Canon 1339

Can. 1339 §1. An ordinary, personally or through another, can warn one who is in the proximate occasion of committing a delict, or one upon whom, from an investigation having been carried out, falls grave suspicion of a delict having been committed.

Can. 1339 §2. An ordinary can rebuke one whose behavior causes scandal or a grave disturbance of order, in a manner accommodated to the particular conditions of the person and the facts.

Can. 1339 §3. The warning or rebuke must always be established at least by some document that is to be kept in the secret archive of the curia.

Can. 1339 §4. If once or several times warnings or rebukes have been given to one without effect, or if an effect cannot be expected from them, the ordinary is to give a penal precept in which he clearly prescribes what is to be done or avoided.

Can. 1339 §5. If the gravity of the case warrants it, and especially if one is in danger of relapsing into a delict, the ordinary is to submit the person to vigilance in a manner determined by a singular decree, even beyond the penalties imposed or declared by a sentence or decree according to the norm of law.