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EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 649 -
REORGANIZING THE LAND REGISTRATION COMMISSION INTO THE NATIONAL LAND
TEXTILES AND DEEDS REGISTRATION ADMINISTRATION AND REGIONALIZING THE
OFFICES OF THE REGISTRARS THEREIN
WHEREAS, there is a need to improve
the services and better systematize the operation of the Land
Registration Commission in the Ministry of Justice;
WHEREAS, to this end it becomes necessary to reorganize and restructure
the Land Registration Commission, including its provincial and city
registries, and to regionalize said registries;
WHEREAS, under Presidential Decree No. 1416, as amended, the President
is empowered to undertake such organizational and related improvements
as may be appropriate in the light of changing circumstances and new
developments;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines,
by virtue of the powers in me vested by Presidential Decree No. 1416,
as amended, do hereby order and ordain the following:
Section 1.
(1)
(2)
(3)
There are hereby created in the Administration the Offices of the Administrator and the Deputy Administrator.
The Administrator shall have the following powers and functions:
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
The Deputy Administrator shall
act as Administrator during the absence or disability of the
Administrator and when there is a vacancy in the position until another
person shall have been designated or appointed in accordance with law.
The Deputy Administrator shall also perform such other functions as the
Administrator may assign to him.
Sec. 2.
(a)
(1)
(2)
(3)
(b)
(1)
(2)
(3)
(d)
(1)
(2)
There shall be a Security Division under the Office of the Administrator which shall be headed by a Chief Security Officer.
Sec. 3.
Region
I, consisting of the provinces of Abra, Benguet, Ilocos Norte, Ilocos
Sur, La Union, Mountain Province, and Pangasinan, and the cities of
Baguio, Dagupan, Laoag and San Carlos, with center at San Fernando, La
Union;
Region II, consisting of the
provinces of Batanes, Cagayan, Ifugao, Isabela, Kalinga-Apayao, Nueva
Vizcaya and Quirino, with center at Tuguegarao, Cagayan:
Region III, consisting of the
provinces of Bataan, Bulacan (except the municipality of Valenzuela),
Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, Tarlac, and Zambales, and the cities of Angeles,
Cabanatuan, Olongapo, Palayan and San Jose, with center at San
Fernando, Pampanga;
The National Capital Region,
consisting of the cities of Manila, Quezon, Pasay and Caloocan, and the
municipalities of Navotas, Malabon, San Juan, Mandaluyong, Makati,
Pasig, Pateros, Taguig, Marikina, Parañaque, Las Piñas,
Muntinlupa and Valenzuela;
Region IV, consisting of the
provinces of Batangas, Cavite, Laguna, Marinduque, Mindoro Occidental,
Mindoro Oriental, Palawan, Quezon, Rizal (except the cities and
municipalities embraced within the National Capital Region), Romblon,
and Aurora, and the Cities of Batangas, Cavite, Lipa, Lucena, Puerto
Princesa, San Pablo, Tagaytay and Trece Martires, with center at
Rizal;
Region V, consisting of the
provinces of Albay, Camarines Sur, Camarines Norte, Catanduanes,
Masbate, and Sorsogon, and the cities of Legaspi, Naga and Iriga, with
center at Legaspi City;
Region VI, consisting of the
provinces of Aklan, Antique, Capiz, Iloilo, and Negros Occidental, and
the cities of Bacolod, Bago, Cadiz, Iloilo, La Carlota, Roxas, San
Carlos and Silay, and the subprovince of Guimaras, with center at
Iloilo City;
Region VII, consisting of the
provinces of Bohol, Cebu, Negros Oriental, and Siquijor, and the cities
of Bais, Canlaon, Cebu, Danao, Dumaguete, Lapu-Lapu, Mandaue,
Tagbilaran and Toledo, with center at Cebu City;
Region VIII, consisting of the
provinces of Eastern Samar, Leyte, Northern Samar, Southern Leyte, and
Western Samar, the subprovince of Biliran, and the cities of Calbayog,
Ormoc and Tacloban, with center at Tacloban City;
Region IX, consisting of the
provinces of Basilan, Sulu, Tawi-Tawi, Zamboanga del Norte, and
Zamboanga del Sur, and the cities of Dapitan, Dipolog, Pagadian and
Zamboanga, with center at Zamboanga City;
Region X, consisting of the
provinces of Agusan del Norte, Agusan del Sur, Bukidnon, Camiguin,
Misamis Occidental, Misamis Oriental, and Surigao del Norte, and the
cities of Butuan, Cagayan de Oro, Gingoog, Ozamis, Oroquieta, Surigao
and Tangub, with center at Cagayan de Oro City;
Region XI, consisting of the
provinces of Davao del Norte, Davao Oriental, Davao del Sur, South
Cotabato, and Surigao del Sur, and the cities of Davao and General
Santos with center at Davao City; and
Region XII, consisting of the
provinces of Lanao del Norte, Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao, North
Cotabato, and Sultan Kudarat, and the cities of Cotabato, Iligan and
Marawi, with center at Cotabato City.
