(a) If you cease operating, you must transfer adoption
records to:
(1) The Department of State Health Services, Bureau
of Vital Statistics, and provide written notification to Licensing
of the transfer; or
(2) Another licensed child-placing agency. If you transfer
your records to another child-placing agency, you must inform the
Bureau of Vital Statistics, in writing, of the closing and of the
location of the adoption records. You must send a copy of the letter
you send to the Bureau of Vital Statistics to the local Licensing
office.
(b) You must transfer the records within the time frame
specified by the Bureau of Vital Statistics.
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Source Note: The provisions of this §749.587 adopted to be effective January 1, 2007, 31 TexReg 7469; amended to be effective September 1, 2010, 35 TexReg 7522; transferred effective March 9, 2018, as published in the Texas Register February 16, 2018, 43 TexReg 909 |