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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.

Acts 1958, No. 125; Redesignated from La. Rev. Stat. 22:344 by Acts 2008, No. 415, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2009; Acts 2009, No. 503, §1.