The superiors may delegate their responsibility and authority regarding the necessities of the community.

18. And although the aforesaid rule contains that regarding the clothing of the friars and the necessities of the infirm the ministers as much as the custodes should exercise solicitous care, and that saying binding the ministers and custodes tightly in this duty to the extent that it seems at first glance to exclude others from it, because however it is fitting that We consider solicitously both the time [during which] the rule [was] instituted, when the friars themselves were few in number in comparison to the present, and perhaps the ministers and custodes seemed then to suffice to be able to procure these [things], and nonetheless the extent of the multiplication of the friars and the quality of modern times, nor does it have the semblance of truth that blessed Francis the institutor of the rule either to have wanted to fix beforehand a yoke of impossibility upon the ministers and custodes or to want the friars themselves from the consequences of this same impossibility to lack their necessities, We do concede that the ministers and custodes themselves can exercise this manner of solicitous care by [means of] another. Also other friars should even diligently exercise care of this kind which is incumbent upon the aforementioned ministers and custodes from the rule, when this has been committed to them by these same [ones].