NRS127.057. Consent to adoption: Copy to be furnished to agency which provides child welfare services within 48 hours; recommendations; confidentiality of information; unlawful acts.

      1.  Any person to whom a consent to adoption executed in this State or executed outside this State for use in this State is delivered shall, within 48 hours after receipt of the executed consent to adoption, furnish a true copy of the consent, together with a report of the permanent address of the person in whose favor the consent was executed to the agency which provides child welfare services.

      2.  Any person recommending in his or her professional or occupational capacity, the placement of a child for adoption in this State shall immediately notify the agency which provides child welfare services of the impending adoption.

      3.  Except as otherwise provided in NRS 239.0115, all information received by the agency which provides child welfare services pursuant to the provisions of this section is confidential and must be protected from disclosure in the same manner that information is protected under NRS 432.035.

      4.  Any person who violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor.

      (Added to NRS by 1961, 737; A 1963, 890; 1967, 1147; 1973, 1406, 1588; 1987, 2050; 1993, 2681; 2001 Special Session, 4; 2007, 2074)