Each burial takes place in a separate grave. Each grave is 1.50 metres to 2 metres deep by 80 centimetres wide. It is then filled with well-trodden earth.
The pits are 30 to 40 centimetres apart at the sides, and 30 to 50 centimetres apart at the head and feet.
The opening of graves for new burials only takes place every five years.
Where the cemetery does not offer sufficient space for the construction of the ossuary referred to in the first paragraph of article L. 2223-4, the remains may be transferred by decision of the mayor to the ossuary of another cemetery belonging to the municipality. Where the commune is a member of a syndicate of communes, a district or an urban community, the transfer may take place under the same conditions…
In the case provided for in the third paragraph of article L. 2223-5, the decision to fill wells is taken by order of the prefect at the request of the mayor.
No inscription may be placed on tombstones or funerary monuments without first being submitted to the mayor for approval.
The town council may decide to allocate all or part of a cemetery for the deposit or burial of urns and the scattering of the ashes of cremated bodies. .
In the event of the transfer of a cemetery, the concession holders are entitled to obtain, in the new cemetery, a plot equal in area to the plot that had been granted to them. In accordance with 14° of article L. 2321-2, the remains that were buried there are transported at the expense of the commune.
Differentiated tariffs for each category of concessions are set by the municipal council of the commune. These tariffs may, in each class, be progressive, according to the extent of the area granted, for the part of this area that exceeds 2 square metres.
In accordance with article L. 2223-17, a perpetual plot may not be deemed to be in a state of abandonment before the expiry of a period of thirty years from the date of the plot deed. The procedure provided for in the articles L. 2223-4, R. 2223-13 to R. 2223-21 can only be engaged ten years after the last burial made in the conceded plot.
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