Section 31-19-5-17 - Departmental responsibilities upon request for registry search Whenever the state department receives a request under section 15 of this chapter, the state department shall:
(1) search the state department's records of paternity determinations and notices of filings of petitions to establish paternity filed under IC 31-14-9-2; and(2) notify the attorney or agency, in compliance with IC 31-19-6, as to whether a record of a paternity determination or a notice of a filing of a petition to establish paternity has been filed concerning a child who is or may be the subject of an adoption that the attorney or agency is arranging.Pre-1997 Recodification Citation: 31-3-1.5-15.
Amended by P.L. 56-2023,SEC. 276, eff. 7/1/2023.As added by P.L. 1-1997, SEC.11. Amended by P.L. 58-2009, SEC.17.