§ 7310. Duties of department.
(a) Designation.--The department is the State information agency under this part.
(b) Duties.--The department shall do all of the following:
(1) Compile and maintain a current list, including addresses, of the tribunals in this State which have jurisdiction under this part and any support enforcement agencies in this State and transmit a copy to the state information agency of every other state.
(2) Maintain a register of tribunals and support enforcement agencies received from other states.
(3) Forward to the appropriate tribunal in the place in this State in which the individual obligee or the obligor resides, or in which the obligor's property is believed to be located, documents concerning a proceeding under this part received from an initiating tribunal or the state information agency of the initiating state.
(4) Obtain information concerning the location of the obligor and the obligor's property within this State not exempt from execution by such means as postal verification; Federal or State locator services; examination of telephone directories; requests for the obligor's address from employers; and examination of governmental records, including, to the extent not prohibited by other law, those relating to real property, vital statistics, law enforcement, taxation, motor vehicles, driver's licenses and Social Security.
(5) Transmit to another state, electronically or by another method, a request for assistance in a case involving enforcement of a support order containing sufficient information to enable the state to which the request is transmitted to compare the transmitted information to the information of that state. The transmittal shall constitute a certification of arrears and that the state has complied with all procedural due process requirements applicable to the case.
(6) A response to a request for assistance received from another state under this part must be completed by the responding Commonwealth tribunal. The response, which may be transmitted electronically or by other methods, shall confirm the receipt of the request, action taken, amount of support collected and any additional information or action required by the requesting tribunal to obtain enforcement of the child support obligation.
(Dec. 16, 1997, P.L.549, No.58, eff. Jan. 1, 1998)
1997 Amendment. Act 58 amended subsec. (b). Act 58 of 1997 was suspended by Pennsylvania Rule of Civil Procedure No. 1910.50(3), as amended May 31, 2000, insofar as it is inconsistent with Rule No. 1910.20 relating to the availability of remedies for collection of past due and overdue support.
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