Canon 420

1. Major superiors who are designated as visitators by the

typicon of monasteries or statutes of orders and congregations,

shall make a visitation at the times determined in them of all

houses subject to them in person or through another if they are

legitimately impeded. 2. The members shall trust the visitator, and they are obliged to respond according to the truth in

charity to lawful questioning; and indeed, no one has the right

to divert the members from this obligation by any means or to

hinder the object of the visitation in any manner. 3. The

local hierarch must visit all religious houses, if the major

superior who has the right of visitation has not made a visitation after five years, and after being warned by the local hierarch, still has neglected to visit them.