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The Department shall furnish a document listing all post-adoption services available to adoptive families to the State Registrar of Vital Records for distribution to adoptive parents pursuant to \u00a7 32.1-261.\n\t\tThe Department of Social Services shall update annually and make available on its website the document listing all post-adoption services available to adoptive families pursuant to this section.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":212357,"text":"For the purpose of securing a new birth certificate for a child adopted pursuant to the laws of the Commonwealth, the procedures set forth in \u00a7 32.1-262 shall be followed. 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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 672 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1970 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 5 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 2000, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?001+ful+CHAP0830\">830<\/a>; in 2002, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?021+ful+CHAP0747\">747<\/a>; in 2003, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?031+ful+CHAP0985\">985<\/a>; in 2011, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?111+ful+CHAP0486\">486<\/a>; in 2015, chapters <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?151+ful+CHAP0005\">5<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?151+ful+CHAP0017\">17<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":79948,"section_number":"32.1-261","catch_line":"New certificate of birth established on proof of adoption, legitimation, or determination of paternity, or change of sex","order_by":null,"url":"\/32.1-261\/"}],"refers_to":[{"id":79948,"section_number":"32.1-261","catch_line":"New certificate of birth established on proof of adoption, legitimation, or determination of paternity, or change of sex","order_by":null,"url":"\/32.1-261\/"},{"id":66275,"section_number":"32.1-262","catch_line":"Records of adoptions","order_by":null,"url":"\/32.1-262\/"}],"permalink":{"id":271461,"object_type":"law","relational_id":57977,"identifier":"63.2-1220","token":"63.2\/III\/12\/1\/63.2-1220","url":"\/63.2-1220\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/63.2-1220\/","token":"63.2\/III\/12\/1\/63.2-1220","dublin_core":{"Title":"Issuance of birth certificates for children adopted in the Commonwealth","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 63.2-1220","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>For the purpose of securing a new birth certificate for a <span class=\"dictionary\">child<\/span> adopted pursuant to the <span class=\"dictionary\">laws<\/span> of the Commonwealth, the procedures set forth in \u00a7&nbsp;<a class=\"law\" title=\"Records of adoptions\" href=\"\/32.1-262\/\">32.1-262<\/a> shall be followed. The <span class=\"dictionary\">Department<\/span> shall furnish a document listing all post-adoption services available to adoptive families to the State Registrar of Vital Records for distribution to adoptive parents pursuant to \u00a7&nbsp;<a class=\"law\" title=\"New certificate of birth established on proof of adoption, legitimation, or determination of paternity, or change of sex\" href=\"\/32.1-261\/\">32.1-261<\/a>.\n\t\tThe <span class=\"dictionary\">Department<\/span> of <span class=\"dictionary\">Social Services<\/span> shall update annually and make available on its website the document listing all post-adoption services available to adoptive families pursuant to this section.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nISSUANCE OF BIRTH CERTIFICATES FOR CHILDREN ADOPTED IN THE COMMONWEALTH (\u00a7\n63.2-1220)\n\nFor the purpose of securing a new birth certificate for a child adopted pursuant\nto the laws of the Commonwealth, the procedures set forth in \u00a7 32.1-262 shall\nbe followed. The Department shall furnish a document listing all post-adoption\nservices available to adoptive families to the State Registrar of Vital Records\nfor distribution to adoptive parents pursuant to \u00a7 32.1-261.\n\t\tThe Department of Social Services shall update annually and make available on\nits website the document listing all post-adoption services available to\nadoptive families pursuant to this section.\n\nHISTORY: 1970, c. 672, \u00a7 63.1-221.1; 2000, c. 830, \u00a7 63.1-219.27; 2002, c.\n747; 2003, c. 985; 2011, c. 486; 2015, cc. 5, 17.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}