The Diocesan Canons, the Diocesan Policy Manual and the Internal Revenue Service set forth certain requirements concerning congregational management of which all leaders, clerical and lay, should remain aware.

 Diocesan Canon 23, Duties of Vestries, Section 6 contains two restrictions. First, it requires Vestries to obtain prior written consent from Bishop White before alienating any real property of the Parish. Second, it requires Vestries to obtain prior written approval of Bishop White and either the Chancellor or Vice Chancellor before the Vestry amends the parish corporation's Articles of Incorporation or presents any amendment to the Articles to the Kentucky Secretary of State. St. Mark's Church has recently complied with this Canon.

 Section V.D.1 of the Diocese's Policy Manual provides that each Parish needs to establish bylaws for internal governance and that Vestries must submit any proposed amendments to their bylaws for discussion with the Canon to the Ordinary, Amy Real Coultas, and review by either the Chancellor or Vice Chancellor before adoption. Upon approval, copies of the revised bylaws must be filed with Amy. St. Mark's Church and St. Matthew's Church recently either have or are in the process of complying with this requirement. Section V.D.2 of the Manual contains a similar requirement for Mission Congregations.

 In 2013 the federal Internal Revenue Service issued a new regulation which requires every entity which has either an Employer Identification Number (EIN) or a Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) to update the name of its "responsible party" when there is a change in the person previously on record with the IRS, by filing a completed Form 8822-B with the IRS. For parishes and mission congregations which have EINs, the "responsible party" would normally be the Treasurer or Rector, Priest-in-Charge, etc. As background, the Diocese requires each Parish and each Mission which has one or more employees, and their subject local supporting organizations if any, to obtain an EIN in its own name even though each Parish and Mission is automatically exempt from the requirement to obtain independent Section 501(c)(3) classification with the IRS because of the Group Charitable Exemption which the Episcopal Church obtained many years ago for all its dioceses, parishes, missions, etc. which are in communion with the Church. Each application for an EIN, IRS Form SS-4, contains the name of the "responsible party" when it is filed with the IRS. Depending upon local practice in the congregations, the originally named person would likely have been the current Rector or the current Treasurer of the congregation. As all such persons know, the IRS may pursue all responsible parties personally in the event required payroll taxes on their employees are not withheld and remitted quarterly to the IRS, and to the state. This is an additional requirement for those who are actually handling employee payrolls.