2006 Utah Code - 78-30-16 — Definitions -- Applications.

     78-30-16.   Definitions -- Applications.
     (1) As used in Sections 78-30-17 through 78-30-19:
     (a) "Adoptee" means a person who has been legally adopted.
     (b) "Adoption" means the judicial act which creates the relationship of parent and child where it did not previously exist and which permanently deprives a birth parent of his parental rights.
     (c) "Adult adoptee" means an adoptee who is 21 years of age or older.
     (d) "Adult sibling" means a brother or sister of the adoptee, who is 21 years of age or older and whose birth mother or father is the same as that of the adoptee.
     (e) "Birth parent" means a biological mother, a person whose paternity of a child is established, or, an alleged father, who has been identified as the father of a child by the child's birth mother, and who has not denied paternity.
     (f) "Bureau" means the Bureau of Vital Statistics within the Department of Health operating under Title 26, Chapter 2.
     (g) "Genetic and social history" means a comprehensive report, when obtainable, on an adoptee's birth parents, aunts, uncles, and grandparents, which contains the following information:
     (i) medical history;
     (ii) health status;
     (iii) cause of and age at death;
     (iv) height, weight, eye, and hair color;
     (v) ethnic origins;
     (vi) where appropriate, levels of education and professional achievement; and
     (vii) religion, if any.
     (h) "Health history" means a comprehensive report of the adoptee's health status at the time of placement for adoption, and his medical history, including neonatal, psychological, physiological, and medical care history.
     (i) "Identifying information" means the name and address of a birth parent or adult adoptee, or other specific information which by itself or in reasonable conjunction with other information may be used to identify that person.
     (2) Sections 78-30-17 through 78-30-19 do not apply to adoptions by a stepparent whose spouse is the adoptee's birth parent.
     (3) Sections 78-30-17 through 78-30-19 apply only to adoptions of adoptees born in this state.

Amended by Chapter 65, 1990 General Session