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  "title_number": "22",
  "section_number": "204",
  "citation": "R.S. 22:204",
  "heading": "Service",
  "text": "Except as hereinafter authorized, funeral services and supplies only can be furnished by any association operating hereunder and payment therefor shall be made to the undertaker or funeral-directing firm furnishing the funeral and not the family of the deceased. The funeral services and supplies shall be furnished by the undertaker or funeral-directing firm named in the bylaws of the association but in a case of emergency the undertaker or firm so named, upon being notified of the death of a policyholder, may select another undertaker or firm to provide the services and supplies, in which event payment of the stipulated benefit shall be made in cash to the undertaker or funeral-directing firm named in the bylaws of the association.",
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      "name": "REQUIREMENTS FOR INSURERS AND OTHER RISK BEARING ENTITIES"
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  "acts_citations_raw": "Acts 1958, No. 125; Redesignated from R.S. 22:344 by Acts 2008, No. 415, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2009; Acts 2009, No. 503, §1.",
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