Canon 259

1. There is also to be a secret archive in the eparchial curia

or at least a secret safe in the archive of the eparchial curia,

completely closed and locked, which cannot be removed from the

place, and in which documents to be kept secret are preserved.

2. Each year, the procedural acts for inflicting penalties in

matters of morals are to be destroyed in which the guilty party

has died, or in which ten years have elapsed, retaining a brief

summary of the facts and the text of the definitive sentence or

decree.