Section 213.066 - Reports of adoptions and annulments or amendments of adoptions(1) For each adoption decreed by a Circuit Court in the Commonwealth, the court shall require the preparation of a report of adoption on a form prescribed and furnished by the state registrar. The report shall include the facts necessary to establish a new certificate of birth of the person adopted and identify the order of adoption, and be certified by the clerk of the court.(2) Information necessary to prepare the report of adoption shall be furnished by each petitioner for adoption or the petitioner's attorney. The Department for Community Based Services or any other agency or person having knowledge of the facts shall supply the court with the additional information necessary to complete the report. The provision of the information shall be prerequisite to the issuance of a final decree in the matter by the court.(3) If an adoption decree is amended or annulled, the clerk of the court shall prepare a report thereof which shall include the facts necessary to identify the original adoption report and the facts amended in the adoption decree necessary to properly amend the birth record.(4) Not later than the fifteenth day of each calendar month or more frequently, the clerk of the court shall forward to the state registrar reports of decrees of adoption, annulments of adoption, and amendments of decrees of adoption which were entered in the preceding month, together with such related reports as the state registrar shall require.(5) If the state registrar receives a report of adoption, annulment of adoption, or amendment of a decree of adoption for a person born outside this state, the state registrar shall forward the report to the state registrar in the state of birth. If the birth occurred in a foreign country and the child was not a citizen of the United States at the time of birth, the state registrar shall prepare a record of foreign birth as provided by KRS 213.056(2). If the child was born in Canada, the state registrar shall also send a copy of the report of adoption, annulment of adoption, or amendment of a decree of adoption to the appropriate registration authority in that country.Effective:7/14/2000
Amended 2000, Ky. Acts ch. 14, sec. 44, effective7/14/2000. -- Amended 1998, Ky. Acts ch. 426, sec. 386, effective 7/15/1998. -- Created 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 369, sec. 12, effective 7/13/1990.