's jurisdiction as the authority for misdemeanors in the Canton of Zurich.
UH240305 · zh (Art. 357 Abs. 2 StPO)
Appeal Court Rules on Penalty Order Signatures and Timeliness of Objections
Cited to state that proceedings before summary penalty authorities are governed mutatis mutandis by the provisions on the penalty order procedure.
SU240018 · zh (Art. 356 Abs. 5 StPO in Verbindung mit Art. 357 Abs. 1 und 2 StPO)
Traffic Violation Penalty Order Validity Challenge
Cited implicitly as the legal basis for the instruction to remand the case to the Stadtrichteramt for correction of the indictment/penal order, derived from the general mandate in Art. 409 StPO.
P/3926/2024 · ge (art. 357 al. 2 CPP)
Penalty Order Opposition Formalities Case
Contextually mentioned as making art. 354 al. 1 let. a CPP applicable by analogy.
P/17536/2023 · ge (Art. 357 CPP)
Appeal Against Inadmissible Penalty Opposition Based on Formal Defects
Cited as the provision defining the conditions under which an appeal is deemed final if no valid objection is made.
P/19119/2023 · ge (Art. 357 CPP)
Prosecutor v. Defendant (Appeal on Prescription Dismissal)
Cited as being applicable by analogy to contraventions concerning the tribunal deciding on the validity of the opposition.