Alaska Administrative Code
Title 7 - Health and Social Services
Part 4 - Children's Services and Juvenile Justice
Chapter 54 - Administration
Article 4 - Review and Evidentiary Hearing Regarding Foster Care, Adoption Subsidy, or Guardianship Subsidy Payment
7 AAC 54.600 - Adoption of Children subject to the Indian Child Welfare Act
Current through August 30, 2024
For Indian children subject to 25 U.S.C. 1901 - 1963 (Indian Child Welfare Act) who are in the custody of the state where the department's permanency goal for the child is adoption, the department will consider the following to constitute a proxy for a formal petition for adoption:
(1) the request of a relative, tribal member or other Indian family interested in immediate placement and adoption of a child at any court hearing in the child in need of aid matter;
(2) the request of a relative, tribal member or other Indian family interested in immediate placement and adoption of a child, conveyed to the department by telephone, by mail, by facsimile transmission, by electronic mail, or in person; or
(3) the request by the child's tribe or tribe in which the child is eligible for enrollment to the department on behalf of a relative or tribal member who the tribe has confirmed is requesting immediate placement and adoption of a child.
The adoption of 7 AAC 54.600 took effect on April 15, 2015, as an emergency regulation, and the regulation was first published in Register 214 (July 2015). In reviewing the permanent regulations in accordance with AS 44.62.060 and 44.62.125(b), the regulations attorney made technical changes to 7 AAC 54.600. Those technical changes appeared in the permanent regulation as published in Register 215 (October 215). The history note for 7 AAC 54.600 does not reflect the changes made by the regulations attorney.
Authority:AS 47.05.065
AS 47.10.080
AS 47.10.088
AS 47.14.010
