APPLICATION FOR FREE PATENT (AGRICULTURAL)

Name of Agency
DENR Community Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) to Provincial
Environment and Natural Resources (PENRO)

Frontline Services
Application for Free Patent (Agricultural)

Schedule of Availability of Service:

Monday to Friday

8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. without noon break

Fees/Charges
Application Fee: P50.00

Documentary Stamp: P15.00 per document

Cadastral Cost (depending on the size of the area and number of corners, etc.)

Who May Avail the Service:

External Customer

How to Avail the Service

Customer Office/Person Documentary Amount of
No. Activity DENR Action Responsible/Location Duration Requirements Fees
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E) (F) (G)

1. Letter Request

2. Any document
showing identity of
land (e.g. lot
number, survey
card, tax
30 minutes declaration, Deed of
(manual) Sale, etc.)
Verify status of Note: 5
Inquire status of land whether minutes, using 3. Certified True
the lot being titled or not LAMS Copy of Approved
applied for free and/or claimed Administrative Aide Application Survey Plan,
1 patent by others VI/OIC, Records Unit Technical
 Customer Office/Person Documentary Amount of
No. Activity DENR Action Responsible/Location Duration Requirements Fees
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E) (F) (G)

Description or
Cadastral Map

4. Tax declaration,
Proof of payment of
taxes

5. Certfication from
the Barangay that
he/she is a resident
in the area.
Determine Land
Classification
Status (whether
A and D, or not) Engineer II 1 Hour
Sign and
approve
Certification of
Status of Land CENR Officer 10 minutes
Provide to the
applicant/s the
following:
1. Checklist of
Requirements

2. Free Patent
Application
Form and other
prescribed
forms

3. Advice on the
procedures
LMO/LMI 10 minutes

Receive 1 hour Duly accomplished

2 File application application, Administrative Aide Free Patent
with complete record, index VI/OIC, Records Unit Application and
supporting and assign prescribed forms,
documents control number with the following
attached
documents:

1. Proof of
Claims/Ownership of
the Land

2. Certified True
 Customer Office/Person Documentary Amount of
No. Activity DENR Action Responsible/Location Duration Requirements Fees
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E) (F) (G)

Copy of Approved
Survey Plan or
Cadastral Map

3.Copy of technical
description

4. Affidavit of two (2)

disinterested
persons residing in
the barangay of the
city or municipality
where the land is
located attesting that
the applicant thereof
has either by himself
or through his
predecessors-in
interest, actually
resided on and
continuously
possessed and
occupied under a
bonafide claim of
acquisition of
ownership, the
subject land for at
least ten (10) years

5.Certification from
the Regional Trial
Court concerned
that there is no
pending land
registration case
involving the parcel
being applied for

6. Certification from
LGU that the area
applied for is zoned
as Residential

7. Certification from
CENRO that the
land is A and D

8. Affidavit stating
that the land is the
 Customer Office/Person Documentary Amount of
No. Activity DENR Action Responsible/Location Duration Requirements Fees
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E) (F) (G)

only land applied for

by the applicant.

9. Government
issued ID of
applicant and
representative
(Postal, Voter’s,
GSIS, LTO,
PhilHealth, Senior
Citizen’s, SSS, etc.)

10. Latest
photograph of land
and house
(preferably geo-
tagged)

11. Latest
photograph of the
applicant and
representative
Compute Fees
and prepare
Order of
Payment LMO/LMI 5 minutes
• Application
Fee (P50.00)
• Documentary
Stamp
(P15.00 per
document)
•Cadastral Cost
Pay (depending on
corresponding Receive the size of the
fee and payment and area and
documentary issue Official number of
3 stamp Receipt Credit Officer 10 minutes corners, etc.)
Conduct
investigation on
the land being
applied for and
submit
investigation
report with geo-
tagged photos LMO/LMI 1 day
Prepare Notices
and letter to the LMO/LMI 30 minutes
 Customer Office/Person Documentary Amount of
No. Activity DENR Action Responsible/Location Duration Requirements Fees
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E) (F) (G)

barangay,
municipality or
city, applicant
Sign notices
and letters CENR Officer 5 minutes
15 Days
(as required by
Commonwealth
Act 141: Public
Post Notices LMO/LMI Land Act)
Submit Proof of
Posting from the Prepare and
Barangay, process patent:
Applicant, • Prepare B.L.
4 CENRO Form 700-2A LMO/LMI 30 minutes
• Prepare Order
of Approval and
Issuance of
Patent UWI, Tree Marker 30 minutes
• Type Judicial
Forms and
Technical
Descriptions
and Prepare
Indorsement to 1 hour and 30
PENRO UWI, Tree Marker minutes
• Verify and
certify the
correctness of
the Technical
Description Engineer, UWI 30 minutes
• Review FPA
(Preliminary) LMO 30 minutes
• Review and
Initial Patent
and Sign
Indorsement to
PENRO CENR Officer 30 minutes
2 Days
• Transmit (depends on
carpeta to Administrative Aide the location of
PENRO VI/OIC, Records Unit PENRO)
*In Case no CENRO in the area

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