Date of birth may be established by any one of the following:

1. (1) an original birth certificate or a legible unaltered copy thereof;
2. (2) a delayed birth certificate in accordance with Texas Civil Statutes, Article 4477, Rule 51a, or a legible unaltered copy provided by the Bureau of Vital Statistics. Other copies are not acceptable. If birth occurred in the State of Texas, your application should be made to the county clerk of the county in which birth occurred. It is not necessary that the county now have any record of your birth;
3. (3) a delayed birth certificate issued by the state in which birth occurred or a legible unaltered copy provided by the registration agency is required;
4. (4) the original baptismal record or parish record wherein the age of the individual at the time of baptism is given, or a legible unaltered copy of such record;
5. (5) the family Bible record when properly abstracted or copied and accompanied by the prescribed affidavit forms issued by the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS);
6. (6) a report from the Bureau of Census, Pittsburgh, Kansas, stating the age of the individual at a census year when the individual was less than 20 years of age;
7. (7) a signed letter from the Social Security Administration indicating a date of birth which has been accepted by Social Security Administration;
8. (8) an affidavit made by a TRS employee from naturalization or citizenship papers;
9. (9) for a member, an original birth certificate or a legible unaltered copy thereof when there is no given name listed for the infant as long as it is consistent with other birth information in the TRS file;
10. (10) an alien registration card;
11. (11) a hospital birth record signed by the administrator or custodian of records of the hospital;
12. (12) in the event none of these is obtainable, such other evidence of age as may be approved by the executive secretary;
13. (13) if there is any question concerning a copy of the documents listed in this section, a certified copy may be required.

Source Note:The provisions of this §39.1 adopted to be effective January 1, 1976; amended to be effective July 6, 1981, 6 TexReg 2222; amended to be effective January 24, 1992, 17 TexReg 255.