CHAPTER 260

An Act to amend and reenact § 82-858 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to the issuance of birth certificates upon court order establishing date
and place of birth.

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CHS. 260, 261] ACTS OF ASSEMBLY 297

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

- That § 32-353 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
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§ 32-353. Any person born in this State * as to the date and place of
whose birth there is no record in the office of the State Registrar of Vital
Statistics and who cannot produce evidence to the satisfaction of the Reg-
istrar as to the date and place of his birth and such other information as
the Registrar requires to record the birth, may have the date and place of
his birth established by any court of record of the county or city in which
he resides or in which his birth occurred, upon satisfactory proof thereof
before such court or the judge thereof in vacation; upon such proof the
court or judge shall, by an order entered of récord in the common law
order book of the court, set forth the date and place of the person’s birth
as so proven, together with the names of his parents and the sex, height,
weight, color of hair and eyes, and any distinguishing physical mark or
characteristic of such person. No petition filed under this section shall be
entertained by any court unless such petition is accompanied by a cer-
tificate of the State Registrar of Vital Statistics stating that there is no
record as to the date and place of petitioner’s birth in the office of the
Registrar and that the petitioner has failed to produce evidence satisfac-
tory to the Registrar required to record petitioner’s birth.

Upon the entering of the order, the clerk of the court shall promptly
transmit a certified copy to the State Registrar of Vital Statistics, who
shall record it in his office, and from which record so made, the Registrar
shall issue a birth certificate to the person the date and place of whose
birth is established by the order, setting forth in the certificate the source
of the information upon which the certificate is issued.