General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 111 Public Health

• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 111, Section 1
  The following words as used in this chapter, unless a different meaning is required by the context or is specifically prescribed, shall have the following...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1966, 685, Sec. 4 - Chapter 111, Section 1A 1B
  Repealed, 1966, 685, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Duties of commissioner of public health - Chapter 111, Section 2
  The commissioner shall administer the laws relative to health and sanitation and the regulations of the department, and shall prepare rules and regulations for the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Co-operation with Massachusetts rehabilitation commission - Chapter 111, Section 2A
  The commissioner and any executive officer or employee appointed by him shall co-operate with the Massachusetts rehabilitation commission under the provisions of section eighty-one of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Air pollution emergencies - Chapter 111, Section 2B
  If the commissioner of environmental protection, in this section called the commissioner determines that the condition or impending condition of the atmosphere in the commonwealth...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Pollution violations; orders of department of environmental protection - Chapter 111, Section 2C
  The commissioner of environmental protection or his designee may issue orders in the name of the department of environmental protection upon witnessing or being presented...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Massachusetts AIDS Fund; definitions - Chapter 111, Section 2D
  As used in sections two D to two F, inclusive, the following words shall, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, have the following meanings:— “AIDS”,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Massachusetts AIDS Fund; expenditures - Chapter 111, Section 2E
  The commissioner may expend amounts contained in the fund, with the advice and under the guidance of the AIDS advisory board, solely for research treatment,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Massachusetts AIDS advisory board; membership - Chapter 111, Section 2F
  There shall be an AIDS advisory board constituted for the general purpose of making recommendations to the commissioner concerning the administration and allocation of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Prevention and Wellness Trust Fund - Chapter 111, Section 2G
  (a) There shall be established and set upon the books of the commonwealth a separate fund to be known as the Prevention and Wellness Trust...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Prevention and Wellness Advisory Board - Chapter 111, Section 2H
  There shall be a Prevention and Wellness Advisory Board to make recommendations to the commissioner concerning the administration and allocation of the Prevention and Wellness...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Public health council; hearings, intervention - Chapter 111, Section 3
  The council shall make and promulgate rules and regulations, take evidence in appeals, consider plans and appointments required by law, hold hearings, and discharge other...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Board of trustees of Massachusetts hospital school; appointment - Chapter 111, Section 3A
  There shall be a board of trustees, to be known as the board of trustees of the Massachusetts hospital school, serving in the department and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Health districts; district health officers; enforcement of laws in districts - Chapter 111, Section 4
  The commissioner, with the approval of the council, shall from time to time divide the state into not more than eight health districts. He may...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1971, 1076, Sec. 3 - Chapter 111, Section 4A to 4D
  Repealed, 1971, 1076, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Program to combat intellectual disabilities in children - Chapter 111, Section 4E
  The department of public health is hereby authorized and directed to establish a program to combat intellectual disability in children suffering from a genetic effect...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Advisory council on radiation protection - Chapter 111, Section 4F
  There shall be an advisory council on radiation protection consisting of the commissioners of public health, labor and industries, public safety, and administration, the personnel...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Epileptics; program for care, treatment and rehabilitation - Chapter 111, Section 4G
  The department shall establish, in one or more institutions under its control, a program for the care, treatment and medical rehabilitation of persons suffering from...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Chronic renal diseases; care and treatment; agreements - Chapter 111, Section 4H
  The department is hereby authorized, subject to appropriation, to establish and maintain services for the treatment and care of persons suffering from chronic renal diseases...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Erythroblastosis fetalis; prevention; rules and regulations - Chapter 111, Section 4I
  The department is hereby authorized to establish, promote, and administer a statewide program for the prevention of erythroblastosis fetalis, and may produce and distribute as...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Multi-Disciplinary Medical Review Team; certification of nursing home care eligibility - Chapter 111, Section 4J
