§846-32 Correction or alteration of records and certificates in cases of error or subsequent changes concerning names, citizenship, description, etc. (a) If, after registration, the name of any registrant is legally changed by marriage, divorce, adoption, legitimation, order of the lieutenant governor, or other legal means, or if there is a change in the registrant's citizenship, the registrant or other person in charge of the registrant (in the case of a minor or incompetent person), within thirty days after the change of name or citizenship, shall report the change and present the registrant's certificate of identification to the department of the attorney general. The department, upon being satisfied as to the change and receiving payment of the fee, shall cancel the certificate and issue a new certificate bearing the new name or citizenship of the registrant, making appropriate notation of the facts upon the records of the department.

(b) If any error has been made in any item of information contained in the records of the department or the certificate of identification concerning any registrant, the department, of its own motion, or upon application by the registrant, and upon receipt of satisfactory evidence that an error has been committed, with the approval of the attorney general or the attorney general's specially authorized representatives, may correct the error and, in such case, shall make appropriate changes or notations stating the error and the correct information upon the records of the department and the certificate of identification.

(c) In case any item of personal information originally correct with respect to any registrant shall change after registration, the change, if material, may be registered by the department and the records and certificate of identification may be altered to conform thereto, upon receipt by the department of satisfactory evidence as to the change and the approval of the attorney general or the attorney general's specially authorized representative. [L 1983, c 78, pt of §3(6); am L 1984, c 95, §13; am L 1993, c 249, §7]