New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 3A - CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
Chapter 23 - ADOPTIONS
CHAPTER SOURCE AND
EFFECTIVE DATE:
R.2019 d.069, effective May 23, 2019.
See: 51 N.J.R. 131(a), 51 N.J.R. 985(a).
CHAPTER HISTORICAL NOTE:
Chapter 121, Adoptions, was filed and became effective prior to
September 1, 1969.
Subchapter 3, Adoption Complaint Investigation
Fees, was adopted as R.1975 d.15, effective February 6, 1975. See: 7 N.J.R.
58(c).
Subchapter 4, Release of Criminal History Record
Information, was adopted as R.1979 d.119, effective March 19, 1979. See: 10
N.J.R. 543(a), 11 N.J.R. 248(a).
Pursuant to Executive Order No.
66(1978), Subchapter 3, Adoption Complaint Investigation Fees, was readopted as
R.1983 d.509, effective November 7, 1983. See: 15 N.J.R. 1341(a), 15 N.J.R.
1865(b).
Pursuant to Executive Order No. 66(1978), Subchapter 4,
Release of Criminal HISTORY Record Information, was readopted as R.1984 d.88,
effective March 13, 1984. See: 16 N.J.R. 119(b), 16 N.J.R. 730(a).
Pursuant to Executive Order No. 66(1978), Chapter 121, Adoptions, expired on
March 13, 1989.
Chapter 121, Adoptions, was adopted as new rules
by R.1990 d.344, effective July 16, 1990. See: 21 N.J.R. 3047(b), 22 N.J.R.
2172(a).
Pursuant to Executive Order No. 66(1978), Chapter 121,
Adoptions, was readopted as R.1995 d.360, effective June 12, 1995. See: 27
N.J.R. 1122(a), 27 N.J.R. 2616(a).
Pursuant to Executive Order No.
66(1978), Chapter 121, Adoptions, was readopted as R.2000 d.254, effective May
24, 2000. Subchapter 4, Release of Criminal History Record Information, was
repealed, and Subchapter 5, Medical Information Forms, was recodified as
Subchapter 4, Medical Information Form, by R.2000 d.254, effective June 19,
2000. See: 32 N.J.R. 741(a), 32 N.J.R. 2239(b).
Chapter 121,
Adoptions, was readopted as R.2005 d.439, effective November 18, 2005. As a
part of R.2005 d.439, former Subchapter 1, Approval of Agencies Desiring to
Place Children in New Jersey, was repealed; former Subchapter 2, Adoption
Subsidy, was recodified as Subchapter 1; former Subchapter 3, Adoption
Complaint Investigation Fees, was recodified as Subchapter 2; and former
Subchapter 4, Medical Information, was recodified as Subchapter 3, effective
December 19, 2005. See: 37 N.J.R. 1938(a), 37 N.J.R. 5001(b).
In
accordance with N.J.S.A. 52:14B-5.1b, Chapter 121, Adoptions, was scheduled to
expire on May 17, 2013. See: 43 N.J.R. 1203(a).
Chapter 121,
Adoptions, was readopted as R.2012 d.005, effective December 7, 2011. See: 42
N.J.R. 3030(a), 44 N.J.R. 83(b).
Chapter 23, Adoptions, was
recodified from N.J.A.C. 10:121, Adoptions, by administrative change, effective
January 3, 2017. As part of the recodification, attendant technical changes
were made to the rule text concerning cross-references, agency names,
addresses, etc. See: 49 N.J.R. 98(a).
Subchapter 2, Adoption
Complaint Investigation Fees, and Subchapter 3, Medical Information, were
repealed by R.2017 d.207, effective December 4, 2017. See: 49 N.J.R. 2316(a),
49 N.J.R. 3669(c).
Chapter 23, Adoptions, was readopted as R.2019
d.069, effective May 23, 2019. See: Source and Effective Date. See, also,
section annotations.
CHAPTER AUTHORITY:
N.J.S.A. 9:3-54.1, 9:3A-7.f, 30:4C-4(h), and 30:4C-49.