Office of the Municipal Civil Registrar

Functional Statement

Develop plans and strategies and upon approval thereof by the Mayor, 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 Code;
Accept all registrable and judicial decrees affecting the civil status of persons;
File, keep and preserve in a secure place the books required by law;
Transcribe and enter immediately upon receipt full remittable documents and judicial decrees affecting the civil status of persons in the appropriate civil registry books;
Transmit to the Office of the Civil Registrar-General, within the prescribed period, duplicate copies of registered documents required by law;
Issue certified transcripts or copies of any certificate or registered documents upon payment of the prescribed fees to the Treasurer;
Receive applications for the issuance of a marriage license and, after determining that the requirements and supporting certificate and publications thereof for the prescribed period have been complied with, issue the license upon payment of the authorized fee to the Treasurer;
Coordinate with the National Statistics Office in conducting educational campaigns for vital registration and assist in the preparation of demographic and other statistics for the local government unit.

Frontline Services

Registration of birth and issuance of Certificate of Live Birth (COLB);
Registration of foundlings;
Registration and issuance of Death Certificate;
Issuance of Marriage License;
Registration of Marriage Certificate;
Issuance of Certified Photocopy/True Transcription of births, death and marriages
Process petitions under RA 9048/RA 10172 (Correction of Clerical Error or Change Name, Petition for Change in Gender/Sex and Date of Birth (Month & Day);
Registration of legal instruments;
Issuance of Endorsements of Births, Deaths and Marriages;
Process security paper of births, deaths, marriages and CENOMAR through Batch Request System (BREQS);
Registration of court orders.