This procedure regulates the method for cancelling, modifying, rectifying, or completing civil status documents and their mentions.

In accordance with art.58 of Law 119/1996 republished, regarding civil status documents, the rectification of civil status documents and the mentions written on their margins shall be made based on the decision of the mayor of the administrative-territorial unit that holds the civil status document, ex officio or at the request of the interested party, with the prior approval of the County Community Public Service for Persons' Records.

By interested person we mean the natural person to whom the civil status document refers.

The application for rectification of civil status documents and the mentions entered on them, accompanied by supporting documents, shall be submitted to the Community Public Service for Persons' Records - Civil Status Service, which holds the civil status document, or, as the case may be, to the city hall of the locality of domicile.

This will be solved within 30 days, by issuing the decision by the mayor of the locality, which will be communicated to the applicant within 10 days from the date of issuance.

The substantiated report, including the result of the verifications, will be presented for approval to the mayor of the locality, after being previously endorsed by the head of the Civil Status Service within the County Public Directorate for Persons' Records as well as by the director of the same directorate.

The decision may be contested at the court in whose territorial jurisdiction the issuing authority has its headquarters, under the conditions of the law.