[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 15, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 15CFR80.1]

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                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE
 
         CHAPTER I--BUREAU OF THE CENSUS, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
 
PART 80--FURNISHING PERSONAL CENSUS DATA FROM CENSUS OF POPULATION SCHEDULES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 80.1  General requirements.

    (a) Data from records of decennial census of population 
questionnaires pertaining to an individual will be released only in 
accordance with these rules.
    (b) Census information contains only the responses recorded by the 
Census enumerator; no changes of any of these entries have been or can 
be made.
    (c) Requests for information from decennial census of population 
records (herein ``Census information'') should be made on Form BC-600, 
which is available from offices of the Bureau of the Census at Suitland, 
Maryland 20233 and Pittsburg, Kansas 66762, all county courthouses, 
Social Security field offices, and Immigration and Naturalization 
Service offices. A letter request--without Form BC-600--will be accepted 
only if it contains the information necessary to complete a Form BC-600. 
No application will be processed without payment of the required fee as 
set forth in 15 CFR 50.5.
    (d) The Bureau may require verification of the identity of the 
applicant requesting Census information and it may require the applicant 
to submit the following notarized statement:

    I, ____________________ (Printed name), do hereby certify that I am 
the individual to whom the requested record pertains or that I am within 
the class of persons authorized to act on his behalf in accordance with 
15 CFR, Part 80.
  (Signature)___________________________________________________________

                                              (Date)____________________
In the County of________________________________________________________
State of________________________________________________________________
On this ______ day of ________, 19____, ____________________ (Name of 
individual) who is personally known to me, did appear before me and sign 
the above certificate.
  (Signature)___________________________________________________________

                                              (Date)____________________
(S) My commission expires_______________________________________________

    (e) Except as otherwise provided, Census information will be 
provided only to the individual to whom the record pertains. It will 
include the names of the subject and the head of the household, the 
relationship of the

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subject to the head of the household, and the subject's age and 
birthplace.
    (f) Similar Census information pertaining to other members of a 
household will be furnished only upon written authorization of the 
individual whose record is requested, except as provided in Sec. 80.3.
    (g) Census information may be provided to others only upon signed 
request by an individual entitled to receive the information which 
indicates the person and address to which the information is to be sent.

(Approved by the Office of Management and Budget under control number 
0607-0117)

[40 FR 53232, Nov. 17, 1975, as amended at 48 FR 56744, Dec. 23, 1983]