Appointment, Qualifications, Compensation, Potvers and Duties.
Section 189
SEC. 189. Appointment, Qualifications, Compensation, Potvers and Duties.— (1) There shall be a city civil registrar who shall be appointed by the city mayor subject to civil service law, rules and regulations. (2) No person shall be appointed city civil registrar unless he is a citizen of the Philippines, of good moral character, a holder of a college degree and a first grade, civil service eligible or its equivalent. (3) The city civil registrar shall receive such compensation, emoluments and allowances as may be determined by law or ordinance. (4) The city civil registrar .shall be responsible for the-civil registration program in the city. Pursuant to the civil registry law, the Civil Code, and other pertinent laws and rules and regulations issued to implement them, he shall: (a) Accept all registrable documents including judicial decrees affecting the civil status of persons; (b) File, keep and preserve in a secure place the books required by law and transcribe and enter immediately upon receipt all registrable documents and judicial decrees, affecting the civil status of persons in the appropriate civil registry book; (c) Transmit to the Office of the Civil Registrar General, within the prescribed period, duplicate copies of registered documents required by law; (d) Issue certified transcripts or copies of any certificate-or registered document upon payment of the prescribed" fees to the city treasurer; (e) Receive applications for issuance of marriage license and, after determining that the requirements including supporting certificates and publication thereof for the prescribed period have been complied with, issue the license upon payment of the authorized fee to the city treasurer; (f) Collaborate with census officers of the National Census and Statistics Office in conducting educational campaign for vital registration and assist in the preparation of demographic and other statistics for the city; and (g) Exercise such other powers and perform such other duties and functions as may be prescribed by law or ordinance.