  No individual from birth to age twenty-two shall be admitted to a nursing home unless, prior to such admission, application has been made by or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Diethylstilbestrol; public information program; regional screening; annual report - Chapter 111, Section 4K
  The commissioner shall establish, promote, and maintain a public information program regarding diethylstilbestrol, hereinafter referred to as DES. Such program shall be conducted throughout the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Advisory board for diethylstilbestrol program - Chapter 111, Section 4L
  An advisory board is hereby established under the supervision of the department for the purpose of implementing the provisions of section four K. Said board...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Educational material for diagnosis, treatment and prevention of hepatitis C - Chapter 111, Section 4M
  The department of public health shall make available to all veterans, physicians, other health care providers, and other persons at high risk for hepatitis C,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Prescription drugs outreach and education program for physicians, pharmacists and other health care professionals - Chapter 111, Section 4N
  (a) The department shall, in cooperation with Commonwealth Medicine at the University of Massachusetts medical school, develop, implement and promote an evidence-based outreach and education...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appointment of dental director; office of oral health; responsibilities - Chapter 111, Section 4O
  (a) Subject to appropriation, the commissioner shall appoint a dental director. The dental director shall serve at the pleasure of the commissioner and shall be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appointment of dental director; office of oral health; responsibilities - Chapter 111, Section 4O
  (a) Subject to appropriation, the commissioner shall appoint a dental director. The dental director shall serve at the pleasure of the commissioner and shall be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Powers and duties of department - Chapter 111, Section 5
  The department shall take cognizance of the interests of life, health, comfort and convenience among the citizens of the commonwealth; shall conduct sanitary investigations and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Preparation and distribution of antitoxins, serums, vaccines and products applicable to prevention and cure of diseases - Chapter 111, Section 5A
  Whenever the commissioner determines that the inoculation of the general public by, or the administration to the general public of, any antitoxin, serum, vaccine or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Emergency Stockpile Trust Fund - Chapter 111, Section 5A1/2
  (a) There is hereby established and set up on the books of the commonwealth a separate trust fund to be known as the Emergency Stockpile...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1987, 549, Sec. 3 - Chapter 111, Section 5B
  Repealed, 1987, 549, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1958, 79, Sec. 1 - Chapter 111, Section 5C
  Repealed, 1958, 79, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Plastic bags and film; rules and regulations - Chapter 111, Section 5D
  The department shall make such rules and regulations concerning labeling, thickness and methods of use of plastic bags and plastic film as it shall deem...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application of chemicals to control aquatic nuisances; licenses; rules and regulations; violations; penalties; applicability of section - Chapter 111, Section 5E
  No person shall for the purpose of controlling algae, weeds and other aquatic nuisances therein apply chemicals to a lake, pond, stream, or other body...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Aquatic nuisances; control; cost sharing programs - Chapter 111, Section 5F
  The department shall undertake the control of algae, weeds and other aquatic nuisances in waters within the commonwealth in accordance with priorities established under this...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Water supply; treatment facilities - Chapter 111, Section 5G
  The department may require by order a city, town, person or district maintaining a water supply to provide and operate such treatment facilities as are...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1966, 685, Sec. 4; 1980, 261, Sec. 24A - Chapter 111, Section 5H
  Repealed, 1966, 685, Sec. 4; 1980, 261, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Laser equipment; rules and regulations; penalties for violation - Chapter 111, Section 5I
  The department may from time to time, after a public hearing, adopt, alter or repeal such rules and regulations relative to the use of laser...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Radiation treatment; clinical precautions - Chapter 111, Section 5J
  Any person who administers radiation treatment of any kind to another person shall use lead shields to protect such other person when clinically appropriate. If...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nuclear reactors; monitoring and surveillance; charges and assessments - Chapter 111, Section 5K
  (A) The department, subject to appropriation, shall adopt rules and regulations that monitor the use and release of nuclear materials, source materials, or radioactive materials,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Radiologic technologists; advisory commission; licenses - Chapter 111, Section 5L
  There shall be an advisory commission for radiologic technologists, in this section called the commission, consisting of nine members to be appointed by the governor....
