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(a) When it
appears from a final decree of adoption issued by an Idaho court that a person
born in a foreign country has been adopted in Idaho by someone other than the
person's natural parents, the court shall require the preparation of a report
(denominated as a certificate in accordance with Idaho court rules) of
adoption on a form prescribed and furnished by the state registrar. The report
shall contain evidence from sources determined to be reliable by the court as
to the true or probable date and place of birth and parentage of such person;
shall provide information necessary to establish a new certificate of birth
for the person adopted; and shall identify the order of adoption and be
certified by the clerk of the court. Upon receipt by the state registrar of
vital statistics of the report of adoption, the state registrar of vital
statistics shall make and file a new birth certificate for the child when
requested to do so by the court decreeing the adoption, the adoptive parents,
or the adopted person. The new birth certificate shall show the true or
probable foreign country (and city, town, village or other local designation,
if known) of birth and the true or probable date of birth as established by
the court and shown on the court report of adoption, the child's new name and
parentage as stated in the report of adoption, and any other necessary facts
as required by the state registrar. This birth certificate shall not be
evidence of United States citizenship. The form and content of the certificate
of foreign birth shall be established by the director.
(b) All records and information specified in this section other than a
new birth certificate issued hereunder, and all records, files and information
of any court in this state relating to adoption proceedings, shall not be open
to inspection except as provided in section 39-259A, Idaho Code, or upon the
order of a court of record of this state; provided however, that the
provisions of section 16-1616, Idaho Code, to the contrary notwithstanding,
any probate court, or the judge thereof, may furnish a certified copy of a
decree of adoption to any duly authorized agency of the United States or the
state of Idaho without procuring any prior court order therefor.
(c) The report of adoption shall, within fifteen (15) days after becoming
final, be recorded by the clerk of the court with the vital statistics unit in
the state department of health and welfare.
(d) Whenever an adoption decree is amended, annulled or rescinded, the
clerk of the court shall forward a certified copy of the amendment, annulment
or rescindment to the vital statistics unit in accordance with the time
provisions in subsection (c) of this section. Unless otherwise directed by the
court, the vital statistics unit shall amend the certificate of birth upon
receipt of a certified copy of an amended decree of adoption. Upon receipt of
a certified copy of a decree of annulment or rescindment of adoption, the
Idaho birth certificate shall be removed from the file and along with the
decree of annulment or rescindment shall be placed in the sealed file for that
person. Such sealed file shall not be subject to inspection except upon order
of a court of record of this state.

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