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Iowa Code § 144.18

Court hearing

Iowa · Iowa Code Chapter 144 — Vital Statistics · Status: effective

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Iowa Code § 144.18, Court hearing, Iowa, version 1 as recorded 2026-10-03, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/2225602
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1. The court shall fix a time and place for hearing the petition and shall give the registration official who refused to register the petitioner’s delayed certificate of birth at least ten days’ notice of such hearing. If both persons to be named as parents are not a party to the petition, such person or persons, if living, shall also be given at least ten days’ notice of the hearing. The court shall prescribe the manner of such notice. Such official, or the official’s authorized representative, may appear and testify in the proceeding. 2. If the court from the evidence presented finds that the person for whom a delayed certificate of birth is sought was born in this state, it shall make findings as the case may require and shall issue an order on a form prescribed and furnished by the state registrar to establish a record of birth. The order shall include the birth data to be registered, a description of the evidence presented, and the date of the court’s action. 3. The clerks of the district court shall forward each order to the state registrar not later than the tenth day of the calendar month following the month in which it was entered. The order shall be registered by the state registrar and shall constitute the record of birth, from which copies may be issued in accordance with sections 144.42 through 144.46.