TITLE II: MUNICIPAL SERVICES

Subject to article R. 2223-92, public or private health establishments must directly manage their mortuary rooms.

Without prejudice to the provisions of article R. 2223-91, health establishments may meet their obligation to have a mortuary room by using the options open to them in terms of hospital cooperation. .

As far as possible, the family shall have access to the deceased before the body is deposited in the mortuary without this deposit being delayed, as a result, by more than ten hours as provided for in the fifth paragraph of article R. 2223-76.

The director in the case of a public establishment or its qualified body in the case of a private establishment sets the prices for stays in mortuary rooms beyond the three-day period provided for in l’article R. 2223-89.

When the transfer of the body to the mortuary room requires leaving the grounds of a health establishment or an accommodation establishment for the elderly or one of their sites, the transport without coffining is carried out with the agreement of the head of the establishment, under the conditions provided for in 2° and 3° of article R. 2213-8-1 and in article R. 2213-9. When the transfer referred to in…

An order of the minister responsible for health determines the operating conditions of mortuary chambers.

Health establishments other than those mentioned in Article R. 2223-90, as well as establishments providing accommodation for the elderly mentioned in 6° of the Code de l’action sociale et des familles, may create and manage mortuary rooms under the conditions defined in articles R. 2223-91 to R. 2223-96.

Health establishments and the establishments mentioned in Article L. 312-1of the Code de l’action sociale et des familles may not be authorised to manage the funeral chambers mentioned in Article L. 2223-38. They may not authorise in any form whatsoever the installation of a burial chamber on their premises or on one of their plots.