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6° 3 with the consent of the ordinary invest the money which is left over after expenses
and which can be profitably allocated for the goals of the juridic person;
7° 3 keep well ordered books of receipts and expenditures;
8° 3 draw up a report on their administration at the end of each year;
9° 3 duly arrange and keep in a suitable and safe archive the documents and deeds upon
which are based the rights of the Church or the institution to its goods; deposit authentic
copies of them in the archive of the curia when it can be done conveniently.
§3 3 It is strongly recommended that administrators prepare annual budgets of receipts and
expenditures; however, it is left to particular law to issue regulations concerning such budgets
and to determine more precisely how they are to be presented.
Canon 1285 3 Within the limits of ordinary administration only, it is permissible for
administrators to make donations for purposes of piety or Christian charity from movable goods
which do not pertain to the stable patrimony.
Canon 1286 3 Administrators of goods:
1° 3 are to observe meticulously the civil laws pertaining to labor and social policy according to
Church principles in the employment of workers;
2° 3 are to pay employees a just and decent wage so that they may provide appropriately for their
needs and those of their family.
Canon 1287
§1 3 Both clerical and lay administrators of any ecclesiastical goods whatsoever which have not
been legitimately exempted from the governing power of the diocesan bishop are bound by their
office to present the local ordinary with an annual report, which in turn he is to present to the
finance council for its consideration; any contrary custom is reprobated.
§2 3 Administrators are to render an account to the faithful concerning the goods offered by the
faithful to the Church, according to norms to be determined by particular law.
Canon 1288 3 Administrators are neither to initiate nor to contest a lawsuit on behalf of a public
juridic person in civil court unless they obtain the written permission of their own ordinary.
Definition: A juridic person is an artificial person constituted by competent ecclesiastical
authority for an apostolic purpose, with a capacity for continuous existence and with canonical
rights and duties like those of a natural person. Like a civil-law corporation, it is a legal construct
which can and must be conceived of apart from the natural persons who constitute it, administer
it, or for whose benefit it exists. Of its nature, a juridic person is perpetual and, once established,
it can outlast all natural persons or material goods which formed it.
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