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Special provisions for Philadelphia County - 20 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 713

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     § 713.  Special provisions for Philadelphia County.
        The provisions of section 711 (relating to mandatory exercise
     of jurisdiction through orphans' court division in general),
     insofar as they relate to adoptions and birth records, shall not
     apply to Philadelphia County. In Philadelphia County the
     jurisdiction over adoptions and all proceedings which may be
     necessary to be presented to a court for determination with
     regard to issues concerning recordation of birth and birth
     records or the alteration, amendment or modification of such
     birth records or the right to obtain a certified copy of the
     same, shall be exercised through the family court division of
     the court of common pleas. Whenever a resident of Philadelphia
     is entitled to take an appeal from the action of the Department
     of Health in connection with any matters concerning birth
     records, the appeal shall be taken to the family court division
     of the court of common pleas of Philadelphia. In all other
     matters in which a petition is addressed to a court by a
     resident of Philadelphia in connection with matters of birth
     records, the filing of which petition is not in the nature of an
     appeal but is an original proceeding, the petition shall be
     determined by the family court division of the court of common
     pleas of Philadelphia.

        Cross References.  Section 713 is referred to in section 711
     of this title; section 933 of Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial
     Procedure).

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