2009 Iowa Code
Title 4 - Public Health
Subtitle 2 - Health-Related Activities
CHAPTER 144 - VITAL STATISTICS
144.18 - COURT HEARING.

        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.  

         [C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 144.18]
         Referred to in § 144.15, 144.25, 331.611