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 111, Section 5M
  As used in sections five M to five P, inclusive, or the rules and regulations adopted under said sections, the following words shall, unless the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - State radiation control agency; radioactive hazards of sources emitting ionizing and nonionizing radiation - Chapter 111, Section 5N
  Except as otherwise provided in this section, the department is hereby designated as the state radiation control agency. The department shall develop and, from time...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notices of violation and orders; hearing; civil penalties - Chapter 111, Section 5O
  The department may issue notices of violation and orders as are necessary to enforce the provisions of sections five N to five Q, inclusive, or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Use, manufacture, production, transfer, receipt, acquisition, ownership or possession of radiation sources; license or registration requirement; penalties - Chapter 111, Section 5P
  It shall be unlawful for any person to use, manufacture, produce, transfer, receive, acquire, own, or possess any source of radiation unless licensed, registered or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Mammography facilities; rules and regulations; licensing; inspections - Chapter 111, Section 5Q
  (a) The department shall promulgate rules and regulations for the licensing of mammography facilities. Said rules and regulations shall establish mandatory requirements for facilities that...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions; distribution and sale of household cleansing products containing phosphorus; limitations; violations - Chapter 111, Section 5R
  For the purpose of this section the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— “Commercial establishment”, any premises used...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Public bathing waters; minimum sanitation standards; testing, monitoring and analysis; regulations - Chapter 111, Section 5S
  (a) As used in this section, the following words shall have the following meanings:— “Bathing water”, fresh or salt water adjacent to any public bathing...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Power to define diseases deemed dangerous to public health; control and prevention - Chapter 111, Section 6
  The department shall have the power to define, and shall from time to time define, what diseases shall be deemed to be dangerous to the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Hemophilia; program for care and treatment; definition - Chapter 111, Section 6A
  The department shall establish a program for the care and treatment of persons suffering from hemophilia. For the purposes of this and sections six B...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Hemophilia advisory committee - Chapter 111, Section 6B
  The commissioner shall appoint a Hemophilia Advisory Committee, hereafter referred to as the committee, to consult with the department in the administration of this act....
• Massachusetts General Laws - Hemophilia program; powers and duties of department - Chapter 111, Section 6C
  The department shall:— (a) With the advice of the committee, develop standards for determining eligibility for and the nature of treatment under this program; (b)...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Advisory committee for genetically handicapped persons; investigation and study; rules and regulations - Chapter 111, Section 6D
  There is hereby established within the department an advisory committee for genetically handicapped persons, hereinafter referred to as the committee. The committee shall be composed...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Investigation of contagious or infectious diseases; notice - Chapter 111, Section 7
  If smallpox or any other contagious or infectious disease declared by the department to be dangerous to the public health exists or is likely to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Use of common drinking cup or towel; rules and regulations - Chapter 111, Section 8
  In order to prevent the spread of communicable diseases, the department may prohibit in hotels and in such public places, vehicles or buildings as it...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Poisonous or corrosive substances; disposal or closures of containers - Chapter 111, Section 8A
  The department shall make such rules and regulations concerning the disposal or discard of containers of poisonous substances and concerning the closures of containers of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1973, 948, Sec. 6 - Chapter 111, Section 8B
  Repealed, 1973, 948, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fluoridation of public water supplies by local boards; advice of commissioner; election; discontinuance - Chapter 111, Section 8C
  The department in taking cognizance of the dental health of the people in the commonwealth shall recommend such methods as in its opinion are advisable...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inspectors, analysts and chemists; appointment; removal; power and authority; interference with - Chapter 111, Section 9
  In the performance of the duties relative to the sale of drugs and food the commissioner may appoint and remove inspectors, analysts and chemists. Such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1989, 610, Sec. 2 - Chapter 111, Section 10
  Repealed, 1989, 610, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2012, 139, Sec. 107 - Chapter 111, Section 11 to 13
  Repealed, 2012, 139, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1989, 610, Sec. 3 - Chapter 111, Section 14
  Repealed, 1989, 610, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rheumatic fever; treatment of patients - Chapter 111, Section 14A
  The department shall purchase and distribute to the boards of health in cities and towns penicillin and such other prophylactic drugs as the commissioner may...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Services for division of animal health - Chapter 111, Section 15
  The department may perform for the division of animal health, upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon, such services in its laboratory...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unsanitary condition of barns, stables or enclosures in which cattle are kept; report - Chapter 111, Section 16
  The department shall report to the director of animal health all cases brought to its attention where barns, stables or other enclosures, in which neat...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Disposal of sewage; consultation, advice or experiments; hearing; improvements; definition - Chapter 111, Section 17
