§ 48-9-107. New birth certificates.
§48‑9‑107. New birth certificates.
(a) Upon receipt of areport of the adoption of a minor from the Division, or the documents requiredby G.S. 48‑9‑102(g) from the clerk of superior court in theadoption of an adult, or a report of an adoption from another state, the StateRegistrar shall prepare a new birth certificate for the adoptee that shallcontain the adoptee's full adoptive name, sex, state of birth, and date ofbirth; the full name of the adoptive father, if applicable; the full maidenname of the adoptive mother, if applicable; and any other pertinent informationconsistent with this section as may be determined by the State Registrar. Thenew certificate shall contain no reference to the adoption of the adoptee andshall not refer to the adoptive parents in any way other than as the adoptee'sparents.
(b) In an adoption by astepparent, the State Registrar shall prepare a new birth certificate pursuantto subsection (a) of this section except:
(1) The adoptive parentand the parent whose relation with the adoptee remains unchanged shall belisted as the adoptee's mother and father on the new birth certificate; and
(2) The city and countyof birth of the adoptee shall be the same on the new birth certificate as onthe original certificate.
The names of the adoptee'sparents shall not be changed as provided in subdivision (1) of this subsectionif the petitioner, the petitioner's spouse, the adoptee if age 12 or older, andany living parent whose parental rights are terminated by the adoption jointlyfile a request that the parents' names not be changed with the court prior tothe entry of the adoption decree. The Division shall send a copy of thisrequest with its report to the State Registrar or other appropriate official inthe adoption of a minor stepchild, and the clerk of superior court shall send acopy with the documents required by G.S. 48‑9‑102(g) in theadoption of an adult stepchild.
(c) The State Registrarshall seal the original certificate of birth and all records in the possessionof that office pertaining to the adoption. These records shall not be unsealedexcept as provided in this Article. The State Registrar shall provide certifiedtyped copies or abstracts of the new certificate of birth of an adopteeprepared pursuant to subsection (a) of this section to the adoptee, theadoptee's children, the adoptive parents, and the adoptee's spouse, brothers,and sisters. For purposes of this subsection, "parent","brother", and "sister" shall mean the adoptee's adoptiveparent, brother, or sister and shall not mean a former parent, brother, orsister.
(d) At the time ofpreparing the new birth certificate pursuant to subsection (a) of this section,the State Registrar shall notify the register of deeds or appropriate officialin the health department in the county of the adoptee's birth to remove theadoptee's birth certificate from the records and forward it to the StateRegistrar for retention under seal with the original certificate of birth inthe State Registrar's office. The register of deeds shall also delete all indexentries for that birth certificate. The State Registrar shall not issue copiesof birth certificates for adoptees to registers of deeds. Only the StateRegistrar shall issue certified copies of such records, and these copies shallbe prepared as prescribed in subsection (c) of this section.
(e) The State Registrarmay by rule prescribe requirements for reports of adoptions from other states. (1949,c. 300; 1951, c. 730, ss. 1‑4; 1955, c. 951, s. 1; 1967, c. 880, s. 3; c.1042, ss. 1‑3; 1969, c. 21, s. 2‑6; c. 977; 1971, c. 1231, s. 1;1973, c. 476, s. 128; c. 849, ss. 1‑3; 1975, c. 91; 1981, c. 657; 1983,c. 454, s. 6; 1989, c. 208; c. 727, s. 219(3), (4); 1993, c. 553, s. 14; 1995,c. 457, s. 2; 1997‑215, s. 18.)