Article L2321-5 of the French General Code of Local Authorities
The communes whose inhabitants represent, in respect of one year, more than 1% of the parturients or more than 1% of the deceased in a public health establishment comprising a maternity unit and situated on the territory of another commune with less than 10,000 inhabitants contribute financially to the expenditure incurred by this other commune for the keeping of civil status records and the exercise of funeral policing acts if…