  The department of environmental protection, in this section called the department, shall consult with and advise the officers of towns and persons having or about...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Powers and duties of district health officer - Chapter 111, Section 18
  Every district health officer shall inform himself respecting the sanitary condition of his district and concerning all influences dangerous to the public health or threatening...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Annual report of district health officer - Chapter 111, Section 19
  Every such officer shall keep a record of his proceedings and observations, shall annually on or before December first make a report thereof to the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inspection of correctional institutions and lockups; findings and recommendations; report - Chapter 111, Section 20
  The department shall, semiannually, inspect each correctional institution, as defined in section one of chapter one hundred and twenty-five, and shall, annually, inspect each lockup...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules for living conditions of detainees; enforcement - Chapter 111, Section 21
  The department shall make rules and regulations for police station houses, lockups, houses of detention, jails, houses of correction, prisons and reformatories, regarding the care...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Approval of plans for police station houses, houses of detention or lockups; enforcement - Chapter 111, Section 22
  No station house, house of detention or lockup shall be built until the department has approved, in writing, the plans for the provisions for lighting,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Annual report of commissioner of environmental protection; recommendations - Chapter 111, Section 23
  The commissioner of environmental protection shall make an annual report, including the results of the examination of main outlets of sewers and drainage of towns...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Publication of parts of annual report; manual of laws - Chapter 111, Section 24
  The department may publish for general distribution such parts of its annual report to the general court and such other matter as it may deem...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reduction of morbidity and mortality; establishment of program; information and reports - Chapter 111, Section 24A
  The commissioner may authorize or cause to be made scientific studies and research which have for their purpose the reduction of morbidity and mortality within...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Birth information; statistical purposes - Chapter 111, Section 24B
  Upon the birth of any child, the physician, certified nurse midwife, administrator or other person in charge of a hospital, or any other person responsible...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 299 - Chapter 111, Section 24C
  Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 300 - Chapter 111, Section 24D
  Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Comprehensive family planning services; program establishment - Chapter 111, Section 24E
  For the purposes of this section, the term “comprehensive family planning services” shall mean those medical, educational, and social services that assist individuals of childbearing...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1997, 170, Sec. 4 - Chapter 111, Section 24F
  Repealed, 1997, 170, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 301 - Chapter 111, Section 24G
  Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Managed care program within community health centers - Chapter 111, Section 24H
  The department shall, subject to appropriation, establish a program of managed care within community health centers pursuant to regulations promulgated by the department; provided, however,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Universal immunization program - Chapter 111, Section 24I
  There is hereby established a universal immunization program. Said program shall be administered by the department, subject to appropriation. Any revenues generated by said program...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Medical respite services program - Chapter 111, Section 24J
  There is hereby established a program of medical respite services provided by the Boston health care for the homeless program. Said program shall be administered...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Pediatric palliative care program; eligibility; services - Chapter 111, Section 24K
  There is hereby established the pediatric palliative care program. Said program shall be administered by the department, subject to appropriation, under this section and regulations...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Shaken baby syndrome prevention initiative - Chapter 111, Section 24L
  (a) The department of public health shall collaborate with the department of children and families, the child abuse prevention board and staff of the Children’s...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Computerized immunization registry - Chapter 111, Section 24M
  The department shall establish, maintain and operate a computerized immunization registry. The immunization registry shall record immunizations and immunization history with identifying information and shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Childhood vaccine program; Vaccine Purchase Trust Fund; vaccine program advisory council; surcharge - Chapter 111, Section 24N
  [ Text of section added by 2014, 28, Sec. 1 effective June 30, 2014. See 2014, 28, Sec. 5.](a) As used in this section the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Publication of certificate of examination or results of analyses - Chapter 111, Section 25
  The department shall publish in each issue of its official departmental publication, and also, if in its opinion the public health can be served thereby,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inventory of health care resources and related information; status as public record; reporting regulations; publication; inter-agency cooperation; contracts authorized - Chapter 111, Section 25A
  The department, in order to identify the location, distribution and nature of all health care resources in the commonwealth shall establish and maintain on a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 111, Section 25B
  In this section and sections twenty-five C to twenty-five G, inclusive, the following words shall have the following meanings: “Appropriate regional comprehensive health planning agency,”...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Expenditure minimums; annual adjustments - Chapter 111, Section 25B1/2
