Effective: March 22, 2001
Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 180 - 123rd General Assembly
(A) If the natural mother and alleged father of a child sign an acknowledgment of paternity affidavit prepared pursuant to section 3111.31 of the Revised Code with respect to that child at the office of the local registrar, the local registrar shall provide a notary public to notarize the acknowledgment. The local registrar shall send a signed and notarized acknowledgment of paternity to the office of child support in the department of job and family services pursuant to section 3111.22 of the Revised Code. The local registrar shall send the acknowledgment no later than ten days after it has been signed and notarized. If the local registrar knows a man is presumed under section 3111.03 of the Revised Code to be the father of the child and that the presumed father is not the man who signed or is attempting to sign an acknowledgment with respect to the child, the local registrar shall not notarize or send the acknowledgment pursuant to this section.
(B) The local registrar of vital statistics shall provide an acknowledgment of paternity affidavit described in division (A) of this section to any person that requests it.
(C) The department of health shall store all acknowledgments of paternity affidavits it receives pursuant to section 3111.24 of the Revised Code. The department of health shall send to the office any acknowledgment the department is storing that the office requests. The department of health shall adopt rules pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to govern the method of storage of the acknowledgments and to implement this section.
(D) The department of health and the department of job and family services shall enter into an agreement regarding expenses incurred by the department of health in comparing acknowledgment of paternity affidavits to birth records and storage of acknowledgment of paternity affidavits.
Structure Ohio Revised Code
Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals
Chapter 3705 | Vital Statistics
Section 3705.01 | Vital Statistics Definitions.
Section 3705.02 | Statewide System of Vital Statistics - Office of Vital Statistics.
Section 3705.03 | State Registrar Is Head of Office of Vital Statistics - Powers and Duties.
Section 3705.04 | Registration Districts.
Section 3705.05 | Local Registrars - Deputy Registrar - Records.
Section 3705.06 | Local Registrar to Supply Forms of Certificates.
Section 3705.07 | Keeping and Transmitting Records by Local Registrar.
Section 3705.071 | Copy of Death Certificate of Child to Be Sent to County of Residence.
Section 3705.08 | Director Shall Prescribe Forms.
Section 3705.09 | Filing and Registration of Birth Certificate.
Section 3705.091 | Acknowledgment of Paternity Affidavits.
Section 3705.10 | Delayed Birth Certificate.
Section 3705.11 | Report of Foundling Child.
Section 3705.121 | Adoption Decreed in Out-of-State Court.
Section 3705.122 | Foreign Birth Record.
Section 3705.123 | Records for Adoptions Decreed Before 1/1/1964.
Section 3705.124 | Application for New Birth Record.
Section 3705.125 | Prima Facie Evidence.
Section 3705.126 | Confidentiality.
Section 3705.13 | Filing Court Order of Change of Name - New Birth Certificate.
Section 3705.14 | Supplemental Report for Given Name.
Section 3705.15 | Registration of Unrecorded Birth - Correction of Birth Record.
Section 3705.16 | Statement of Facts in Certificates - Death Certificate.
Section 3705.17 | Burial Permit Required - Records to Be Kept.
Section 3705.18 | Authorization for Final Disposition of Body Transported Into State.
Section 3705.19 | Death Certificate to State Whether Deceased Served in the Armed Forces.
Section 3705.20 | Fetal Death Certificate.
Section 3705.22 | Birth Certificate to Be Amended to Correct Errors.
Section 3705.23 | Copies of Vital Records.
Section 3705.231 | Copy of Birth Record.
Section 3705.24 | Fees - Annual Certification by Director of Health to County Treasurers.
Section 3705.241 | Fee for Copy of Adoption File - Adoption Records Fund.
Section 3705.242 | Fee for Copy of Birth or Death Records - Divorce Decree Filing Fee.
Section 3705.26 | Demand for Information by State Registrar.
Section 3705.27 | Matching of Birth and Death Records to Protect Integrity of Vital Records.
Section 3705.28 | Prior Records Valid.
Section 3705.29 | Prohibited Acts.
Section 3705.30 | Statewide Birth Defects Information System.
Section 3705.31 | Purposes of System.
Section 3705.32 | Records Are Confidential - Exceptions.
Section 3705.36 | Annual Report Regarding System.
Section 3705.40 | Access to Preliminary Birth and Death Data Maintained by Department.