§ 801 - Report of adoption
§ 3-801. Report of adoption
(a) Within 30 days after a decree of adoption becomes final, the clerk of the court shall prepare a report of adoption on a form furnished by the supervisor of vital records and certify and send the report to the supervisor. The report shall include:
(1) information in the court's record of the proceeding for adoption which is necessary to locate and identify the adoptee's birth certificate or, in the case of an adoptee born outside the United States, evidence the court finds appropriate to consider as to the adoptee's date and place of birth;
(2) information necessary to issue a new birth certificate for the adoptee and a request that a new certificate be issued, unless the court, the adoptive parent, or an adoptee who has attained 14 years of age requests that a new certificate not be issued; and
(3) the file number of the decree of adoption and the date on which the decree became final.
(b) Within 30 days after a decree of adoption is amended or set aside, the clerk of the court shall prepare a report of that action on a form furnished by the supervisor of vital records and shall certify and send the report to the supervisor of vital records. The report shall include information necessary to identify the original report of adoption, and shall also include information necessary to amend or withdraw any new birth certificate that was issued pursuant to the original report of adoption. (Added 1995, No. 161 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)