  Expenditure minimums established pursuant to section twenty-five B shall be adjusted annually by the department after consideration of any inflation index set by the Secretary...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Determination of need - Chapter 111, Section 25C
  (a) Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, except as provided in section 25C1/2, a person or agency of the commonwealth or any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Exemption from determination of need of projects related to inpatient services - Chapter 111, Section 25C1/2
  (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of section twenty-five C, no determination of need shall be required for any substantial capital expenditure for construction related to the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Financing; notice of intent; necessity of application for determination of need; acceptance of gifts; governmental bodies as applicant; report - Chapter 111, Section 25D
  Every person, at least thirty days prior to making a public solicitation of funds or otherwise securing financing for construction of a health care facility...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Administrative appeal; hearing; decision; judicial review - Chapter 111, Section 25E
  Any person or agency filing an application for determination of need or empowered to request a public hearing under the provisions of section twenty-five C,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations; effective date - Chapter 111, Section 25F
  The department and the health facilities appeals board are hereby authorized and directed to promulgate rules and regulations necessary for the implementation of sections twenty-five...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement - Chapter 111, Section 25G
  The superior and supreme judicial courts shall have jurisdiction, upon request of the department, the appropriate regional comprehensive health planning agency, or of any ten...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Severability; voidability of provisions in violation of federal law - Chapter 111, Section 25H
  The provisions of sections twenty-five B to twenty-five G, inclusive, are severable and if any provision shall be in violation of any federal rule or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Guidelines for the reduction of medication waste in licensed facilities - Chapter 111, Section 25I
  The department, in conjunction with the board of registration in pharmacy and the division of medical assistance, shall establish and implement guidelines to reduce medication...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Competent interpreter services in acute-care hospitals - Chapter 111, Section 25J
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following words shall have the following meanings:— “Non-English speaker”, a person who cannot speak or understand, or has...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Educational insert accompanying sale of hypodermic syringes and needles - Chapter 111, Section 25K
  The department shall develop an educational insert to accompany the sale of hypodermic syringes and needles. This educational insert shall include, but not be limited...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Health care workforce center - Chapter 111, Section 25L
  (a) There shall be in the department a health care workforce center to improve access to health and behavioral, substance use disorder and mental health...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Healthcare workforce advisory council - Chapter 111, Section 25M
  (a) There shall be a healthcare workforce advisory council within, but not subject to the control of, the health care provider workforce center established by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Health care workforce loan repayment program - Chapter 111, Section 25N
  (a) There shall be a health care workforce loan repayment program, administered by the health care workforce center established by section 25L. The program shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Primary care residency grant program - Chapter 111, Section 25N.5
    Section 25N1/2. (a) As used in this section, "primary care provider'', shall mean a health care professional qualified to provide general medical care for common...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Primary care workforce development and loan forgiveness grant program - Chapter 111, Section 25N3/4
  There shall be established a primary care workforce development and loan forgiveness grant program at community health centers, for the purpose of enhancing recruitment and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Programs to protect safety of victims of violence; guidelines; dissemination to and training of health care providers - Chapter 111, Section 25O
  (a) The department of public health, in consultation with other executive office of health and human services agencies and the executive office of public safety...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2012, 224, Sec. 73 - Chapter 111, Section 25P
  Repealed, 2012, 224, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Boards of health in cities; membership; appointment; removal; compensation - Chapter 111, Section 26
  In each city, except as hereinafter provided, the board of health shall consist of three persons, one of whom shall be a physician. No one...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Health departments in cities; commissioners - Chapter 111, Section 26A
  A city, by accepting the provisions of this section and sections twenty-six B to twenty-six E, inclusive, by vote of the city council and approval...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Commissioner of health in cities; appointment; removal; qualifications - Chapter 111, Section 26B
  In a city the mayor, with the approval of the city council, unless otherwise provided in the city charter, and in a town the board...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Advisory council of health in cities; members; qualifications; appointment; terms; removal; compensation; meetings; function - Chapter 111, Section 26C
  The advisory council of health shall consist of nine persons, two of whom shall be registered physicians and five of whom shall be nonprofessionals. For...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Abolition of boards of health in cities and towns upon qualification of commissioner - Chapter 111, Section 26D
  Upon the qualification of the commissioner of health first appointed under section twenty-six B, the terms of the then existing members of the board of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations for departments of health; assistants and clerks - Chapter 111, Section 26E
  Every such commissioner of health shall make rules and regulations for the department of health, its officers, agents and assistants. He may appoint such necessary...
