Book IV: Organisations and special insurance schemes

Interested owners must enclose the following documents and information with their claim for compensation: 1. A certified copy of the deed of transfer by which they acquired the damaged property, accompanied by the reply given by the land registry to a request for information or an extract from the land register issued by the judicial court in whose jurisdiction the property is located, making it possible to establish the origin…

I. – When it receives a claim for compensation, the guarantee fund shall inform the party presumed responsible for the damage, the prefect, the court seised if legal action has been taken by the owner concerned and the persons designated in the declaration of honour referred to in the previous article. Within a maximum period of one month and at its own expense, it shall arrange for an expert appraisal…

Once the surveyor(s) have submitted a description of the damage and the other conclusions of the survey, the guarantee fund will pay, within a maximum of three months from the date of submission or, for the properties referred to in II of article R. 421-75 located within the perimeter of the mining disaster, from the date of publication of the order declaring the state of the mining disaster, up to…

For the buildings mentioned in II of article R. 421-75 located within the perimeter of the mining disaster, when it is not possible to restore the building on the same plot of land and that, as a result, in application of the provisions of II of article L. 421-17 of the Insurance Code, compensation enables the owner of the damaged building to recover ownership of a building of equivalent consistency…