Published on: March 01, 2022
By Marcelo Pedalino
MAASIN CITY (PIA) -- Even as the COVID-19 pandemic was raging, the Local Civil Registrar’s Office in this city has managed to collect more than a million pesos in revenues in 2021, Jenny Ang, the city civil registrar, reported.
“We have an income of P1.1 million out of the fees collected at the Local Civil Registrar (LCR),”
Ang shared at a recent PIA Kapihan interview, referring to payments of registration for processing of important documents like a person’s birth, death, or papers for marriage.
Simple corrections involving clerical errors made through the LCR, as provided by law, cost only P1,000, while change of first name is P3,000 and this is much lower than before where one has to go through legal processes in Courts that cost tens of thousands of pesos, said Ang.
She said RA 9048 empowered the LCR to correct clerical errors, and RA 10172 also authorized the office to effect changes on erroneous sex and year of birth.
To mark the month of February as Civil Registration Month, the 32nd for this year, the city’s LCR offered free delayed registration in two remote barangays on separate dates, in Brgy. Lonoy (Feb. 18), and Brgy. San Agustin (Feb. 24), in effect bringing their services to these two catchment areas.
It was not immediately known how many clients were served in these two outings as of this writing. The same free service was also extended on February 14 at the LCR office in the city hall where some 30 clients were served, another date on February 21, and on February 28, the last day of the month, Ang further reported.
(LDL/MMP/PIA8-Southern Leyte)
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