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ARTICLE 2: THE CHANCELLOR, OTHER NOTARIES AND THE ARCHIVES §2 If it is considered necessary, the chancellor may be given an assistant, who is to be called the vice-chancellor. §3 The chancellor and vice-chancellor are automatically notaries and secretaries of the curia. §2 The chancellor and notaries must be of unblemished reputation and above suspicion. In cases which could involve the reputation of a priest, the notary must be a priest. Can. 484 The office of notary involves: 1° writing acts and documents concerning decrees, arrangements, obligations, and other matters which require their intervention; 2° faithfully recording in writing what is done, and signing the document, with a note of the place, the day, the month and the year; 3° while observing all that must be observed, showing acts or documents from the archives to those who lawfully request them, and verifying that copies conform to the original. Can. 486 §1 All documents concerning the diocese or parishes must be kept with the greatest of care. §2 In each curia there is to be established in a safe place a diocesan archive where documents and writings concerning both the spiritual and the temporal affairs of the diocese are to be properly filed and carefully kept under lock and key. §3 An inventory or catalogue is to be made of documents kept in the archive, with a short synopsis of each document. §2 Each year documents of criminal cases concerning moral matters are to be destroyed whenever the guilty parties have died, or ten years have elapsed since a condemnatory sentence concluded the affair. A short summary of the facts is to be kept, together with the text of the definitive judgement. Can. 490 §1 Only the Bishop is to have the key of the secret archive. §2 When the see is vacant, the secret archive or safe is not to be opened except in a case of real necessity, and then by the diocesan Administrator personally. §3 Documents are not to be removed from the secret archive or safe. §2 The diocesan Bishop is to ensure that there is an historical archive in the diocese, and that documents which have an historical value are carefully kept in it and systematically filed. §3 In order that the acts and documents mentioned in §§1 and 2 may be inspected or removed, the norms laid down by the diocesan Bishop are to be observed.
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