Section 5-4 - C-01. Definitions. - Maryland Statutes

§ 5-4C-01. Definitions.
 

(a)  In general.- In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated. 

(b)  Administration.- "Administration" means the Social Services Administration of the Department. 

(c)  Adoptee.- "Adoptee" means an individual: 

(1) who was adopted in this State; or 

(2) who was placed for adoption by: 

(i) a child placement agency licensed in this State; or 

(ii) a local department. 

(d)  Director.- "Director" means the Director of the Administration. 

(e)  Identifying information.- "Identifying information" means information that reveals the identity or location of an adoptee, the natural parents of an adoptee, or a natural sibling. 

(f)  Local department.- Repealed by Acts 2005, ch. 464, § 2, effective January 1, 2006. 

(g)  Natural father.- "Natural father" means a man who: 

(1) was married to the adoptee's natural mother at the time of conception; 

(2) was married to the adoptee's natural mother at the time of the adoptee's birth; 

(3) was named as the father on the adoptee's pre-adoption birth certificate, unless the man has signed a denial of paternity or his nonpaternity has been determined by a court; 

(4) was identified by the natural mother as the father of the adoptee, unless the man has signed a denial of paternity or his nonpaternity has been determined by a court; 

(5) has been adjudicated to be the father of the adoptee; or 

(6) has acknowledged himself orally or in writing to be the father of the adoptee. 

(h)  Natural sibling.- "Natural sibling" means an individual who is at least 21 years old and shares 1 or both natural parents with an adoptee. 

(i)  Registry.- "Registry" means the Mutual Consent Voluntary Adoption Registry. 
 

[1986, ch. 711; 1999, ch. 320, § 1; 2004, ch. 25, § 6; 2005, ch. 464, § 2.]