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144.18 COURT HEARING.
The court shall fix a time and place for hearing the petition and
shall give the registration official who refused to register the
petitioner's delayed certificate of birth at least ten days' notice
of such hearing. If both persons to be named as parents are not a
party to the petition, such person or persons, if living, shall also
be given at least ten days' notice of the hearing. The court shall
prescribe the manner of such notice. Such official, or the
official's authorized representative, may appear and testify in the
proceeding.
If the court from the evidence presented finds that the person for
whom a delayed certificate of birth is sought was born in this state,
it shall make findings as the case may require and shall issue an
order on a form prescribed and furnished by the state registrar to
establish a record of birth. The order shall include the birth data
to be registered, a description of the evidence presented, and the
date of the court's action.
The clerks of the district court shall forward each order to the
state registrar not later than the tenth day of the calendar month
following the month in which it was entered. The order shall be
registered by the state registrar and shall constitute the record of
birth, from which copies may be issued in accordance with sections
144.42 to 144.46, inclusive. Section History: Early Form
[C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 144.18]
Referred to in § 144.15, 144.25, 331.611
