Subsection 4: Funeral equipment

The deposit and stay in the mortuary room of a public or private health establishment of the body of a person who has died there are free of charge for the first three days following the death.

The staff of public bodies, companies or associations and their establishments authorised in accordance with article L. 2223-23, authorised by any person who is entitled to provide for the funeral, have access, under the conditions laid down by the establishment’s internal regulations, to mortuary rooms for the deposit and removal of bodies, for the practice of the conservation treatments mentioned in 3° of Article L. 2223-19 and funeral grooming.

Public or private health establishments must have at least one mortuary room whenever they register an average annual number of deaths at least equal to two hundred. The condition defined in the previous paragraph is assessed in the light of the average number of deaths occurring in each of the establishments in question over the last three calendar years. A healthcare establishment ceases to be subject to the obligation set…

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…