Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 41 - Birth Certificates: Filing Requirements and Access › Amendments and Corrections to Vital Records › Section 19a-41-9 - Amending or correcting birth records: Corrections within one month of filing birth certificate, legal name change, correcting obvious errors to registrant's name, adoptions, paternity, gender change

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) The
				local registrar of the town where a birth occurred or the Department shall
				amend a name on a birth certificate when the request for the amendment is
				accompanied by a certified copy of a court order granting the legal name
				change. The registrar or the Department shall place the new name on the birth
				certificate in accordance with the provisions of these regulations, and shall
				mark the birth certificate "Amended." The registrar or the Department shall
				record on the face of the certificate the original name of the person, the
				authority by which such legal name change was granted, and the date of the
				amendment.
(b) For up to 30 days
				following a registrant's birth, a parent may request that the registrant's name
				be changed to correct an obvious typographical or clerical error, by signing
				and presenting to the local registrar of the town in which the birth occurred,
				the Parent Notice issued by the birthing hospital. After said thirty-day
				period, a registrant, if over eighteen years old, or a custodial parent or
				legal guardian of the registrant, if the registrant is a minor, may request
				that the registrant's name be changed to correct or amend obvious typographical
				or clerical errors, by presenting two items of documentary evidence that were
				produced during the registrant's early childhood, from birth through age 7. The
				following documents are acceptable in their original form:
(1) Newspaper announcement of registrant's
				birth;
(2) Computer printout of
				registrant's application for a Social Security number;
(3) Early childhood insurance policy
				application;
(4) Early childhood
				savings bond;
(5) Federal
				census;
(6) Certified copy of a
				sibling's or parent's birth certificate (last name spelling correction
				only);
(7) Certified copy of
				parents' marriage certificate (last name spelling correction only);
(8) Official legal document showing mother's
				or father's last name, such as a passport, issued no later than the
				registrant's date of birth (last name spelling correction only);
(9) Letter from hospital where registrant was
				born verifying that a clerical error was made;
(10) Other documents as approved by the State
				Registrar of Vital Records.
If a record or document containing proof of the registrant's
				  correct name exists but the requester is unable to present the document in its
				  original form, a duly certified copy, or an attested copy signed by the
				  custodian of the record or document, may be submitted as proof of the
				  registrant's correct name. The document must have been produced during the
				  registrant's early childhood, from birth through age 7. This procedure may be
				  used to submit evidence from the following types of records:
(11) Early childhood baptismal
				record;
(12) Early childhood
				physician record;
(13) Early
				childhood hospital, clinic or nursery record;
(14) Application for day care or
				nursery;
(15) Early childhood
				elementary school record (kindergarten or 1st
				grade);
(16) Early childhood census
				record;
(17) Other documents as
				approved by the State Registrar of Vital Records.
A local registrar shall contact the Department to obtain
				  approval to accept a document for proof of evidence for any document not listed
				  in subdivision (1) through (16) of this section. The Department may grant
				  approval either verbally or in writing.