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2006 Massachusetts Code - CHAPTER 19. — DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH.
- Chapter 19 — Section 1. Creation; powers of department and commissioner.
- Chapter 19 — Section 2. Commissioner; appointment; qualifications; appointments by commissioner; report; salary.
- Chapter 19 — Section 3. Deputy commissioner; appointment; duties; qualifications.
- Chapter 19 — Section 4. Assistant, deputy or associate commissioners; appointment; duties; qualifications.
- Chapter 19 — Section 5. Legal counsel.
- Chapter 19 — Section 6. Program for training of residents in psychiatry and other professional disciplines.
- Chapter 19 — Section 7. State facilities under department control; admission.
- Chapter 19 — Section 8. Superintendents or directors; vacancies; appointments; qualifications; officers.
- Chapter 19 — Section 8A. Boards of trustees for state hospitals.
- Chapter 19 — Section 9. Repealed, 1996, 58, Sec. 12.
- Chapter 19 — Section 10. Crimes committed by or upon persons on facility premises or persons in care of facility.
- Chapter 19 — Section 11. Mental health advisory council.
- Chapter 19 — Section 11A. Disclosure of financial interest in department contracts by human rights advisory committee members.
- Chapter 19 — Section 12. Community mental health services.
- Chapter 19 — Section 13. Community mental health area directors.
- Chapter 19 — Section 14. Community mental health area boards.
- Chapter 19 — Section 15. Duties and powers of area boards.
- Chapter 19 — Section 16. Development and maintenance of community mental health services.
- Chapter 19 — Section 17. Area advisory committees.
- Chapter 19 — Section 18. Rules and regulations.
- Chapter 19 — Section 19. Residential or day care services; licenses.
- Chapter 19 — Section 20. Mental health facility employees; civil service exemption.
- Chapter 19 — Section 21. Interagency agreements with mental retardation department.
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