Subsection 2: Concessions.

Thirty days after publication and notification of the decree, the mayor may have the materials of the monuments and funerary emblems remaining on the plot removed. He shall have the remains of the interred persons exhumed. For each plot, these remains are placed in an appropriately sized coffin.

The land occupied by the concessions taken over may be the subject of a new concession contract only when the requirements of articles L. 2223-4, R. 2223-6, R. 2223-19 and R. 2223-20 have been observed.

The articles L. 2223-4, R. 2223-12 to R. 2223-21 do not derogate from the provisions governing military burials. When a person whose death certificate bears the entry “Died for France” duly recorded has been buried in a perpetual or centenary plot, the plot may not be repossessed before the expiry of a period of fifty years from the date of burial. This provision does not apply if a centenary plot…

A centenary or perpetual plot may not be repossessed if the municipality or a public institution is obliged to maintain it in execution of a duly accepted donation or testamentary disposition.