2010 Tennessee Code
Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection
Chapter 3 - Vital Records
Part 3 - Births
68-3-312 - New certificate of birth Court report of adoption.

68-3-312. New certificate of birth Court report of adoption.

(a)  For each final decree of adoption by a court of competent jurisdiction in Tennessee, the court shall require the preparation of a report of adoption on a form prescribed and furnished by the state registrar.

(b)  For each amendment or annulment of an order of adoption, the clerk of the court shall prepare a report thereon, which shall include such facts as are necessary to identify the original report of adoption and those facts amended in the adoption decree, and forward a certified copy of the report to the state registrar.

(c)  The child-placing agency or, in family adoptions, the attorney or petitioners, shall complete, on a form furnished by the state registrar, the request for a new certificate of birth by adoption and shall file this form with the clerk of the court to be forwarded to the state registrar with the certified report of adoption when the final order has been granted. This form shall furnish information for locating the certificate of birth in the original name and information concerning the adoptive parent or parents to be entered on the new certificate. The form shall be signed by the petitioner or petitioners to whom the final decree was granted and, in stepparent adoptions, the adoptive and natural parent.

(d)  No later than the tenth day of each calendar month or as directed by the state registrar, the clerk of the court shall forward to the state registrar the certified report of adoption, annulment or amendment to the adoption decree and the request for a new certificate of birth by adoption.

(e)  When the state registrar receives a report of adoption, annulment or amendment to the decree of adoption from the clerk of the court for a person born in another state, the report shall be forwarded to the state registrar in the state of birth. If the birth occurred in a foreign country, the report of adoption shall be returned to the attorney or agency handling the adoption for submission to the appropriate federal agency.

(f)  Upon receipt of a certified copy of the final decree of adoption, or certified report of adoption prepared in accordance with the laws of another state or foreign country, and the request for a new certificate of birth by adoption, the state registrar shall prepare and file a new certificate of birth in the adopted name for a person born in Tennessee, if not in conflict with Tennessee adoption laws.

[Acts 1977, ch. 128, § 10; T.C.A., § 53-452.]