(a) When the whereabouts of one or more parents of a child in the Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services' managing conservatorship is unknown, Child Protective Services must make a diligent search for:
  (1) each missing parent.
  (2) a parent, a grandparent, or any adult sibling or child of each missing parent.
(b) In cases filed after September 1, 1997, where a child has one or more alleged biological fathers whose identity is unknown or whose identity is known but whose whereabouts is unknown, a request to search the Paternity Registry (a division of the Texas Department of Health's Bureau of Vital Statistics) must be completed, in addition to a diligent search for each alleged biological father.

Source Note: The provisions of this §700.1105 adopted to be effective May 15, 1992, 17 TexReg 2783; transferred effective September 1, 1992, as published in the Texas Register September 11, 1992, 17 TexReg 6279; amended to be effective January 1, 1998, 22 TexReg 12547.