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§10-7505-6.6.
§10-7505-6.6.
A. 1. For each adoption or annulment of adoption, the attorney or
child-placing agency handling the adoption or annulment of adoption
shall prepare and the clerk of the court shall certify, within thirty
(30) days after the decree becomes final, a certificate of such decree
on a form furnished by the State Registrar of Vital Statistics.
2. Before the fifteenth day of each calendar month, the attorney or
child-placing agency handling the adoption or annulment of adoption
shall forward to the State Registrar the certificates prepared by the
attorney or agency handling the adoption or annulment of adoption
during the preceding calendar month. If a biological parent has filed
an affidavit of nondisclosure pursuant to Section 7503-2.5 of this
title, the attorney or agency handling the adoption shall attach the
affidavit of nondisclosure to the certificate of such decree and
forward it with the certificate to the State Registrar.
B. The State Registrar, upon receipt of a certificate of a decree of
adoption, shall prepare a supplementary birth certificate in the new
name of the adopted person with the names of the adoptive parents
listed as the parents. The city and county of the place of birth, the
hospital, and the name of the physician shall not be changed from the
information provided on the original certificate of birth. If the
adopted person was born in a foreign country, the State Registrar
shall prepare a certificate of foreign birth.
C. The State Registrar shall seal and file the original certificate of
birth, if any, with the certificate of decree of adoption and the
affidavit of nondisclosure, if any, attached. Upon receipt of a
certificate of a court order of annulment of adoption, the State
Registrar shall restore the original certificate to its original place
in the files.
D. For adoptions finalized after November 1, 1997, the State Registrar
shall provide an adopted person, at that person's request, with an
uncertified copy of the person's original certificate of birth at any
time after the adopted person's eighteenth birthday, if all of the
following conditions are met:
1. The adopted person has submitted satisfactory proof of identity;
2. The adopted person has submitted an affidavit in which the adopted
person states under oath that such person does not have a biological
sibling under the age of eighteen (18) who is currently in an adoptive
family and whose location is known to the adopted person; and
3. The State Registrar has ascertained that at the time of the request
there is no unrevoked affidavit of nondisclosure by a biological
parent on file. However, if an unrevoked affidavit of nondisclosure
from only one biological parent is on file and the other conditions
have been met, the State Registrar may release to the adopted person
an uncertified copy of the person's original certificate of birth
after deleting from that copy of the birth certificate any identifying
information regarding the biological parent who filed the unrevoked
affidavit of nondisclosure, including, if necessary, the original
surname of the adopted person.
E. The State Registrar shall not disclose an original certificate of
birth or other sealed adoption records, except as permitted by
subsection D of this section, or upon order of the court for good
cause shown pursuant to Section 7505-1.1 of this title.
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