This procedure regulates the method for cancellation, modification, rectification, or completion of civil status documents and their annotations.

According to Art. 58 of Law 119/1996 republished, regarding civil status documents, the rectification of civil status documents and the annotations entered in their margins is done based on the order of the mayor of the administrative-territorial unit holding the civil status document, ex officio or at the request of the interested person, with the prior approval of the County Public Community Service for Personal 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 their annotations, accompanied by supporting documents, is submitted to the Public Community Service for Personal Records - Civil Status Service, which holds the civil status document, or, as the case may be, to the city hall of the domicile locality.

This is resolved within 30 days, by issuing the order by the mayor of the locality, which is communicated to the applicant within 10 days from the date of issue.

The reasoned report, including the result of the checks, will be submitted for approval to the mayor of the locality, after having been previously endorsed by the head of the Civil Status Service within the County Public Directorate for Personal Records as well as by the director of the same directorate.

The order may be contested in court in whose territorial jurisdiction the issuing authority is based, under the conditions of the law.