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2012 Massachusetts General Laws
PART I ADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERNMENT(Chapters 1 through 182)
TITLE II EXECUTIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS OF THE COMMONWEALTH
CHAPTER 19 DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH
- Section 1 Creation; powers of department and commissioner
- Section 2 Commissioner; appointment; qualifications; appointments by commissioner; report; salary
- Section 3 Deputy commissioner; appointment; duties; qualifications
- Section 4 Assistant, deputy or associate commissioners; appointment; duties; qualifications
- Section 5 Legal counsel
- Section 6 Program for training of residents in psychiatry and other professional disciplines
- Section 7 State facilities under department control; admission
- Section 8 Superintendents or directors; vacancies; appointments; qualifications; officers
- Section 8A Boards of trustees for state hospitals
- Section 9 Repealed, 1996, 58, Sec. 12
- Section 10 Crimes committed by or upon persons on facility premises or persons in care of facility
- Section 11 Mental health advisory council
- Section 11A Disclosure of financial interest in department contracts by human rights advisory committee members
- Section 12 Community mental health services
- Section 13 Community mental health area directors
- Section 14 Community mental health area boards
- Section 15 Duties and powers of area boards
- Section 16 Development and maintenance of community mental health services
- Section 17 Area advisory committees
- Section 18 Rules and regulations
- Section 19 Residential or day care services; licenses
- Section 20 Mental health facility employees; civil service exemption
- Section 21 Interagency agreements with developmental services department
- Section 22 Consultation of commissioner for behavioral health services for children
- Section 23 Children’s behavioral research center; powers and duties; annual report
- Section 24 Notification of parent or guardian of child receiving inpatient psychiatric services
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