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BIRTH RECORDS OF MISSING CHILDREN -- STATE REGISTRAR'S DUTIES.
1. Upon notification by a law enforcement agency that a child born in the
state is missing or has run away, the state registrar shall flag the child's
birth certificate record in such a manner that whenever a copy of the birth
certificate or information concerning the birth record is requested, the state
director shall be alerted to the fact that the certificate is that of a
missing or runaway child.
2. In response to any inquiry, the state registrar or any clerk appointed
by him or any employee of vital statistics shall not provide a copy of a birth
certificate or information concerning the birth record of any missing or
runaway child whose birth record has been flagged pursuant to this section,
and shall immediately notify the law enforcement agency having jurisdiction
over the investigation of the missing or runaway child. Inquiries shall be
handled in the following manner:
(a) When a copy of the birth certificate of a missing or runaway child
whose record has been flagged is requested in person, the employee
receiving the request shall immediately notify his supervisor or the state
registrar. The person making the request shall complete a form supplying
his name, address, telephone number and relationship to the missing or
runaway child and the name, address and birth date of the missing or
runaway child. The driver's license of the person making the request, if
available, shall be photocopied and returned to him. He shall be informed
that the birth certificate will be mailed to him when it is released. The
employee shall note the physical description of the person making the
request, and, upon that person's departure from the vital statistics
office, the supervisor or state registrar shall immediately notify the law
enforcement agency having jurisdiction of the request and provide it with
the information obtained pursuant to subsection 2(a) of this section. The
state registrar shall retain the form completed by the person making the
request.
(b) When a copy of the birth certificate of a missing or runaway child
whose birth record has been flagged is requested in writing, the state
registrar shall immediately notify the law enforcement agency having
jurisdiction of the request and shall provide a copy of the written
request. The state registrar shall retain the original written request.
3. Upon notification by a law enforcement agency that a missing or
runaway child has been returned or when the child reaches his eighteenth
birthday, the state registrar shall remove the flag from the child's birth
record.

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