AGENCY: Office of Vital Records and Statistics

SERIES: 28666
TITLE: Acknowledgment of paternity registry
DATES: 1970-
ARRANGEMENT: Numerical by registry number.

DESCRIPTION: These records support the agency's function to document and certify the facts of births and family formations. Records document a man's potential paternity and legal right to be notified if an adoption commences. Records are used to acknowledge and determine legal parental rights for custody of the child (78B-15-402(2008)). Information includes identifiable information for the birth father and mother, facts of birth as known, notarized signature of the birth father, and other information as stated in Utah Code 78B-15-404(2008).

RETENTION

Permanent. Retain for 100 year(s)

DISPOSITION

Transfer to Archives.

RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION

Retention and disposition for this series is authorized by Archives general schedule Vital records, GRS-285

AUTHORIZED: 07/23/2018

FORMAT MANAGEMENT

Paper: Retain in Office until scanned and then transfer to State Records Center. Retain in State Records Center for 100 years and then transfer to State Archives with authority to weed.

Computer data files: Retain in Office permanently.

APPRAISAL

Administrative Historical Legal

As a vital record this information is of historical value and may provide legal evidence of a birth father's parental rights (Utah Code 78B-15-402(2008)).

PRIMARY DESIGNATION

Exempt. Utah Code 78B-15-405(2008)

SECONDARY DESIGNATION

Private. Utah Code 63G-3-302(2)(d)(2014)