• Massachusetts General Laws - List of hazardous chemicals in water supply; effects - Chapter 111, Section 26F
  In any city or town which accepts the provisions of this section, the board of health of such city or town shall annually publish a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Septic system installers; inspections - Chapter 111, Section 26G
  In any city, town or district which accepts the provisions of this section notwithstanding the provisions of section seventeen of chapter two hundred and sixty-eight...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Organization of boards; appointment of physician and clerk; compensation - Chapter 111, Section 27
  Every such board shall organize annually by the choice of one of its number as chairman. It may make rules and regulations for its own...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appointment of health officer by two or more towns; duties; compensation; joint committee - Chapter 111, Section 27A
  Two or more municipalities may, by vote of each, form a district for the purpose of employing therein a health officer and necessary assistants and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Regional health districts; regional board of health; powers and duties; administration; organization; management; accounts; rules and regulations - Chapter 111, Section 27B
  Two or more municipalities may, by vote of their respective boards of health and, in a city having a Plan E charter by the affirmative...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reimbursement of regional health districts; qualification; formula for allocation of state funds for operating expenses - Chapter 111, Section 27C
  (1) Each regional health district established under section 27B shall be entitled to reimbursement from the commonwealth, subject to appropriation, for expenditures incurred by it...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Annual reports - Chapter 111, Section 28
  In each city such board shall annually in January make a full and comprehensive report to the city council of its acts during the preceding...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Weekly reports of deaths from diseases dangerous to public health - Chapter 111, Section 29
  Boards of health shall send to the department every week, upon forms to be prescribed by it, a report of deaths in their towns for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Agents; appointment; inspections - Chapter 111, Section 30
  Boards of health may appoint agents or directors of public health to act for them in cases of emergency or if they cannot conveniently assemble,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Health regulations; summary publication; hearings; filing sanitary codes and related rules, etc. - Chapter 111, Section 31
  Boards of health may make reasonable health regulations. A summary which shall describe the substance of any regulation made by a board of health under...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Permit for removal or transportation of garbage; application; exemptions - Chapter 111, Section 31A
  No person shall remove or transport garbage, offal or other offensive substances through the streets of any city or town without first obtaining a permit...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations for removal of garbage; penalty - Chapter 111, Section 31B
  Boards of health shall, from time to time, make rules and regulations for the control of the removal, transportation or disposal of garbage, offal or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Atmospheric pollution; regulation and control; publication; hearings; penalties; enforcement; jurisdiction; injunction - Chapter 111, Section 31C
  A board of health, or other legal authority constituted for such purpose by vote of the town or city council shall have jurisdiction to regulate...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Privy, cesspool and septic tanks; disposal of contents; investigation of facilities - Chapter 111, Section 31D
  Cities, towns and sewerage districts may, subject to the approval of the department of environmental protection, provide facilities for the receipt and disposal of privy,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Individual sewage disposal systems; action on applications - Chapter 111, Section 31E
  Any health officer or board of health for any city, town or district, whose authority includes the issuance of permits for construction, maintenance or alteration...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Retention of cases by board of health - Chapter 111, Section 32
  A board of health shall retain charge of any case arising under this chapter in which it has acted.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Construction and maintenance of sanitary stations - Chapter 111, Section 33
  In every city, and in every town having a population of over ten thousand, when, in the opinion of the board of health, public necessity...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1937, 362, Sec. 6 - Chapter 111, Section 34 to 43
  Repealed, 1937, 362, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1928, 229, Sec. 2 - Chapter 111, Section 44 45
  Repealed, 1928, 229, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1937, 362, Sec. 6 - Chapter 111, Section 46 to 49
  Repealed, 1937, 362, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment and maintenance of dental, medical and health clinics; appropriations - Chapter 111, Section 50
  Towns may establish and maintain dental, medical and health clinics, and in connection therewith may conduct campaigns of general education relative to matters of public...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Hospitals, institutions for unwed mothers, or clinics; licensing - Chapter 111, Section 51
  The department shall issue for a term of two years, and shall renew for like terms, a license, subject to revocation by it for cause,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Out-of-hospital dialysis units; licensing - Chapter 111, Section 51A
  The department shall establish rules and regulations for the licensing of out-of-hospital dialysis units not operated as a part of a hospital licensed under this...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Pregnancy clinics - Chapter 111, Section 51B
