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(g) An agency providing intercountry adoption services shall do the following:

(1) provide all applicants with policies governing refunds when adoption services that have been promised are not rendered or when there is a disruption of services that may nullify an adoption;

(2) notify adoptive applicants within five working days whenever the agency receives information that a foreign country is suspending its adoption program;

(3) verify the credentials and qualifications of agents in foreign countries working in the agency’s behalf on adoption matters;

(4) disclose data to adoptive applicants on the agency’s rates of successful adoptions, such as the number of adoptions in the previous year, number of requests for adoption, and number of adoptions that disrupted within a year of placement;

(5) comply with ICPC, when appropriate. (Eff. 1/1/2001, Register 156) Statutory Authority: Authority: AS 44.30.020 AS 47.32.030 Editor’s note: 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 56.670 to substitute references to AS 44.30.020 and AS 47.32.030 for the references to AS 44.29.020 and AS 47.35.010. Article 8. Miscellaneous Provisions. Rule 7 AAC 56.990. Definitions 7 AAC 56.990. Definitions. In this chapter,

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