---
urn: urn:us-la:rs:22:204
citation: "R.S. 22:204"
status: active
breadcrumb: "Title 22 › Chapter 2 › Part I › Subpart G"
acts_citations:
  - { year: 1958, number: 125, section: None, effective_date: null, role: enactment }
  - { year: 2009, number: 503, section: 1, effective_date: null, role: amendment }
---

# Service

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.