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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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