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Showing 49114920 of 6833 articles for Art. L 313-7 · CGCT Art. L 2122-22

French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Professional capacity and training (R).

Article D2223-39

Regies, companies, associations and their establishments must send the prefect to whom they are applying for the authorisation provided for in Article L. 2223-23:-for each of their agents referred to…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Professional capacity and training (R).

Article R2223-49

The thanatopractors who hold the national thanatopractor diploma provided for in articles D. 2223-122 to D. 2223-131 are deemed to have the professional training required by this paragraph to carry ou…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 5: Diplomas provided for in Article L. 2223-25-1

Article D2223-55-6

The award of the diploma confers on its holder the professional aptitude to practise the profession in question.The diploma is awarded by the jury provided for in article D. 2223-55-11, having regard…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: General provisions (R).

Article R2223-68

Managers of funeral chambers and crematoria file their dated and signed internal regulations, as soon as they are adopted and whenever they are amended, with the prefect who issued them with the autho…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Funeral homes (R).

Article D2223-81

The display room is protected from the view of neighbours or outsiders by the use of non-transparent glazing or, where appropriate, any other permanent visual obscuring mechanism. The fixed partitions…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 3: Mortuary rooms (R).

Article R2223-90

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 previo…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 4: Crematoria (R).

Article D2223-103

I.-Within sixty days of the completion of one of the inspections provided for in the fifth and sixth paragraphs of article D. 2223-102, the accredited inspection body shall submit the compliance inspe…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: Vehicles used for transporting bodies after coffining (R).

Article D2223-119

I. - Any person offering for sale a new or second-hand vehicle for transporting the body after coffining is required to have it checked, at their own expense, for compliance with the requirements of a…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 2: Cinerary sites

Article R2223-23-1

If the cemetery site is moved, the plot holders are entitled to obtain a plot with identical characteristics in the new cemetery site.

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Informing families (R).

Article R2223-26

Estimates must state the commune of the place of death, the place of committal, the funeral service, burial or cremation, and the date on which the estimates were drawn up.

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