(a) Each child legally free for adoption, for whom the photo-listing service may recruit an adoptive family under subsection (a) of section 17a-42, shall, and any other such legally free child may, be registered with the photo-listing service within ten working days of becoming a child for whom such service may recruit an adoptive family. Each such registration shall include a recent photograph and written description of the child. Each such registration shall be reported to the court that ordered termination of parental rights.
(b) All changes in the status of a registered child shall be reported by the child care or child-placing agency to the photo-listing service within five working days after such change has occurred.
(c) Children remaining registered for a period in excess of twelve months shall have their photograph and written description updated within fifteen working days of the expiration of the twelfth month of their registration and every twelve months thereafter.
(d) A child's registration shall be withdrawn when the photo-listing service has been notified in writing that the child has been adopted, has reached his or her fourteenth birthday and will not consent to an adoption plan or has died.
(P.A. 77-379, S. 2; P.A. 00-137, S. 7.)
History: Sec. 17-444a transferred to Sec. 17a-43 in 1991; P.A. 00-137 amended Subsec. (a) to provide that each registration shall be reported to the court that ordered termination of parental rights.
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