2012 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure
Chapter 803 - Termination of Parental Rights and Adoption
Section 45a-745 - (Formerly Sec. 45a-68a). Adoption record.

(a) For each final decree of adoption decreed by a court of probate, the clerk of the court shall prepare a record on a form prescribed by the Department of Public Health. The record shall include all facts necessary to locate and identify the original birth certificate of the adopted person and to establish the new birth certificate of the adopted person, and shall include official notice from the court of the adoption, including identification of the court action and proceedings.

(b) Each petitioner for adoption, the attorney for the petitioner and each social or welfare agency or other person concerned with the adoption shall supply the clerk with information which is necessary to complete the adoption record. The supplying of the information shall be a prerequisite to the issuance of a final adoption decree by the court.

(c) Not later than the fifteenth day of each calendar month, the clerk of the Court of Probate shall forward to the Department of Public Health the record provided for in subsection (a) of this section for all final adoption decrees issued during the preceding month.

(d) When the Department of Public Health receives a record of adoption for a person born outside the state, the record shall be forwarded to the proper registration authority of the place of birth.

(e) The Department of Public Health, upon receipt of a record of adoption for a person born in this state, shall establish a new certificate of birth in the manner prescribed in section 7-53, except that no new certificate of birth shall be established if the court decreeing the adoption, the adoptive parents or the adopted person, if over fourteen years of age, so requests.

(1957, P.A. 298, S. 1; P.A. 76-12; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 80-476, S. 159; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 96-130, S. 23.)

History: Sec. 45-64 transferred to Sec. 45-68a in 1975; P.A. 76-12 deleted former Subsec. (d) requiring adopting parents to pay court of probate $1.00 for each record prepared and forwarded to health department and relettered remaining Subsecs. accordingly; P.A. 77-614 replaced department of health with department of health services, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-476 rephrased provisions and substituted “birth certificate” for “certificate of birth”; Sec. 45-68a transferred to Sec. 45a-745 in 1991; 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. 96-130 made a technical change in Subsec. (a) by deleting “fact of” before “adoption”.