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As of Register 204 (January 2013), and under AS 44.62.125(b)(6), the regulations attorney made technical corrections to 7 AAC 54.510. Effective July 1, 2022, Executive Order 121 split the former Department of Health and Social Services into the Department of Health and the Department of Family and Community Services. As of Register 242 (July 2022), the regulations attorney made conforming technical revisions under sec. 138, E.O. 121 and AS 44.62.125(b)(6), to the authority citation that follows 7 AAC 54.510 to substitute references to AS 47.06.010 and 47.06.080 for the former references to AS 47.05.010 and 47.05.050. 7 AAC 54.600. Adoption of children subject to the Indian Child Welfare Act. For Indian children subject to 25 U.S.C. 1901 — 1963 (Indian Child Welfare Act) who are in the custody of the state where the department’s permanency goal for the child is adoption, the department will consider the following to constitute a proxy for a formal petition for adoption:

(1) the request of a relative, tribal member, or other Indian family interested in immediate placement and adoption of a child at any court hearing in the child in need of aid matter;

(2) the request of a relative, tribal member, or other Indian family interested in immediate placement and adoption of a child, conveyed to the department by telephone, by mail, by facsimile transmission, by electronic mail, or in person; or

(3) the request by the child’s tribe or tribe in which the child is eligible for enrollment to the department on behalf of a relative or tribal member who the tribe has confirmed is requesting immediate placement and adoption of a child. (Eff. 4/15/2015, Register 214) Statutory Authority: Authority: AS 47.06.025 AS 47.10.088

AS 47.10.080 AS 47.14.010 Editor’s note: As of Register 204 (January 2013), and under AS 44.62.125(b)(6), the regulations attorney made technical corrections to 7 AAC 54.510. The adoption of 7 AAC 54.600 took effect on April 15, 2015, as an emergency regulation, and the regulation was first published in Register 214 (July 2015). In reviewing the permanent regulations in accordance with AS 44.62.060 and 44.62.125(b), the regulations attorney made technical changes to 7 AAC 54.600. Those technical changes appeared in the permanent regulation as published in Register