The funeral financing formulas expressly provide for the capital paid to the beneficiary to be used to cover the cost of the funeral of the subscriber or member.
No surcharge may be levied under any title or by any intermediary on cemetery concessions, municipal taxes and fees of any kind.
Any clause in a contract providing for funeral services in advance without the detailed and personalised content of these services being defined is deemed unwritten. Any contract providing for funeral services in advance shall specify the conditions for the allocation of technical and financial profits, in accordance with Article L. 132-5 of the Insurance Code. Each year, when it is positive, an amount is allocated to it corresponding to a…
A national file is created to centralise contracts providing for funeral services in advance taken out by individuals with the companies referred to in article L. 310-1 of the Insurance Code and the mutual insurers and unions mentioned in Article L. 111-1 of the Mutual Code. The terms and conditions for the application of this article, including the length of time the information recorded is kept, are determined by decree…
The fact of managing, in law or in fact, a public authority, company, association or establishment without the authorisation provided for in articles L. 2223-23, L. 2223-41 and L. 2223-43 or when it is suspended or withdrawn pursuant to article L. 2223-25 is punishable by a fine of 75,000 euros. The violation of the provisions of articles L. 2223-31 à L. 2223-34 is punishable by a fine of 75,000 euros….
In order to guarantee the contracting party or subscriber of a funeral services package in advance full and complete freedom of choice throughout his or her life, whether the contract is an individual contract or membership of a group contract within the meaning of Article L. 141-1 of the Insurance Code, the contract must explicitly provide for the option for the contracting party or the subscriber to change the nature…
Corporate entities held criminally liable, under the conditions set out in Article 121-2 of the Criminal Code, the offences defined in Article L. 2223-35 shall incur, in addition to the fine in accordance with the procedures laid down by Article 131-38 of the Penal Code, the penalties set out in 2° to 9° of the’article 131-39 of the same code. The prohibition referred to in 2° of article 131-39 of…
The provisions of articles L. 2223-35 and L. 2223-36 do not apply to public authorities which, pursuant to a legislative or regulatory text, are required either to provide all or part of funeral operations, or to finance them.
The purpose of funeral chambers is to receive, prior to burial or cremation, the bodies of deceased persons. The premises where the undertaking or association managing the funeral home offers the other services listed in Article L. 2223-19 must be separate from those housing the funeral home. A violation of the provisions of the previous paragraph is punishable by a fine of 75,000 euros.
Public or private health establishments that meet the conditions laid down by decree in the Conseil d’Etat must have a mortuary in which the bodies of people who have died there must be deposited. However, the mortuary chamber may incidentally receive, for a fee, the bodies of persons who have died outside these establishments if there is no funeral chamber nearby. The provisions of article L. 2223-38 do not apply…
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