Utah Code Title 78B. Judicial Code § 78B-6-121.5. Compact for Interstate Sharing of Putative Father Registry Information--Severability clause

(1) “Putative father” means a man who may be the biological father of a child because the man had a sexual relationship with a woman to whom he is not married.

(2) “Putative father registry” mean a registry of putative fathers maintained and used by a state as part of its legal process for protecting a putative father's rights.

(3) “State” includes a state, district, or territory of the United States.

(1) A state is a party to this compact upon enactment of this compact by the state into state law.

(2) Upon providing at least 60 days' notice of withdrawal from this compact to each party to the compact and repealing the compact from state law, a state is no longer party to this compact.

(3) This compact is amended upon enactment of the amendment into state law by each party to the compact.

(1) A party to this compact shall communicate information in its putative father registry about a specific putative father to any other party to this compact in a timely manner upon request by the other party.

(2) A party to this compact is not required to have a putative father registry in order to request putative father registry information from another party to the compact.

(3) Putative father registry information requested by a party to this compact from another party to this compact is subject to the laws of the requesting party governing the privacy, retention, and authorized uses of putative father information or, if the requesting party does not have a putative father registry, the laws of the party supplying the information governing the privacy, retention, and authorized uses of putative father information.

(4) Notwithstanding Article IV, Subsection (3) of this compact, the request for or receipt of putative father registry information by a party to this compact from another party to this compact does not affect the application of the requesting party's laws, including laws regarding adoption or the protection of a putative father's rights, except as explicitly provided by the requesting party's laws.

(5) Failure by a party to this compact to provide accurate putative father registry information in a timely manner to another party to this compact upon request does not affect application of the requesting party's laws, including laws governing adoption and the protection of a putative father's rights, except as explicitly provided by the requesting party's laws.

(6) Each party to this compact shall work with every other party to this compact to facilitate the timely communication of putative father registry information between compact parties upon request.

ARTICLE V

SEVERABILITY

The provisions of this compact are severable. If any provision of this compact or the application of any provision of this compact to any person or circumstance is held invalid by a final decision of a court of competent jurisdiction for a state that is a member of this compact, the remainder of this compact shall be given effect within that state without the invalid provision or application. If a provision of this compact is severed in one or more states as a result of one or more court decisions, the provision shall remain in force in all other states that are parties to this compact.