Ark. Code § 9-9-801

Current with legislation from 2024 Fiscal and Special Sessions.

Section 9-9-801 - Definitions

As used in this subchapter:

(1) "Adoption file" means a file maintained by the Department of Health that contains an original birth certificate and adoption decree of an adoptee;

(2) "Genetic and social history" has the same meaning as provided under § 9-9-501; and

(3) "Requester" means a person twenty-one (21) years of age or older who requests an adoption file under § 9-9-803 and is:

(A) The adoptee to whom the adoption file requested pertains; or

(B) The child, surviving spouse, or guardian of any child of a deceased adoptee to whom the adoption file requested pertains.

Ark. Code § 9-9-801

Added by Act 2017, No. 519,§ 1, eff. 8/1/2017