Victorias City Civil Registrar's Office Celebrates Civil Registration Month

In line with the Civil Registration Month Celebration in February, the Civil Registrar’s Office of Victorias City conducted different activities such as an annual mobile registration to several remote barangays and free issuance of civil registry documents.

A total of 598 applicants for delayed registration of civil registry documents such as birth, marriage and death, were from Hda. Gaston, Brgy. VIII (238 applicants) on Feb. 12 ; Hda. Ideal, Brgy. XIII (72 applicants) on Feb. 19 ; and Hda. Nena, Brgy. XIV (288 applicants) on Feb. 26.

To mark the month-long celebration was the free issuance of civil registry documents that benefited 150 applicants last Feb. 27.

This activity started after the approval of City Ordinance No. 1 series of 2006, authorizing the city civil registry to issue certified copy / transcript of civil registry documents free of charge every 27th day of February and after the memorandum issued by Mayor Severo Palanca, granting the request for the Office to render overtime service.

“This is one of the activities re- commended by the National Statistics Office to be undertaken by local civil registrars”, City Civil Registrar Julie Ann Roa said.

It was held every Feb. 27 because during the same day, way back in 1931, when R.A. 3753 or the Civil Registration Law was approved.

They also conducted several information dissemination drives on the important rules in civil registration.

The Civil Registrar’s Office of Victorias City implemented the use of the revised Municipal Form January 2007 which was effective on April 1, after conducting an orientation on the proper filling up of documents to midwives of the City Health Office.
-by Jemaimah Taladico

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