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§ 5078. Adoption; new birth certificate
(a) The supervisor of vital records registration shall establish a new birth certificate for a person born in the state when the supervisor receives a record of adoption as provided in section 449 of Title 15 or a record of adoption prepared and filed in accordance with the laws of another state or foreign country.
(b) The new birth certificate shall be on a form prescribed by the commissioner of health. The new birth certificate shall include:
(1) the actual place and date of birth;
(2) the adoptive parents as though they were natural parents;
(3) a notation that it was issued by authority of this chapter.
(c) The new birth certificate shall not contain a statement whether the adopted person was illegitimate.
(d) The new certificate, and sufficient information to identify the original certificate, shall be transmitted to the clerk of the town of birth to be filed according to the procedures in section 451 of Title 15.
(e) The supervisor of vital records registration shall not establish a new birth certificate if the supervisor receives, accompanying the record of adoption, a written request that a new certificate not be established:
(1) from the adopted person if 18 years or older; or
(2) from the adoptive parent or parents if the adopted person is under 18 years of age.
(f) When the supervisor of vital records registration receives a record of adoption for a person born in another state, the supervisor shall forward a certified copy of the record of adoption to the state registrar in the state of birth, with a request that a new birth certificate be established under the laws of that state. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 27, eff. March 1, 1961; 1979, No. 142 (Adj. Sess.), § 13; 1985, No. 229 (Adj. Sess.), § 2.)
