NewsWhore
01-09-2009, 03:10 PM
Central Electoral Board (JCE) Administrative Chamber president Roberto Rosario suggests that the JCE recommend that the Executive Branch submit a bill to Congress aimed at modifying Civil Registry Law 659 to enable local civil registry officials to correct errors in official civil registry birth, death, marriage or divorce documents themselves. Currently, to make the corrections a court order is required at a cost of over RD$20,000. A large number of errors were made during the digitalization of the handwritten civil registry records, and now citizens are being asked to pay the cost of amending them. The errors include misspelled first and last names and the wrong sex and dates. Even in cases when the citizens can present other legal documents that show the corrected spelling or data, these are not accepted, and the law requires them to hire a lawyer and go through a time-consuming court case.
He also suggested that name changes could be made directly at the local election boards or in the Disputes Chamber during election years, without having to go to the presidency of the board.
In addition to this change, Rosario's proposal would allow civil registry officials to transcribe adoption orders into the book intended for these records.
Civil registry officials would also be able to transcribe divorce decisions when the divorce is by mutual consent, and requested previously by either of the parties after submitting certain documents.
The proposal for modification also enables the JCE to provisionally suspend the issue of civil registry documents with irregularities or errors, and allows the Disputes Chamber to issue a notification annulling the document.
The proposal also establishes that a child born to a foreign mother can be registered in an original book that will remain in the civil registry office until the presentation of the pink sheet issued by the hospital where the child was born.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#4)
He also suggested that name changes could be made directly at the local election boards or in the Disputes Chamber during election years, without having to go to the presidency of the board.
In addition to this change, Rosario's proposal would allow civil registry officials to transcribe adoption orders into the book intended for these records.
Civil registry officials would also be able to transcribe divorce decisions when the divorce is by mutual consent, and requested previously by either of the parties after submitting certain documents.
The proposal for modification also enables the JCE to provisionally suspend the issue of civil registry documents with irregularities or errors, and allows the Disputes Chamber to issue a notification annulling the document.
The proposal also establishes that a child born to a foreign mother can be registered in an original book that will remain in the civil registry office until the presentation of the pink sheet issued by the hospital where the child was born.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#4)