127.007 - State Register for Adoptions: Establishment; contents; release of information. - Nevada Statutes

127.007  State Register for Adoptions: Establishment; contents; release of information.

      1.  The Division shall maintain the State Register for Adoptions, which is hereby established, in its central office to provide information to identify adults who were adopted and persons related to them within the third degree of consanguinity.

      2.  The State Register for Adoptions consists of:

      (a) Names and other information, which the Administrator of the Division deems to be necessary for the operation of the Register, relating to persons who have released a child for adoption or have consented to the adoption of a child, or whose parental rights have been terminated by a court of competent jurisdiction, and who have submitted the information voluntarily to the Division;

      (b) Names and other necessary information of persons who are 18 years of age or older, who were adopted and who have submitted the information voluntarily to the Division; and

      (c) Names and other necessary information of persons who are related within the third degree of consanguinity to adopted persons, and who have submitted the information voluntarily to the Division.

Ê Any person whose name appears in the Register may withdraw it by requesting in writing that it be withdrawn. The Division shall immediately withdraw a name upon receiving a request to do so, and may not thereafter release any information to identify that person, including the information that such a name was ever in the Register.

      3.  Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4, the Division may release information:

      (a) About a person related within the third degree of consanguinity to an adopted person; or

      (b) About an adopted person to a person related within the third degree of consanguinity,

Ê if the names and information about both persons are contained in the Register and written consent for the release of such information is given by the natural parent.

      4.  An adopted person may, by submitting a written request to the Division, restrict the release of any information concerning himself or herself to one or more categories of relatives within the third degree of consanguinity.

      (Added to NRS by 1979, 1282; A 1991, 947; 1993, 37, 2679, 2729)