2009 Iowa Code
Title 4 - Public Health
Subtitle 2 - Health-Related Activities
CHAPTER 144 - VITAL STATISTICS
144.19 - ADOPTION CERTIFICATE.

        144.19  ADOPTION CERTIFICATE.
         For each adoption decreed by any court in this state, the court
      shall require the preparation of a certificate of adoption on a form
      prescribed and furnished by the state registrar.  The certificate
      shall include a report of the facts necessary to locate and identify
      the certificate of birth of the person adopted, provide information
      necessary to establish a new certificate of birth of the person
      adopted, identify the order of adoption, and be certified by the
      clerk of the court.  A fee established by the department by rule
      based on average administrative cost shall be collected for the
      preparation of a certificate of adoption.  Fees collected under this
      section shall be deposited in the general fund of the state.  

         [C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, § 144.44; C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §
      144.19; 81 Acts, ch 64, § 4]
         Referred to in § 144.23, 600.13