DEPARTMENT OF AGRARIAN REFORM – REGION I

D PROVINCIAL OFFICE AND DAR REGIONAL OFFICE

CITIZEN’S CHARTER

STEPS AND PROCEDURES IN THE AVAILMENT OF FRONTLINE SERVICE

FRONT LINE SERVICE: Exemption Under DOJ 44

Schedule of Availability of Service: Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (NO NOON

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Who May Avail of the Service:

1. Any party to the case;
2. Any counsel of record; or
3. Any person authorized by a party/counsel to the case (proper authorization to be
submitted).

Requirements. THE APPLICANT IS GIVEN THE OPTION TO SUBMIT ONLY ONE (1)
ORIGINAL COPY AND ONE (1) SOFT COPY IN CD.

1. Certified copy of the Official Receipt (OR) of filling fee;

2. Certified copy of OR for Inspection Fee;
3. Sworn Application for CARP Exemption or Exclusion, duly accomplished and
subscribed and sworn to before a Notary Public or any person authorized to
administer oaths.
 Special Power of Attorney SPA) if the applicant is not the registered owner
nor one of the co-owners of the property;
 Notarized Secretary’s certificate of a corporate or Cooperative Board
Resolution authorizing the applicant’s representative to file the Sworn
Applicant ion for CARP Exemption, if the applicant is a corporation or
cooperative or some other juridical entity; and
 Latest notarized General Information Sheet (GIS) if the applicant is a
corporation or cooperative or some other juridical entity.
4. Certified True Copy (or the original copy) of the Original Certificate of Title
(OCT) or Transfer of Title (TCT) of the subject land, certified by the Register
of Deeds not earlier than 30 days prior to the application filling date.

In case of untitled lands:

 Certification from the DENR Community Environment and Natural
Resources Officer (CENRO) that the landholding has been classified as
alienable and disposable land;
 Certification from the DENR CENRO (for administrative confirmation of
imperfect title) that the titling process/proceeding has commenced and
there are no adverse claimants of the Clerk of Court (for judicial
confirmation of imperfect title) that there is a pending case filed in the
court;
 Certificate of Tax Declaration.
5. Certification from the Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB)
Regional Officer on the actual zoning or classification of the subject land in
the approved comprehensive land use plan, citing the municipal or city zoning
ordinance number, resolution number and date of its approval the HLURB or
its corresponding board resolution number;
6. Certification of the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) that the area is not
irrigated nor scheduled for rehabilitation nor irrigable with firm funding
commitment;
 7. Certification of the Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer (PARPO)
attesting compliance with the public notice requirement and its corresponding
report as to status of CARP coverage on subject land, presence of farmers,
agricultural lessees, share tenant farm workers, actual tillers, or occupants;
8. Photographs, size 5R (5 inches by 7 inches), using color film, and taken on
the landholding under sunlight. The applicant shall attach the pictures to a
paper background and the photographer who took said pictures shall sign on
said paper background to certify the authenticity of the pictures. On each
background paper shall be written a short description of each picture. The
pictures shall consist of:
 Four (4) photographs taken from the center of the landholding: one (1)
facing north, one (1) facing east, one (1) facing south and one (1) facing
west;
 Two (2) photographs each for all distinct man-made structures existing on
land, taken from opposite angles;
 Two (2) photographs each of the front view of the billboard(s) required in
Section 11; and
 Sufficient number of photographs of the most conspicuous landmarks from
the nearest Barangay Center and leading to and from the ingress and
engress routes of the subject landholding, for the purpose of assisting the
Ocular Inspection Team in locating the site;
9. Proof of receipt of payment of disturbance compensation or a valid agreement
to pay or waive payment of disturbance compensation;
10. Affidavit/Undertaking in a single document of the applicant stating:
 The number and names of farmers, agricultural lessees, share tenants,
farmworkers, actual tillers and/or occupants in the landholding; if there are
no person, a statement attesting to such fact;
 That the applicant has erected the required number of billboards and
undertakes not to remove, deface or destroy said billboards, and that he
shall repair or replace the same with damaged, until after the approving
authority disposes of the application with finality;
 That he has not committed any act of forum shopping as defined in the
rules governing Agrarian Law Implementation (ALI) cases; and
 That when there is a dispute on the fixing of disturbance compensation
pending before the Provincial Agrarian Reform Adjudicator (PARAD) or
Regional Agrarian Reform Adjudicator (RARAD) or DAR Adjudication
Board (DARAB), the applicant shall abide with the decision of the
Adjudicating Authority on the fixing of disturbance compensation.
11. Lot Plan; and
12. Vicinity or directional Map.

Duration: Within 83 days

Fee: Inspection Cost P 10,000.00

HOW TO AVAIL OF THE SERVICE:

Steps Applicant/Client Service Provider Duration Person In- Form
Charge
Secure the Issue the 20 minutes DARPO/RCLU
1 Application Application Form PPI
Form. and list of Secretariat
documentary
requirements.
Accomplish the RCLUPPI
2 Form and Secretariat
 submit to the
RCLUPPI
Secretariat.
Submit the Evaluate/check the 1 hr RCLUPPI
3 application completeness of Secretariat
form with the the submitted
complete documents.
requirements in
5 copies or one
(1) original and
one (1) copy in
CD..
4 Builds the case in 1 hr. RCLUPPI
LCMS and assign Secretariat
bar code number.
5 Pay Inspection Receive payment 10 minutes Regional
Cost and issue Official Cashier
Receipt.
Send Notice to 5 days from RCLUPPI
6 conduct Ocular receipt of Secretariat
Inspection to application.
PARPO II and
Applicant/s and
input case action
in LCMS.
Conduct OCI and Within 15 RCLUPPI
7 input case action days from Ocular
in LCMS. issuance of Inspection
notice Team
Prepare Within 5 RCLUPPI
8 Investigation days from Ocular
Report and input OCI Inspection
case action in Team
LCMS.
10 Schedule date of 1 day from RCLUPPI
deliberation and conduct of Secretariat
input case action OCI
in LCMS.
11 Deliberate the Within 5 RCLUPPI
merits of the days from Committee
application and submission
input case action of
in LCMS. Investigation
Report
12 Prepare and Within 10 RCLUPPI
forward Draft days from Head
Order to RCLUPPI RCLUPPI Secretariat
Chairperson and deliberation
input case action
in LCMS.
13 Review Draft Within 10 RCLUPPI
Order and input days Chairperson
case action in
LCMS.
14 Forward Draft Within 30 Regional
Order for days from Director
 approval/denial receipt of
and input case Draft Order
action in LCMS.
15 Assign ORD 15 minutes Clerk ORD
control number
and Dry Seal it
16 Package 1 day RCLUPPI
documents and Head
publish Order in Secretariat
LCMS.
17 Send copies to 30 minutes Records
concerned parties Officer
thru’ Registered
Mail.

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