Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
Registrador Civil Municipal
English translation:
Municipal Civil Registrar
Spanish term
Registrador Civil Municipal
| 3 +4 | Municipal Civil Registrar |
Lisa Rosengard
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| 3 | County Clerk-Recorder of Civil Marriages, USA |
Adrian MM.
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| 4 -1 | State Registrar |
Marcelo Viera
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Non-PRO (2): AllegroTrans, philgoddard
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Proposed translations
United Kingdom
experienced and well qualified linguist
Native in: English (Variant: UK)
Works in: Spanish to English, English, Spanish, and 3 more.
Municipal Civil Registrar
"The municipal civil registrar office accepts all documents which can be registered, and judicial decrees affecting the civil status of a person. There, books required by law are filed, kept and preserved in a safe place."
(ES: 'El despacho del Registro Civil Municipal acepta todos los documentos que pueden ser registrados, junto con decretos judiciales que pueden afectar el estado civil de una persona. Allí, libros requeridos de la ley están entre los archivos, donde están retenidos y conservados en un lugar seguro.')
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Teresita Salinas Archini
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neilmac
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Kristina Love
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AllegroTrans
: Your pocket dictionary has (totally by chance) got this correct but "Municipal offices are usually near town council offices" is laughable. I think most of us know what local government is. As for the rest of your "explanation" it's clearly MT
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Austria
Retd.T&I, Barrister & Austro-Advokat
Native in: English (Variants: British, Scottish) 
Works in: Spanish to English, English to Spanish, French to English, and 5 more.
County Clerk-Recorder of Civil Marriages, USA
UK often: Local Superintendent Registrar of Civil Marriages at the Register vs. Registry Office.
In California, the Clerk-Recorder of an individual county is empowered to allow individuals to be deputized for a day to perform one individual civil (non-religious) wedding ceremony.Use of these powers varies between counties;
Santa Cruz offers a *Deputy Commissioner of Civil Marriages* for a Day Program.
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AllegroTrans
: Again, you seem to have the idea that UK or US localisation is de rigueur and you say it would be "civil"; I doubt whether many of your former scrivener notary colleagues would concur
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The asker, de novo, appeared dubious of a mindless and meaningless, literal translation already - as you pointed out - in the glossaries,
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Uruguay
Technical Translations Specialist
Native in: Spanish
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English
State Registrar
This is just another option.
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AllegroTrans
: The text is not from Arkansas, but from a city or town (muncipality) in Honduras, so "State" would be misleading
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