Local Civil Registry Office

MUNICIPAL CIVIL REGISTRAR

Introduction

     The Municipal Civil Registrar shall be responsible for the civil registration program, pursuant to the civil registry law, the civil code, and other pertinent laws, rules and regulations.

     The civil registry law embraces all acts of civil life affecting the status of persons and is applicable to all persons residing in the Philippines.

     The civil registrar is in charge of the registration and recording of vital events such as birth, marriage, death, adoption, legitimation, annulment of marriage, legal separation, presumptive death and other registrable events as required by law.

     Registration data are necessary for government to make budgetary and other provisions for adequate services and facilities.

     By virtue of the enactment into law of R.A. 9048, the civil registrar also performs quasi-judicial functions by accepting petitions for correction of clerical error and change of first name, and decide the same based on the documentary evidences presented.

Organization and Management

The Office of the Municipal Civil Registrar has the following plantilla positions, to wit:

• Municipal Civil Registrar
• Registration Officer II
• Registration Officer I
• Illustrator I
• Five (5) Casual Employees

Functions:
1. Develop plans and strategies and upon approval thereof by the governor or mayor, as the case maybe, implement the same, particularly those which have to do with civil registry programs and projects which the mayor is empowered to implement and which the sanggunian is empowered to provide for under the Local Government Code;

2. Accept all registrable documents and judicial decrees affecting the civil status of persons;

3. File, keep and preserve in a secure place the registry books required by law;

4. Transcribe and enter immediately upon receipt of all registrable documents and judicial decrees affecting the civil status of persons in the appropriate civil registry books;

5. Transmit to the Office of the Civil Registrar-General, within the prescribed period, duplicate copies of registered documents required by law;

6. Issued certified transcripts or copies of any certificate or registered documents upon payment of prescribed fees to the treasurer;

7. Receive applications for the issuance of a marriage license and, after determining that the requirements and supporting certificates and publication thereof for the prescribed period have been complied with, issue the license upon payment of the authorized fee to the treasurer;

8. Coordinate with the National Statistics Office in conducting educational campaigns for vital registration and assists in the preparation of demographic and other statistics for the local government concerned;

9. Exercise such other duties and functions as may be prescribed by law or ordinance.

Late Registration (age in years)          1     2 - 4     5above
Late Registration                    PhP   100     200       300
Verification Fee                      PhP     30      30        30
                                         Total   130     230       330
                                         
Processing Period – 15Days                                         
                             

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