Sec. 1. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), the Indiana department of health shall establish a new certificate of birth for an individual born in Indiana upon a receipt of an official report that the individual has been adopted.

     (b) The Indiana department of health shall not establish a new certificate of birth following an adoption if:

(1) the court decreeing the adoption;

(2) the adoptive parents; or

(3) the adopted individual;

so requests.

     (c) A new certificate of birth established under this section must show the actual place and date of birth.

[Pre-1997 Recodification Citation: 31-3-1-12(e).]

As added by P.L.1-1997, SEC.11. Amended by P.L.56-2023, SEC.287.