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42-2-218: Duties of department upon receipt of request.

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  1. TITLE 42. ADOPTION
  2. CHAPTER 2. ADOPTION OF CHILD
  3. Part 2. Putative Father Registration

(1) Whenever the department receives a request, the department shall:

(a) search its records of putative father registrations and search its records for any acknowledgment of paternity filed pursuant to 40-6-105; and

(b) notify the requestor as to whether a paternity action has been filed and a paternity order issued to the department requiring the issuance of a new birth certificate concerning a child who is or may be the subject of an adoption that the attorney or agency is arranging.

(2) The department may charge a reasonable fee for responding to a request under this section.

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