Ohio Code § 3705.124

§ 3705.124.

An adopted person whose birth occurred in this state, whose adoption was decreed before

January 1, 1964, who did not have a new or reissued birth record in the person's adopted

name prepared pursuant to division (C) or (D) of section 3705.12 of the Revised Code

as those divisions existed before March 19, 1985, and whose adoption is in full force

and effect, may apply to the department of health at any time for the preparation

of a new birth record in the person's adopted name.  On receipt of such an application, the department shall prepare a new birth record

in the person's name, in accordance with, and in the form described in, section 3705.12 of the Revised Code .  On preparation of the new birth record, the original birth record of the applicant

or the birth record issued in the adopted name of the applicant before January 1,

1964, that is being replaced, whichever is applicable, shall cease to be a public

record.  The department shall maintain the birth record that ceased to be a public record

and papers and documents that pertain to it or to the adoption of the applicant in

an adoption file.  The contents of the adoption file are not a public record and shall be made available

only in accordance with section 3705.126 of the Revised Code . The department promptly shall forward a copy of a new birth record in an applicant's

adopted name that is prepared under this section to the local registrar of vital statistics

of the district in which the applicant's birth occurred.  The local registrar shall file the copy along with, and in the same manner as, the

other copies of birth records in the registrar's possession.  All copies of the applicant's original birth record or the birth record issued in

the applicant's adopted name before January 1, 1964, that is being replaced, and all

other papers, documents, and index references pertaining to it that are in the possession

of the local registrar or a probate court shall be destroyed, except that the probate

court shall retain permanently in the file of adoption proceedings information that

is necessary to enable the court to identify both the applicant's original birth record

or birth record issued in the applicant's adopted name before January 1, 1964, that

is being replaced, and the new birth record in the applicant's adopted name that is

prepared pursuant to this section.