There shall be as many registrars of land titles and deeds as there are provinces and cities in the region. Each registrar shall be assisted by at least one deputy registrar. An additional position for deputy registrar may be created in any registry whenever the yearly average workload for the last three years in the particular registry shall warrant such creation, as recommended by the Administrator and approved by the Ministry of Justice.
Every registrar of land titles and deeds shall be appointed to a particular province or city within the region and may be assigned to any other province or city within the region by the Minister of Justice upon recommendation of the Administrator when the public interest so requires.
Sec. 4.
The Administrator shall have the same qualifications, rank and salary
as those of an Associate Justice of a collegiate appellate court.
The Deputy Administrator shall have the same qualifications as those
required of the Administrator; and shall have the same rank and salary
as those of a judge of the Court of First Instance.
The Regional Registrars of Land Titles and Deeds and the Assistant
Regional Registrars of Land Titles and Deeds shall be members of the
Bar and shall, at the time of their appointments, have engaged in the
practice of law for at least five (5) years, or for the same period,
shall have held a position in the government requiring as a requisite
therefor membership in the Bar.
The Managers for Administration and Personnel Management and for Legal
Affairs and the Provincial/City Registrars of Land Titles and Deeds and
their Deputies, shall be members of the Bar. The Manager for
Registration shall be a Geodetic Engineer. All other positions in the
Administration shall continue to be covered by the qualification
standards/guidelines fixed for the respective positions by the Civil
Service Commission.
The officers and personnel mentioned in the immediately preceding
paragraph shall receive the same salaries attaching to comparable
positions in other offices/agencies/commissions/boards under the
Ministry of Justice.
Sec. 5.
Every Regional Registrar shall be assisted by a supportive staff as
shall be provided for in the staffing pattern to be submitted by the
Administrator.
Sec. 6.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
(g)
travel within the region for
periods not exceeding thirty days.
Sec. 7.
The province or city shall furnish a suitable space or building for the
Office of the Registrar of Land Titles and Deeds until such time as the
same could be furnished out of national funds.
Sec. 8.
All structural units in the Land Registration Commission and in the
registries of deeds, and all positions therein shall cease to exist
from the date specified in the implementing order to be issued by the
President pursuant to the preceding paragraph. Their pertinent
functions, applicable appropriations, records, equipment and property
shall be transferred to the appropriate staff or offices herein
created.
Sec. 9.
An incumbent who is appointed by the President or by the Minister of
Justice, as the case may be, to a similar or equivalent position
created in the Executive Order shall be allowed to received either the
salary rate authorized for the position or his present salary whichever
is higher.
Sec. 10.
Sec. 11.
The officers and employees referred to in the preceding paragraph shall
not lose their civil service eligibilities and their names shall be
entered in a preferential re-employment list so as to facilitate their
reappointment to appropriate positions created pursuant to this
Executive Order.
Sec. 12.
Sec. 13.
Sec. 14.
Sec. 15. Since 19.07.98.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 9th day of February, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
eighty-one.
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