KRS 213.071: Establishment of new birth certificate for person born in Commonwealth -

- Findings of paternity reported -- Procedure when judgment or

acknowledgment of paternity is reversed or modified -- Copies of original birth

certificate sealed -- Birth certificate for adopted child.

(1) The state registrar shall establish a new certificate of birth for a person born in the

Commonwealth when the state registrar receives the following:

(a) A report of adoption as provided in KRS 213.066 or a report of ado ption

prepared and filed in accordance with the laws of another state or foreign

country or a certified copy of the decree of adoption, together with the

information necessary to identify the original certificate of birth and to

establish a new certificate of birth; or

(b) A request that a new certificate be established as prescribed by administrative

regulation and the evidence as required by administrative regulation proving

that the person has been legitimated, or that a court of competent jurisdiction

has determined the paternity of the person, or that both parents have

acknowledged the paternity of the person in which case the surname of the

child shall be changed in accordance with KRS 213.046.

(2) If paternity is determined in a court action, the cler k shall report the findings of the

court to the state registrar on forms prescribed and furnished for that purpose. The

reports shall be made no later than the fifteenth of the month following the date of

the order.

(3) If a new certificate is established, the actual place and date of birth shall be shown

except in the case of adoption. If the adopted child is under eighteen (18) years of

age, the birth certificate shall not contain any information revealing the child is

adopted and shall show the adoptive parent or parents as the natural parent or

parents of the child. The new birth certificate, when issued, shall not contain the

place of birth, hospital, or name of the doctor or midwife. This information shall be

given only by an order of the court in whic h the child was adopted. If the child was

born in the Commonwealth, the new birth certificate shall show the residence of the

adoptive parents as the birthplace of the child, and this shall be deemed for all legal

purposes to be the birthplace of the child.

(4) The new certificate shall be substituted for the original certificate of birth in the

files, and the original certificate of birth and the evidence of adoption, paternity

determination, or paternity acknowledgment shall not be subject to inspection

except upon order of a court of competent jurisdiction.

(5) If any judgment under this section is reversed, amended, modified, or vacated in any

particular, the clerk of the court shall notify the state registrar of the reversal or

modification, and the state registrar shall make the changes, if any, in the records as

may be necessary by the reversal or modification, or if the voluntary

acknowledgment of paternity pursuant to KRS 213.046(4) is rescinded, the state

registrar shall make the changes, if any, in the records as may be necessary by the

reversal, modification, or rescission of the voluntary acknowledgment of paternity.

(6) If a new certificate of birth is established by the state registrar, all copies of the

original certificate of birth on file shall be sealed.

(7) If no birth certificate is on file for an adopted child born in Kentucky, the state

registrar shall prepare a certificate of birth in accordance with information furnished

by the clerk of the Circuit Court which issued the adoption order. The state registrar

shall furnish the clerks of the Circuit Courts the necessary forms to carry out the

provisions of this section.