Sec. 17. 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.]
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