In the context of the laws of separation of the churches and State, the law of the bearing December 28th, 1904 abrogation of the laws conferring on the factories and consistories the Monopole of the burials allotted to the communes the service external of the Undertaking.

It was thus a question of allowing laic burials or in rites other than those of the religions recognized before within the framework of the legal settlement.

The common have thus always the responsibility to have cemeteries open to all the late ones, without distinction but they do not have any more the monopoly of the organization of the funerary operations.

If the cemeteries are necessarily managed directly by the communes or their regroupings, the service external of the undertaking was frequently delegated until 1998 (end of the transitional periods of the law of January 8th, 1993) to companies, such this company funerary pole of Lyons of Water until 1997 General Undertaking (GFH).

The equipment such as the Crématorium is frequently in deputy management. The funerary rooms which propose formulas of lodging of the body belong to the funeral parlors

Contents of the public service

In accordance with the provision of the article L 2223-19 of the Code gébéral of the territorial collectivities:
the service external of the undertaking is a public service mission including/understanding:
1º the transport of the bodies before and after beer setting;
2º the organization of funerals;
3º the care of conservation;
4º supply of the covers, the coffins and their accessories interior and external as well as ballot boxes cinéraires;
5º (removed Subparagraph)
6º the management and the use of the funerary rooms;
7º supply of the hearses and the cars of mourning;
8º supply of personnel and the objects and services necessary to funerals, burials, exhumations and cremations, except for the funerary plates, religious emblems, flowers, various work of printing works and the funerary marble-mason's yard.

This mission can be assured by the communes, directly or by way of deputy management. The communes or their délégataires do not profit from any right of exclusiveness for the exercise in this mission. It can be also assured by any other company or profit association the enabling envisaged with the article L. 2223-23 ".

Other funerary proposals known as “free” are left with the care of the families. They include/understand in particular the transport of the bodies before beer setting, the interior trimmings of the coffins, the decorative plates, crosses or engravings.

See too

Related articles

• funerary Rite
• Trade union of the communes of the Paris region for the funerary service (SIFUREP)
• Legislative texts of the site of the French Association of funerary information

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