BOOK V: SPECIAL PROVISIONS

The mayor may prescribe: 1° To close or fill in quarries, clay pits, sand pits, ballast pits, marl pits, lime pits, clay pits, mine shafts, excavation holes or holes resulting from the uprooting of stumps; 2° To mark with visible signs, to prevent their approach, holes made in the ice in places indicated by the authority.

The mayor may issue orders: 1° When ordering local precautions on objects entrusted to his vigilance and authority by 1°, 3° and 4° of Article L. 2212-2, by the second, third and fourth paragraphs of article L. 2542-4 and by article L. 2542-5 ; 2° When it is a matter of republishing police laws and regulations or reminding citizens to observe them.

The conditions under which field wardens may be recruited are defined by the provisions of Chapter III of Title II of Book V of the Internal Security Code.

In communes where the State police force has been instituted, the mayor remains vested with the police powers conferred on municipal administrations by article L. 2542-2 for all matters relating to 1°, 2° for all matters relating to neighbourhood noise, 4°, 6° and 7° of article L. 2212-2 as well as: 1° The method of transporting deceased persons, burials and exhumations, the maintenance of good order and decency in cemeteries…

When the minister of a religion, on any pretext whatsoever, refuses his ministry for the burial of a body, the mayor, either ex officio or at the request of the family, appoints another minister of the same religion to perform these duties. In all cases, the mayor is responsible for having the body carried, presented, deposited and buried.

In communes where several faiths are professed, each faith has a separate burial place. Where there is only one cemetery, it is divided by walls, hedges or ditches into as many parts as there are different faiths, with a separate entrance for each, and proportioning this space to the number of inhabitants of each faith.

The local authorities are especially responsible for maintaining the enforcement of laws and regulations that prohibit unauthorised exhumations and for preventing any disorder being committed in burial places, or any act being permitted there that is contrary to the respect due to the memory of the dead.