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Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 63
Adoption
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Section 63.152, Florida Statutes 2000

63.152  Application for new birth record.--Within 30 days after entry of a judgment of adoption, the clerk of the court, and in agency adoptions, any child-placing agency licensed by the department, shall prepare a certified statement of the entry for the state registrar of vital statistics on a form provided by the registrar. A new birth record containing the necessary information supplied by the certificate shall be issued by the registrar on application of the adopting parents or the adopted person.

History.--s. 15, ch. 73-159; s. 5, ch. 90-309.