Effective: March 20, 2015
Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 23 - 130th General Assembly
(A) The department of health shall issue a foreign birth record as follows:
(1) On receipt of the items sent by a probate court pursuant to section 3107.19 of the Revised Code concerning the adoption of a person born in a foreign country, unless the adoptive parents or adopted person over eighteen years of age requests that such record not be issued;
(2) On receipt of an order issued under section 3107.18 of the Revised Code.
(B) A foreign birth record shall be the same in all respects as a birth record issued under section 3705.12 of the Revised Code, except that it shall show the actual country of birth. After registration of the birth record in the new name of the adopted person, the department shall place the items sent by the probate court in an adoption file and seal the file. The contents of the adoption file are not a public record and shall be made available only in accordance with section 3705.126 of the Revised Code.
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.