KRS 213.066: Reports of adoptions and annulments or amendments of adoptions.

(1) For each adoption decreed by a Circuit Court in the Commonwealth, the court shall

require the preparation of a report of adoption on a form prescribed and furnished

by the state registrar. The report shall include the facts necessary to establish a new

certificate of birth of the person adopted and identify the order of adoption, and be

certified by the clerk of the court.

(2) Information necessary to prepare the report of adoption shall be furnished by each

petitioner for adoption or the petitioner's attor ney. The Department for Community

Based Services or any other agency or person having knowledge of the facts shall

supply the court with the additional information necessary to complete the report.

The provision of the information shall be prerequisite to the issuance of a final

decree in the matter by the court.

(3) If an adoption decree is amended or annulled, the clerk of the court shall prepare a

report thereof which shall include the facts necessary to identify the original

adoption report and the fact s amended in the adoption decree necessary to properly

amend the birth record.

(4) Not later than the fifteenth day of each calendar month or more frequently, the clerk

of the court shall forward to the state registrar reports of decrees of adoption,

annulments of adoption, and amendments of decrees of adoption which were

entered in the preceding month, together with such related reports as the state

registrar shall require.

(5) If the state registrar receives a report of adoption, annulment of adoption, or

amendment of a decree of adoption for a person born outside this state, the state

registrar shall forward the report to the state registrar in the state of birth. If the birth

occurred in a foreign country and the child was not a citizen of the United Sta tes at

the time of birth, the state registrar shall prepare a record of foreign birth as

provided by KRS 213.056(2). If the child was born in Canada, the state registrar

shall also send a copy of the report of adoption, annulment of adoption, or

amendment of a decree of adoption to the appropriate registration authority in that

country.