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Registration of children - 23 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 2553

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     § 2553.  Registration of children.
        (a)  Mandatory registration.--PACE shall register and be
     responsible for the review and referral of children for whom
     parental rights have been terminated for 90 days and for whom no
     report of intention to adopt has been filed in the court of
     common pleas.
        (b)  Optional registration.--PACE may also register children
     where restoration to the biological family is neither possible
     nor appropriate, a petition to terminate parental rights has
     been filed and adoption is planned pending identification of an
     adoptive parent or parents. However, information about these
     children shall not be publicized without prior approval by the
     department, which shall ensure the anonymity of these children
     until such time as parental rights are terminated.
        (c)  Children excluded from registration.--A child for whom
     termination of parental rights is being appealed in a court
     shall not be registered with PACE as available for adoption.
     Identifying information of such children shall be forwarded to
     PACE by the agency, with reference to the specific reason for
     which the child is not to be placed on the listing service.

        Cross References.  Section 2553 is referred to in section
     2555 of this title.

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