Canon 270

1. The members of the presbyteral council are to be designated

for a term determined in the statutes so that the whole council

or some part of it is renewed within a five-year period. 2.

When the eparchial see is vacant the presbyteral council ceases

and its functions are fulfilled by the college of eparchial consultors; within a year from taking canonical possession of the

eparchy, the eparchial bishop must establish a new presbyteral

council. 3. If the presbyteral council is no longer fulfilling

the function committed to it for the good of the eparchy or is

gravely abusing it, the eparchial bishop can dissolve it after

consulting with the metropolitan or, if it is a question of the

metropolitan see itself, after consulting the eparchial bishop

senior in episcopal ordination, who is subject to the same metropolitan, but he must establish a new presbyteral council within

a year.