Canon 1048

1. Autonomous pious foundations can be constituted only by an

eparchial bishop or another higher authority. 2. In order for

a non-autonomous foundation to be validly accepted by a juridic

person, the written consent of the local hierarch is necessary;

he is not to give his consent until he has lawfully established

that the juridic person can fulfill the new obligation as well as

those already accepted; the same hierarch is to take special care

that the income entirely corresponds to the attached obligations

in accordance with the customs of his own Church sui iuris. 3.

Further conditions, without which pious foundations cannot be

constituted or accepted, are to be defined in particular law.