The mayor of Salto, Andrés Lima reported that the commune is claiming from the Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC), debts that are due to the completion of tasks that correspond to the Civil Status Registry.
Since the beginning of this year, the departmental governments carry out tasks that the Justices of the Peace performed, such as weddings.
Lima explained that in December 2021, the Salto administration signed an agreement with the MEC by which the services that the Peace Courts had provided until then were now provided by the departmental government and the mayors. It was established that the officials of the Judiciary who had these tasks would go on to work in the municipalities and proceed to the economic reimbursement of the proceeds, “which has not happened,” Lima said.
The mayor pointed out that from January to this day “105 marriages have been carried out, 15 of which were at home. In addition, we have 50 more and 45 date requests in process. 650 death certificates, 500 birth certificates, 50 recognition certificates and 100 legitimation certificates have been issued. This is the work carried out by the Salto administration. But those passes in commission that the minister suggested were going to reach the mayors, have not yet arrived. The minister also said publicly that the economic reimbursement of that income generated by each of the acts of the Civil Registry was going to be carried out, but that has not reached the mayor.
He specified that “each marriage celebration at home has a cost of 25,780 pesos and each marriage celebration in the mayor’s office has a stamp cost of 430 pesos, and all these amounts are going to the MEC. Another example, 20 single certificates have been issued, each one of them has a cost of 1,850 pesos. That amount has not come to the administration, it goes to the MEC.” He added that this is what happens in the case of Salto, but that the same thing has happened in other municipalities. “It seems to us an unfair situation” emphasized Lima, “the activity is being carried out by the municipalities but the one who collects is the MEC. We provide premises, officials, we pay overtime, and the resources are received by the ministry. Only with a marriage celebrated at home could we pay a month’s rent for a place for marriage celebrations. We put the best will but it is not right that these situations occur and for this reason, this is the claim or proposal that we are sending to the ministry, “concluded the departmental hierarch.
