21.6.

21.7.

Within twenty (20) days from receipt of the above folder, the MARC shall: check the status of CARP
coverage on the subject land, inspect the billboard; check presence of farmers‘ agricultural lessees.
share tenants. farm workers, actual tillers, or occupants; post notices of the application in a conspicuous
place in the municipality and a conspicuous ptaoe in the barangay covering the subject land (or a larger
ponion of the subject land for properties that overlap on more than one barangav); prepare a single
document MARO certification reporting the result of all the foregoing tasks, and make available to the
applicant the original copy of said MARO cenihcation.

If the MARC fails to act upon the request for issuance of the above certification within twenty (20) days
(tom receipt of the request, the applicant shall notify the FARO and RCLUPPUCLUPPI of such faihne by
personally (ding an affidavit reporting such inaction. Within hve (5) days from receipt of the affidavit of
inaction, the FARO shall compel the MARC to act upon the request If the MARC still refuses to act for no
justifiable reason. the PARO shall, within twemy (20) days from receipt of the attidavit of inaction,
perform by himself the duties abandoned by the MARC.

21.8.

21 9.

21.10,

21.11.

21.12.

21 13‘

21.14.

2| 15.

Meantime. the disciplining authority of the DAR shall, after proper investigation, impose upon said
MARO the appropriate administrative sanction(s)t

At this juncture. the applicant has four (4) application forms let? aher mmishing two (2) advance copies
for the MARC and PARO. The applicant shall place said application forms in the remaining four (4)
folders and all the applicable documentary requirements set forth in Section l0 hereof, all the
on'ginals being in one (1) folder, and the photocopies thereof being in the three (3) other folders
These four (4) folders shall be the initiatory pleading of the application for conversion

The applicant shall submit to the RCLUPPl/CLUPPI the four (4) folders. The RC1.UPPl/(‘LUPPI shall then
review the completeness of the folders If found complete, the app1icant shall pay the filing fees and
inspection cost (in accordance with Section 13 hereof) and post the necessary bond (in accordance with
Section 24 hereof), aRer which the RCLUPPl/CLUPPI may accept the application Acceptance date of the
folders shall be the “Filing Date” of the application.

The distribution of the four (4) fo1ders shall be as follows: The RCLUPPI/CLUPPI shall keep a folder
containing the on'ginals and a folder containing photocopies. At the same time, the
RCLUPPl/CLUPPI Secretariat shall transmit the remaining two (2) folders to the FARO and MARO
respectively. Immediate transmittal of said folders is important because the FARO shall utilize the
information therein when acting upon any protest against the application, or when issuing any commem
that he may wish to submit to the RCLUPPl/CLUPPI in connection with the application.

Within ten (10) days from Filing Date, the RCLUPPI/CLUPPI shall issue to the applicant a Notice of
Conduct of Ocular Inspection, indicating the date thereof The ocular inspection shah be held not earlier
than ten (10) days nor later than twenty (20) days from issuance date of the Notice of Conduct of Ocular
Inspection. The RCLUPPl/CLUPPI shall inform the MARC by the fastest means of communication of the
date of ocular inspection with instructions to ensure dissemination of the Notice to all farmers,
agricultural lessees, share tenants. fannworkers. actual tillers, or occupants in the subject landholding.

The applicant shall transmit said Notice to the MARC and indicate the ocular inspection date on the
billboard(s) at least five (5) days before conduct of ocular inspection On or before ocular inspection
date, the applicant shall submit to the RCLUPPI/CI.UPP1 a proof that the MARO was able to receive a
copy of said Notice

The RCLUPPI/CLUPPI shall then conduct ocular inspection, and if possible. hold a dialogue with the
farmers, agricultural lessees, share tenants, farmworkers, actual tillers, or occupants found in the
subject landholding.

The RCLUPPl/CLUPPI ocular inspection team shall, within five (5) days from conduct of ocular inspection,
accomplish an Investigation Report which shall include the result of its dialogue.

The RCLUPPI/Cl UPPI shall deliberate on the merits of the application and may call the applicant and/or
oppositor(s), if any. for clarificatory questioning, to judiciously resolve any dispute arising from the
application. The RCLU'PPI shall invite the PARO

21.16.
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21.18.

to participate in the deliberations. Upon his discretion, the PARO may submit a written comment to the
RCLUPPI/CLUPPI.

Within sixty (60) days from issuance of the MARC certification, but not later than eighty (80) days from
Filing Date, the RCLUPPl/CLUPPI shall forward its recommendation, together with the records, to the
approving authority.

Within thirty (30) days from submission of the recommendation, the approving authority shall resolve
the application and fumish copies of the decision to the applicant and oppositor(s), if any.

The tiling of any protest shall interrupt any running period for processing applications for conversion and
shall lift the deadline for approving or disapproving the application. Upon receipt of a protest, the
RCI.UPPl/CLUPPI shall order the tiling of a comment, reply. rejoinder, and such other pleadings that may
aid in a judicious resolution of the protest issues, and thereafter schedule hearings where the parties
may present their respective evidence. Aficr conclusion of the hean'ngs, the RCLUPPl/CLUPPI shall
submit its recommendation to the approving authority which shall resolve the protest simultaneously
with the application.