§338-20.5 Adoption; foreign born persons. (a) The department of health shall establish a Hawaii certificate of birth for a person born in a foreign country and for whom a final decree of adoption has been entered in a court of competent jurisdiction in Hawaii, when it receives the following:
(1) A properly certified copy of the adoption decree, or certified abstract thereof on a form approved by the department; and
(2) A copy of any investigatory report and recommendation which may have been prepared by the [director of human services]; and
(3) A report on a form to be approved by the department of health setting forth the following:
(A) Date of assumption of custody;
(B) Sex;
(C) Color or race;
(D) Approximate age of child;
(E) Name and address of the person or persons adopting said child;
(F) Name given to child by adoptive parent or parents;
(G) True or probable country of birth.
The true or probable country of birth shall be known as the place of birth, and the date of birth shall be determined by approximation. This report shall constitute an original certificate of birth; and
(4) A request that a new certificate of birth be established.
(b) After preparation of the new certificate of birth in the new name of the adopted person, the department of health shall seal and file the certified copy of the adoptive decree, the investigatory report and recommendation of the director of human services if any, the report constituting the original certificate of birth, and the request for a new certificate of birth. The sealed documents may be opened by the department only by an order of a court of record or when requested in accordance with section 578-14.5 or 578-15. The new certificate of birth shall show the true or probable foreign country of birth, and that the certificate is not evidence of United States citizenship for the child for whom it is issued or for the adoptive parents. [L 1979, c 203, §3; am L 1990, c 338, §3]
Structure Hawaii Revised Statutes
338-2 Authority and duties of the department of health.
338-4 Deaths reported to county clerks.
338-5 Compulsory registration of births.
338-6 Local agent to prepare birth certificate.
338-7 Registration of foundlings; foundling report.
338-8 Compulsory registration of deaths and fetal deaths.
338-9 Filing and preparation of death and fetal death certificates.
338-10 Late determination of the cause of death.
338-12 Evidentiary character of certificates.
338-14.3 Verification in lieu of a certified copy.
338-14.5 Copies of certificate; fees.
338-14.6 Vital statistics improvement special fund.
338-15 Late or altered certificates.
338-16 Procedure concerning late and altered birth certificates.
338-17 Late or altered certificate as evidence.
338-17.5 Judicial procedure to establish facts of birth.
338-17.7 Establishment of new certificates of birth, when.
338-17.8 Certificates for children born out of State.
338-19 Photostatic or typewritten copies of records.
338-20.5 Adoption; foreign born persons.
338-21 Children born to parents not married to each other.
338-22 Other persons required to make records.
338-23 Permit for removal, burial, or other disposition of body.
338-24 Foreign permit for removal, burial, or other disposition of body.
338-25 Prerequisite for permit.
338-25.5 Disinterment of human bodies.
338-28 Transmittal of certificates to department.
338-29.5 Late registration of death, fetal death, marriage, and divorce.
338-43 OLD REPEALED. §338-43 Perjury.