[ Text of section effective until July 31, 2008. Repealed by 2008, 215, Sec. 43.]
Section 11B. Each placement agency shall register with an adoption resource exchange in the commonwealth any child whose goal is adoption, whether the child is free for adoption or at legal risk, for whom the placement agency has been unable to identify a specific adoptive family or initiate the adoption process with a prospective adoptive family within 60 days of the determination of the goal of adoption. For the purposes of this section, adoption resource exchange shall mean a nonprofit agency the primary purpose of which is to link children awaiting placement with permanent families by providing information and referral services and by the recruitment of potential adoptive families.