TITLE 42. ADOPTION

CHAPTER 5. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

Part 2. Legal Effect

Communication Of Decree To Department

42-5-201. Communication of decree to department. (1) Within 30 days after a decree of adoption becomes final, the clerk of court shall send a report of the adoption to the department.

(2) If petitioners have requested it, the court shall order the vital statistics bureau to issue a new birth certificate to the child.

History: En. Sec. 135, Ch. 480, L. 1997.