  Local boards of health, hospitals, dispensaries or other agencies may establish and maintain clinics or other services for pregnant girls and women for the purpose...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Applications for staff membership or clinical privileges; discrimination - Chapter 111, Section 51C
  Each hospital, or other institution, licensed under section fifty-one shall not discriminate against an individual qualified within the scope of his or her license when...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Discrimination by acute hospitals against medicare beneficiaries; discharge planning - Chapter 111, Section 51D
  No acute hospital shall impose any discriminatory restrictions or conditions relating to admission, availability of services, treatment, transfer or discharge with respect to any patient...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Applications by clinical specialists in psychiatric and mental health nursing for staff membership or clinical privileges; discrimination - Chapter 111, Section 51E
  When considering and acting on applications of certified clinical specialists in psychiatric and mental health nursing for staff membership and clinical privileges, no by-law, rule,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Applications by licensed independent clinical social workers for staff membership or clinical privileges; discrimination - Chapter 111, Section 51F
  No hospital, or other institution, licensed under section fifty-one shall discriminate against an individual qualified within the scope of his license when considering or acting...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Acute-care hospitals; original licensure process; determination of suitability and responsibility; factors - Chapter 111, Section 51G
  (1) No original license shall be granted to establish or maintain an acute-care hospital, as defined by section 25B unless there is a determination by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reporting about healthcare-associated infections and serious reportable events, and serious adverse drug events; charges or reimbursement for resulting services prohibited - Chapter 111, Section 51H
  (a) As used in this section the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings: “Facility”, a hospital, institution for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Checklists of care - Chapter 111, Section 51I
  (a) As used in this section the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings: “Adverse event”, injury to a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Limited services clinics - Chapter 111, Section 51J
  The department shall promulgate regulations regarding limited services clinics. The regulations shall promote the availability of limited services clinics as a point of access for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions applicable to Secs. 51 to 56, inclusive - Chapter 111, Section 52
  In sections fifty-one to fifty-six, inclusive, the following words shall have the following meanings:— “Certified clinical specialist in psychiatric and mental health nursing”, a registered...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Classification of hospitals; rules and regulations; dialysis units; inspections - Chapter 111, Section 53
  The department shall classify all hospitals. The department shall, after a public hearing, promulgate rules and regulations for the conduct of hospitals and clinics. Such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Hospitals and in-patient clinics to offer and perform “Pap tests” - Chapter 111, Section 53A
  Every hospital and in-patient clinic licensed by the department or financially supported in whole or in part by the commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Physician staff privileges; report of denial, restriction, revocation or failure to renew; liability of informant; annual disciplinary summary; penalty - Chapter 111, Section 53B
  Any person licensed under section fifty-one shall report to the board of registration in medicine when the licensee denies, restricts, revokes, or fails to renew...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Non-reusable syringes; regulation advisory committee - Chapter 111, Section 53C
  Every hospital, clinic or home health care provider licensed by the department or receiving funds from the commonwealth shall comply with regulations issued by the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Devises minimizing risk of injury to health care workers from hypodermic syringes or needles; regulations - Chapter 111, Section 53D
  (a) Any acute or non-acute hospital licensed under this chapter shall ensure the provision of services to individuals through the use of hollow-bore needle devices...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Patient and family advisory councils; establishment - Chapter 111, Section 53E
  The department shall promulgate regulations for the establishment of a patient and family advisory council at each hospital in the commonwealth. The council shall advise...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Requests for additional assistance for deteriorating patients - Chapter 111, Section 53F
  The department shall require acute care hospitals to have a suitable method for health care staff members, patients and families to request additional assistance directly...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Entity certified as ambulatory surgical center for participation in Medicaid program deemed a clinic for purposes of licensure under Sec. 51. - Chapter 111, Section 53G
  Any entity that is certified or seeking certification as an ambulatory surgical center by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for participation in the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Contracts with physicians affecting ability to testify in administrative or judicial hearings - Chapter 111, Section 53H
  No hospital shall enter into a contract or agreement which creates or establishes a partnership, employment or any other professional relationship with a licensed physician...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Audit of medical records - Chapter 111, Section 54
  The department shall, when deemed necessary, but not more than once in each year, order an audit of the medical records required to be kept...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Advisory council - Chapter 111, Section 55
