Sec. 12b.
(1) The office of child support of the state department of human services is designated as the state information agency and the interstate central registry under this act, and it shall do all of the following:
(a) Distribute copies of any amendments to the act and a statement of their effective date to all other state information agencies.
(b) Maintain a list of each interstate central registry in the United States and its address, and provide the list to every prosecutor's office, every attorney employed or contracted under section 10a(2), and every office of the friend of the court in this state.
(c) Maintain a supply of duplicated copies of this act, as amended, for the use of court officers in preparing cases to be forwarded to responding states.
(d) Act generally as a clearing center for information and maintain general liaison with the council of state governments, law enforcement agencies, the legislature, other governmental or private agencies concerned with this act, and the public.
(e) Forward to the court in this state that has proper venue, as determined under section 10, the petitions, certificates, and copies of the act it receives from courts or information agencies of other states.
(2) If the state information agency does not know the location of the obligor or the obligor's property, the agency shall use its state locator service to obtain this information.
History: Add. 1953, Act 202, Eff. Oct. 2, 1953 ;-- Am. 1957, Act 147, Eff. Sept. 27, 1957 ;-- Am. 1959, Act 191, Eff. Mar. 19, 1960 ;-- Am. 1985, Act 172, Eff. Mar. 1, 1986 ;-- Am. 1990, Act 241, Imd. Eff. Oct. 10, 1990 ;-- Am. 2014, Act 371, Eff. Mar. 17, 2015
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