42-2-218 . Duties of department upon receipt of request. (1) Whenever the department receives a request, the department shall: (a) search its records of putative father registrations and search its records for any acknowledgment of paternity filed pursuant to 40-6-105 ; and (b) notify the requestor as to whether a paternity action has been filed and a paternity order issued to the department requiring the issuance of a new birth certificate concerning a child who is or may be the subject of an adoption that the attorney or agency is arranging. (2) The department may charge a reasonable fee for responding to a request under this section.
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