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     257.01 Records required. 

    Each person or authorized child-placing agency permitted by 
 law to receive children, secure homes for children, or care for 
 children, shall keep a record containing the name, age, former 
 residence, legal status, health records, sex, race, and 
 accumulated length of time in foster care, if applicable, of 
 each child received; the name, former residence, occupation, 
 health history, and character, of each birth parent; the date of 
 reception, placing out, and adoption of each child, and the 
 name, race, occupation, and residence of the person with whom a 
 child is placed; the date of the removal of any child to another 
 home and the reason for removal; the date of termination of the 
 guardianship; the history of each child until the child reaches 
 the age of 18 years, is legally adopted, or is discharged 
 according to law; and further demographic and other information 
 as is required by the commissioner of human services. 

    HIST: (4560) Ex1919 c 51 s 1; 1951 c 644 s 1; 1973 c 725 s 47; 
 1983 c 278 s 1; 1984 c 654 art 5 s 58; 1986 c 444; 1994 c 631 s 
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