PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 97

(f) Each clerk of court shall send to the Secretary, on the form that the Secretary
provides, a report of:

(1)     Each decree of adoption;

(2)     Each adjudication of paternity, including the father's Social Security
number; and

(3)     Each revocation or amendment of any decree of adoption or
adjudication of paternity that the court enters.

(G) UPON RECEIPT OF A REPORT OR DECREE OF ANNULMENT OF ADOPTION,
THE ORIGINAL CERTIFICATE OF BIRTH SHALL BE RESTORED TO ITS PLACE IN THE
FILES, AND THE ADOPTION CERTIFICATE AND ANY ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTS IS
NOT SUBJECT TO INSPECTION EXCEPT UPON ORDER OF A COURT OF COMPETENT
JURISDICTION OR AS PROVIDED BY REGULATION.

(H) IF NO CERTIFICATE OF BIRTH IS ON FILE FOR THE PERSON FOR WHOM A
NEW BIRTH CERTIFICATE IS TO BE ESTABLISHED UNDER THIS SECTION, AND THE
DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH HAVE NOT BEEN DETERMINED IN THE ADOPTION OR
PATERNITY PROCEEDINGS:

(1)      A DELAYED CERTIFICATE OF BIRTH SHALL BE FILED WITH THE
SECRETARY AS PROVIDED IN § 4-210 OF THIS SUBTITLE BEFORE A NEW CERTIFICATE
OF BIRTH IS ESTABLISHED; AND

(2)      THE NEW BIRTH CERTIFICATE SHALL BE PREPARED ON THE
DELAYED BIRTH CERTIFICATE FORM.

(I) (1) THE SECRETARY SHALL, UPON REQUEST, PREPARE AND REGISTER
A CERTIFICATE IN THIS STATE FOR A PERSON BORN IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY WHO IS
NOT A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES AND WHO WAS ADOPTED THROUGH A
COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION IN THIS STATE.

(2)      THE CERTIFICATE SHALL BE ESTABLISHED UPON RECEIPT OF A
CERTIFICATE OF ADOPTION FROM THE COURT DECREEING THE ADOPTION, PROOF
OF THE DATE AND PLACE OF THE CHILD'S BIRTH, AND A REQUEST FROM THE
COURT, THE ADOPTING PARENTS, OR THE ADOPTED PERSON IF 18 YEARS OF AGE OR
OVER THAT THE CERTIFICATE BE PREPARED.

(3)      THE CERTIFICATE SHALL BE LABELED "CERTIFICATE OF FOREIGN
BIRTH" AND SHALL SHOW THE ACTUAL COUNTRY OF BIRTH.

(4)      A STATEMENT SHALL ALSO BE INCLUDED ON THE CERTIFICATE
INDICATING THAT IT IS NOT EVIDENCE OF UNITED STATES CITIZENSHIP FOR THE
CHILD FOR WHOM IT IS ISSUED.

4-212.

(a)     This section does not apply to a fetal death.

(b)     (1) A certificate of death REGARDLESS OF AGE OF DECEDENT shall be
filled out and signed by:

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