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ASSIGNMENT OF TITLE

1. Signed Original Title NUMBER 1. Signed Original Title with
2. Registered Residential Actor
12 Free Patent Clerk Title Number
3. Official record book of 2. Updated official record
book of Title Number
Title Numbers Activity
Assigns a Title Number

SCANNING OF JUDICIAL
FORM

Actor
Clerk

Activity
13 Signed Original Title with Title Scans RFP and send a copy Central Office’s copy of RFP
Number
to the Central Office
(The Central Office reportedly
uses the Technical
Description in the Residential
Free Patent to plot the parcel
and add it to its national
database)

RELEASE OF JUDICIAL
FORM

Actor 1. Released Judicial Forms
Logbook with entry
14 Signed Judicial Form by RoD Clerk 2. Registered free patent
with Title Number
Activity (received by the owner)

Release of signed Judicial
Form to the applicant
Note: Local Government partners of DENR may also organize Title Distribution events, which is preceded but a Title Holders’ Forum.
• The LGU gets the list of registered free patents from ROD
• LGU contacts and informs the title holders, sets date for title distribution
• LGU conducts Title Holders’ Forum (an orientation on how to physically and legally care for the title, responsibilities for compliance with land use/
zoning, payment of real property taxes, what they need to know when they use their title as collateral, etc.
At least one LGU pays for the Registration and ICT Fees. The lot owner gives the LGU a Special Power of Attorney to get his registered Free Patent from ROD.
He then pays the LGU, in installments, for the ICT and Registration fee, and all pending taxes owed for his land.

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