JONAS DUP-ET, REPRESENTED BY AZUCENA B. DUP-ET, PETITIONER-APPELLANT, VS. AUREA CATAPANG, ROSEMARIE ESPINOSA AND GLORIA MENESES, RESPONDENTS-APPELLEES.
INTING, S.B., J.:
1) The docket fees paid was short[2] of Php4,030.00;
2) The Registry Return Receipts as proof of service of the copies of the Petition to the adverse parties are not attached to the Petition;
3) Both the Verification and Certification of Non-Forum Shopping and the Affidavit of Service are defective because the Notary Public before whom the aforesaid documents were subscribed and sworn to failed to indicate the province or city where she was commissioned pursuant to section 2 (c ) of Rule VIII of the 2004 Rules on Notarial Practice;
4) Only the xerox copy of the assailed decision[3] of the Office of the President was attached to the Petition;
5) The complete records of appealed O.P. Case No. 10-G-323 (DENR Case No. 5510), inclusive of all the pleadings filed before the DENR and all the Resolutions and/or Orders issued by the DENR and the oral documentary evidences presented before the DENR and the Office of the President which would support the allegations in the Petition was not attached thereto.
IN VIEW OF THE FOREGOING, considering that the Petitioners failed to pay the required docketing fees in full which is a jurisdictional requirement and considering further that the Petition is formally defective the Petition for Review is hereby DISMISSED pursuant to Section 7, Rule 43 of the Rules of Court and the case is deemed CLOSED and TERMINATED.
SO ORDERED.
Reyes, Jr., J.C., (Chairperson), and Lopez, M.V. JJ., concur.
[1] Rollo, pp. 3-9
[2] Rollo, pp. 1
[3] Rollo, pp. 84-88