Connecticut General Statutes 7-48a – Filing of original certificate of birth. Surrogacy agreement: Replacement certificate of birth
(a) Each original certificate of birth shall be filed with the name of the birth parent recorded.
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 7-48a
- Certified copy: means a copy of a birth, death, fetal death or marriage certificate that (A) includes all information on the certificate except such information that is nondisclosable by law, (B) is issued or transmitted by any registrar of vital statistics, (C) includes an attested signature and the raised seal of an authorized person, and (D) if submitted to the department, includes all information required by the commissioner. See Connecticut General Statutes 7-36
- Department: means the Department of Public Health. See Connecticut General Statutes 7-36
- Intended parent: means a person, married or unmarried, who manifests an intent to be legally bound as a parent of a child conceived by assisted reproduction. See Connecticut General Statutes 7-36
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Parentage: includes matters relating to adoption, surrogacy agreements, paternity and maternity. See Connecticut General Statutes 7-36
- registrar: means the registrar of births, marriages, deaths and fetal deaths or any public official charged with the care of returns relating to vital statistics. See Connecticut General Statutes 7-36
- surrogacy agreement: includes an agreement with a person acting as a gestational surrogate and an agreement with a person acting as a genetic surrogate. See Connecticut General Statutes 7-36
(b) If the birth is subject to a surrogacy agreement, the Department of Public Health shall create a replacement certificate of birth immediately upon: (1) Receipt of a certified copy of an order of a court of competent jurisdiction issuing an order of parentage pursuant to such surrogacy agreement, if such order is received by the department after the birth of the child, or (2) the filing of an original certificate of birth, if such order is received by the department prior to the birth of the child. The department shall prepare the replacement certificate of birth for the child born of the agreement in accordance with such order. The replacement certificate of birth shall include all information required to be included in a certificate of birth of this state as of the date of the birth, except that the intended parent or parents under the surrogacy agreement shall be named as the parent or parents of the child. When a certified copy of a certificate of birth is requested by an eligible party, as provided in section 7-51, for which a replacement certificate of birth has been created pursuant to this subsection, a copy of the replacement certificate of birth shall be provided. The department shall seal the original certificate of birth in accordance with the provisions of subsection (c) of section 19a-42.
(c) Immediately after a replacement certificate of birth has been prepared, the department shall transmit an exact copy of such certificate to the registrar of vital statistics of the town of birth and to any other registrar as the department deems appropriate. Such registrar shall proceed in accordance with the provisions of section 19a-42.