Colorado § 19-5-403 - Authority for department to select agencies.
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§ 19-5-403. Authority for department to select agencies.
The department is authorized to select private, licensed child placement agencies authorized to handle adoptions for the disclosure of nonidentifying information pursuant to this part 4. The department shall, by rule, establish qualifying criteria by which the licensed child placement agencies authorized to handle adoptions shall be selected, which criteria shall include, but shall not be limited to, a requirement that the agencies maintain all information which identifies members of the birth family strictly confidential.
Source: L. 93: Entire part added, p. 656, § 1, effective July 1.
19-5.5 ARTICLE 5.5
Uniform Unregulated Child Custody Transfer Act
PART 1
GENERAL PROVISIONS
19-5.5-101. Short title.
19-5.5-102. Definitions.
19-5.5-103. Limitations on applicability.
PART 2
PROHIBITION OF UNREGULATED CUSTODY TRANSFER
19-5.5-201. Definitions.
19-5.5-202. Applicability.
19-5.5-203. Prohibited custody transfer.
19-5.5-204. Authority and responsibility of a county department of human or social services.
19-5.5-205. Prohibited soliciting or advertising.
19-5.5-206. Enforcement.
PART 3
INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE
19-5.5-301. Definitions.
19-5.5-302. Scope.
19-5.5-303. General adoption information.
19-5.5-304. Information about child.
19-5.5-305. Guidance and instruction.
19-5.5-306. Information about adoption assistance and resources.
19-5.5-307. Child placement agency compliance.
19-5.5-308. Rulemaking authority.
PART 4
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
19-5.5-401. Uniformity of application and construction.
19-5.5-402. Relation to electronic signatures in global and national commerce act.
19-5.5-403. Transitional provisions.
PART 1
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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