2010 Pennsylvania Code
Title 23 - DOMESTIC RELATIONS
Chapter 73 - Civil Provisions of General Application
7310 - Duties of department.

     § 7310.  Duties of department.
        (a)  Designation.--The department is the State information
     agency under this part.
        (b)  Duties.--The department shall do all of the following:
            (1)  Compile and maintain a current list, including
        addresses, of the tribunals in this State which have
        jurisdiction under this part and any support enforcement
        agencies in this State and transmit a copy to the state
        information agency of every other state.
            (2)  Maintain a register of tribunals and support
        enforcement agencies received from other states.
            (3)  Forward to the appropriate tribunal in the place in
        this State in which the individual obligee or the obligor
        resides, or in which the obligor's property is believed to be
        located, documents concerning a proceeding under this part
        received from an initiating tribunal or the state information
        agency of the initiating state.
            (4)  Obtain information concerning the location of the
        obligor and the obligor's property within this State not
        exempt from execution by such means as postal verification;
        Federal or State locator services; examination of telephone
        directories; requests for the obligor's address from
        employers; and examination of governmental records,
        including, to the extent not prohibited by other law, those
        relating to real property, vital statistics, law enforcement,
        taxation, motor vehicles, driver's licenses and Social
        Security.
            (5)  Transmit to another state, electronically or by
        another method, a request for assistance in a case involving
        enforcement of a support order containing sufficient
        information to enable the state to which the request is
        transmitted to compare the transmitted information to the
        information of that state. The transmittal shall constitute a
        certification of arrears and that the state has complied with
        all procedural due process requirements applicable to the
        case.
            (6)  A response to a request for assistance received from
        another state under this part must be completed by the
        responding Commonwealth tribunal. The response, which may be
        transmitted electronically or by other methods, shall confirm
        the receipt of the request, action taken, amount of support
        collected and any additional information or action required
        by the requesting tribunal to obtain enforcement of the child
        support obligation.
     (Dec. 16, 1997, P.L.549, No.58, eff. Jan. 1, 1998)

        1997 Amendment.  Act 58 amended subsec. (b).