Family holiday homes provide regular care for children by organising a variety of recreational and educational leisure activities. They provide adults with a programme of socio-cultural and leisure activities designed to encourage the development of social life and facilitate integration into the local community.
Some of the communal facilities used for family sports and leisure activities may not belong to the family holiday home. When they belong to a local authority or third party, a multi-year agreement must be signed between the holiday family home and the local authority or third party concerned.
All premises and facilities must comply with current planning, building, health and safety regulations, in particular the decree of 30 January 1978 on special building regulations for collectively managed leisure accommodation.
Associations, unions or federations, public or local authorities, social security bodies and, in general, all non-profit organisations may apply for approval for their family homes.
Applications for approval must be sent to the prefect of the département in which the holiday family home is located.
The prefect of the département in which the family holiday home is located may, under conditions defined by decree, after consulting the département’s tourist action commission, grant definitive approval or provisional approval for a probationary period of one year, renewable once.
Family holiday homes that meet the conditions listed in this sub-section may be approved in accordance with the procedures laid down by an order issued jointly by the ministers responsible for social affairs and tourism.
The Prefect may, at any time, carry out the necessary checks to verify that the conditions required for approval are still being met. If this is not the case, the Prefect may issue a warning or order the temporary or permanent withdrawal of approval after consulting the Departmental Commission for Tourist Activities. An appeal against this decision may be lodged with the Minister for Social Affairs. Such penalties may not…
A refuge is an establishment open to the public within the meaning of the article R. 143-2 du code de la construction et de l’habitation, whether manned or unmanned, situated at altitude in an isolated location. Its isolation is characterised by the absence of access either by road or by ski lift open to the public and by its inaccessibility for at least part of the year to emergency vehicles…
The refuge provides collective accommodation for people passing through. The accommodation capacity of a refuge is limited to 150 people. Minors may be accommodated there. When minors, accommodated in an unguarded refuge, take part in the reception mentioned inarticle L. 227-4 of the Code de l’Action Sociale et des Familles, they must be accompanied by a member of the team supervising the said reception. In addition to the facilities required…
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