2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 7-54. Certification of birth registration or certificate of foreign birth for persons born outside the country and adopted by state residents.
Sec. 7-54. Certification of birth registration or certificate of foreign birth for
persons born outside the country and adopted by state residents. The department
shall prepare a certification of birth registration or a certificate of foreign birth for any
person born outside of the country and adopted by residents of this state, provided an
authenticated and exemplified copy of the order of adoption of the court of the district
in which the adoption proceedings were had or such other evidence as is considered
satisfactory by the probate court of the district in which such person resides shall be
filed with such probate court, and such probate court notifies the department that such
copy or satisfactory evidence has been so filed. Such certification of birth registration
shall contain only the adopted name, sex, date of birth, place of birth and date of preparation of such certification of birth registration by the department. Such certificate of
foreign birth shall contain the adopted name, sex, date of birth, place of birth, legal name
of adoptive parent or parents and date of preparation of such certificate of foreign birth.
No certification of birth registration or certificate of foreign birth shall be prepared by
the department unless upon specific written request of the person to whom the certification of birth registration relates, if over sixteen years of age, or of the adopting parents
or the court of probate of the district in which the adoption proceedings were had. When
the department has prepared such certificate of birth registration or certificate of foreign
birth, copies thereof shall be issued by the department in accordance with the provisions
of subsection (a) of section 7-52.
History: 1972 act changed age of majority from twenty-one to eighteen years; P.A. 75-170 required certification upon request of court of probate in district where adoption proceedings took place; P.A. 77-614 substituted department of health services for department of health, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 81-190 allowed the department of health services to prepare a certification of birth registration for any person born outside the country and adopted in this state for whom the country of birth will not furnish a substituted birth certificate; P.A. 85-326 made issuance of certification of birth registration mandatory rather than optional and deleted provision re substituted birth certificate from state or country of birth; P.A. 87-148 added provisions re adoptions in other states, substituted "authenticated and exemplified" for "certified" and substituted "probate court" for "department of health services" re repository for evidence; P.A. 89-98 removed language which limited the requirement for preparation of birth certificates to persons who were adopted in Connecticut or in another state by residents of Connecticut; P.A. 93-381 replaced department of health services with department of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 01-163 changed required minimum age of requesting person to whom certification of birth registration relates from eighteen to sixteen and made technical changes; P.A. 03-247 amended section to add provisions re preparation of certificate of foreign birth for any person born outside of the country and adopted by residents of the state, to require that certificate contain adopted name, sex, date of birth, place of birth, legal name of adoptive parents and date of preparation of such certificate, to eliminate requirement for certification of birth registration for persons born outside of the state and adopted by residents of the state, to change reference to Sec. 7-52 to Sec. 7-52(a), and to make a technical change.
