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9-9-801. Definitions.
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9-9-801. Definitions.
As used in this subchapter:
(1) “Adoption file” means a file maintained by the Department of Health that contains an original birth certificate and adoption decree of an adoptee;
(2) “Genetic and social history” has the same meaning as provided under § 9-9-501; and
(3) “Requester” means a person twenty-one (21) years of age or older who requests an adoption file under § 9-9-803 and is:
(A) The adoptee to whom the adoption file requested pertains; or
(B) The child, surviving spouse, or guardian of any child of a deceased adoptee to whom the adoption file requested pertains.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 9-9-801
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9-9-801. Definitions.
As used in this subchapter:
(1) “Adoption file” means a file maintained by the Department of Health that contains an original birth certificate and adoption decree of an adoptee;
(2) “Genetic and social history” has the same meaning as provided under § 9-9-501; and
(3) “Requester” means a person twenty-one (21) years of age or older who requests an adoption file under § 9-9-803 and is:
(A) The adoptee to whom the adoption file requested pertains; or
(B) The child, surviving spouse, or guardian of any child of a deceased adoptee to whom the adoption file requested pertains.
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9-9-501. Definitions.
As used in this subchapter:
(1) “Administrator” means the person charged with maintenance and supervision of a registry and may include the administrator's agents, employees, and designees;
(2) “Adoptee” means a person who has been legally adopted in this state;
(3) “Adoption” means the judicial act of creating the relationship of parent and child when it did not exist previously;
(4) “Adoptive parent” means an adult who has become a parent of a child through the legal process of adoption;
(5) “Adult” means a person eighteen (18) or more years of age;
(6) “Agency” means any public or voluntary organization licensed or approved pursuant to the laws of any jurisdiction within the United States to place children for adoption;
(7) “Birth parent” means:
(A) The man or woman deemed or adjudicated under laws of a jurisdiction of the United States to be the father or mother of genetic origin of a child; or
(B)(i) A putative father of a child if his name appears on the original sealed birth certificate of the child or if he has been alleged by the birth mother to be and has in writing acknowledged being the child's biological father.
(ii) A putative father who has denied or refused to admit paternity shall be deemed not to be a birth parent in the absence of an adjudication under the laws of a jurisdiction of the United States that he is the biological father of the child;
(8) “Genetic and social history” means a comprehensive report, when obtainable, on the birth parents, siblings of the birth parents, if any, other children of either birth parent, if any, and any parents of the birth parents, that shall contain the following information:
(A) Medical history;
(B) Health status;
(C) Cause of and age at death;
(D) Height, weigh
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 9-9-501
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9-9-803. Access to adoption file.
(a) Beginning August 1, 2018, a requester may submit a written request for a copy of an adoption file from the Department of Health.
(b)(1) A request submitted under this section shall include the requester's address and notarized signature and satisfactory proof of the requester's identity as determined by the department.
(2) If the requester is the child, widow or widower, or guardian of any child of the deceased adoptee to whom the adoption file pertains, the requester shall also provide notarized documentation evidencing the requester's relationship to the adoptee.
(c)(1) Upon receipt of a request made under subsection (a) of this section, the department shall mail the adoption file to the requester at the address provided in the request.
(2) If an adoption file contains a form submitted under § 9-9-802(a)(2)(A)(i), the department shall redact the birth parent's name from the copy of the adoption file before it is mailed to the requester.
(3) If a form under § 9-9-802(a)(2)(A)(ii) is submitted after a copy of the adoption file is mailed to the requester, the department shall mail the requester another copy of the adoption file with the birth parent's name included in the adoption file within thirty (30) days of the date the form was removed.
(4) Before mailing a requester an adoption file under subdivision (c)(1) of this section, the department shall mark the certified copy of the original birth certificate contained in the adoption file as “not intended for official use” or similar.
(d) The department shall mail a requester an adoption file by certified mail, return receipt requested.
(e)(1) If an adoption file contains a form submitted under § 9-9-802(a)(3)(A)(i) and (ii), the department shall include the form in
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 9-9-803
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 9-9-803. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.