Handbook
A complete set of Parish Council Regulations are available at
http://www.goarch.org/en/archdiocese/documents/upr1996.asp#Anchor10

The Parish Council under the leadership of the Priest shall have the following duties: to attend divine services regularly and to participate in the sacramental life of the Church thereby setting an example for the Parish, to administer the affairs of the Parish in such manner as to aid the Priest in the fulfillment of its aims and purposes, establish a stewardship program, appoint a stewardship committee to implement and expand the stewardship program of the Parish, to collect the revenue of the Church, issuing receipts thereof and paying by check the salaries of the Parish personnel, Parish expenses, budgetary grants-in-aid for the Parish educational and philanthropic organizations and such sums as may be fixed by the Clergy-Laity Congresses for the support of the Archdiocese, to buy, sell or mortgage Parish property, as herein before provided, to submit to the Bishop at the end of each year a report of its stewardship and to submit annually to the Archdiocese and to the Diocese the Parish budget for the ensuing year and the audited financial statement for the prior year.

PARISH COUNCIL

Section 1:
The Parish Council shall consist of the Priest, and a number of elected lay members fixed by the Parish by-laws or by local statute according to the needs of the Parish and is responsible to the Parish Assembly and to the Diocesan Bishop for conducting all Parish affairs in keeping with the aims and purposes as herein before set forth. The Parish Council shall be deemed to mean also Board of Trustees or Board of Directors when such designations are required by local statute. The Priest shall not have a vote.

Section 2:
The officers of the Parish Council shall be a President, a Vice President, a Secretary, a Treasurer, and such other officers as the Parish by-laws require.

Section 3:
The members of the Parish Council are elected for a term not to exceed three years by the members of the Parish who have met their stewardship financial obligations to the Parish.

Section 4:
The Parish Council may be appointed by the Bishop upon the request of a two-thirds majority of the Parish Assembly.

Section 5:
No salaried employee of the Parish may serve on the Parish Council, the Board of Auditors, or the Board of Elections.

Section 6:
A vacancy on the Parish Council shall be considered to exist under any of the following circumstances: the death or resignation of a member, the physical or mental incapacity of a member, the invalidation of the election of a member, the failure of a member to be current in his stewardship financial obligations to the Parish, the determination by a spiritual Court of the Diocese that a member is not or has ceased to be loyal to the doctrines, canons, worship, discipline, constitution? administrative rulings. customs, practices, these Regulations and encyclicals of the Archdiocese, or that he or she does not recognize its duly constituted ecclesiastical authority, or the determination by a Spiritual Court of the Diocese that a Parish Council member is guilty of a serious moral transgression or has violated his or her oath of office.

Section 7:
When a member of the Parish Council has been absent without justifiable cause for more than three of its meetings consecutively, he or she may be relieved of his or her duties upon the resolution of the Parish Council to that effect.

Section 8:
A vacancy on the Parish Council, after the Parish Council Officers have been sworn in, shall be filled by the Parish Council by electing a successor therefor from amongst the members of the Parish in good standing for the unexpired portion of the term of such vacancy.