{"data":{"id":"us-mt/42-2-218","jurisdiction":"us-mt","citation":"42-2-218","heading":"Duties of department upon receipt of request.","body":"(1) Whenever the department receives a request, the department shall:\n(a) search its records of putative father registrations and search its records for any acknowledgment of paternity filed pursuant to 40-6-105; and\n(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.\n(2) The department may charge a reasonable fee for responding to a request under this section.","path":["TITLE 42. ADOPTION","CHAPTER 2. ADOPTION OF CHILD","Part 2. Putative Father Registration"],"source_url":"https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0420/chapter_0020/part_0020/section_0180/0420-0020-0020-0180.html","current_through":"Montana Code Annotated 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T04:55:16Z","sha256":"c84ec1b681bc10e8376c2cba892d9ac6b36507bb8845169648a68880dfd38b79","source_id":"us-mt","stale":false,"prev":"us-mt/42-2-217","next":"us-mt/42-2-219"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}