  There shall be an advisory council on the licensing of hospitals, hospital surveys and construction planning, consisting of the commissioners of public health, mental health...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties; enforcement - Chapter 111, Section 56
  Whoever advertises, announces, establishes or maintains, or is concerned in establishing or maintaining a hospital, an institution for unwed mothers or a clinic, without a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment and maintenance of tuberculosis dispensaries; rules and regulations; inspection - Chapter 111, Section 57
  Every city having a population of fifty thousand or more, as determined by the last national census, shall establish and maintain within its limits a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment and maintenance of cancer clinics - Chapter 111, Section 57A
  The department, with or without the cooperation of local boards of health, hospitals, dispensaries or other agencies, shall establish and maintain cancer clinics in such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment and maintenance of muscular dystrophy clinics - Chapter 111, Section 57B
  The department, with or without the co-operation of local boards of health, hospitals, dispensaries or other agencies, shall establish and maintain muscular dystrophy clinics in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment and maintenance of clinics for the aging - Chapter 111, Section 57C
  The department, with the co-operation of local boards of health, hospitals, dispensaries or other agencies shall establish and maintain clinics for the aging in such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Hospice programs; licensure; limitations - Chapter 111, Section 57D
  The department shall, after a public hearing, promulgate rules and regulations for the licensing and conduct of hospice programs. A hospice program means palliative and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1972, 785, Sec. 4 - Chapter 111, Section 58 to 62
  Repealed, 1972, 785, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment of children’s health camps in cities and towns - Chapter 111, Section 62A
  In each city and town which accepts this and the six following sections, in a city by vote of its city council subject to the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Commission on children’s health camps; membership; appointment - Chapter 111, Section 62B
  In each such city and town there shall be an unpaid commission, called the commission on children’s health camps, to consist of the mayor or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Powers and duties of commission - Chapter 111, Section 62C
  Said commission shall establish, maintain and have control of all children’s health camps for the purposes named in section sixty-two A, and in addition shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Investment by city or town treasurer of money and securities received from commission; bond - Chapter 111, Section 62D
  The city or town treasurer shall invest, reinvest and hold in the name of said commission any money or securities, or the proceeds thereof, received...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Records; annual reports of receipts and disbursements - Chapter 111, Section 62E
  The commission shall keep a record of its doings and at the close of each financial year shall make a report to the city or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Formation of union children’s health camp district by two or more cities or towns; management; commission; membership - Chapter 111, Section 62F
  Any two or more such cities or towns may vote to form, for such period of time not exceeding five years as such cities or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Location and construction plans for health camp; approval; inspection - Chapter 111, Section 62G
  No children’s health camp shall be established under section sixty-two C or sixty-two F unless the location and construction plans of such camp have been...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Contracts for care and treatment of children as compliance with Secs. 62A to 62G - Chapter 111, Section 62H
  A contract for the care and treatment of children coming within the provisions of section sixty-two A, entered into by the commission on children’s health...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Hospital school and hospital for state minor wards; general supervision - Chapter 111, Section 62I
  The department shall have general supervision of the Massachusetts hospital school and hospital for state minor wards.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Purpose of school; children from other states; inpatient or outpatient services - Chapter 111, Section 62J
  The Massachusetts hospital school shall be maintained primarily for the education and care of crippled and deformed children of the commonwealth. When there is no...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Trustees; corporation; additional powers and duties; grants; devises; gifts; trusts - Chapter 111, Section 62K
  The trustees shall be a corporation for the purpose of taking and holding, by them and their successors, in the name of the commonwealth, and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Administration of school; appointment of personnel; expenses - Chapter 111, Section 62L
  The trustees may appoint all persons necessary for the proper administration of the affairs of the school, and may incur all expenses necessary for the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Admissions; applications; discharges; tuition - Chapter 111, Section 62M
  The trustees may, upon application of any child entitled to receive the benefit of said school, or upon such application by a parent, guardian or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inspection of schools; report; audit - Chapter 111, Section 62N
  There shall be a thorough inspection of the school by two of the trustees thereof monthly, and by a majority of them quarterly, and by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Accounts and books of treasurer; inspection by trustees - Chapter 111, Section 62O
  The accounts and books of the treasurer shall at all times be open to the inspection of the trustees.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Construction and maintenance of hospital for state minor wards - Chapter 111, Section 62P
  The trustees of the Massachusetts hospital school, subject to supervision by the department, may construct from time to time, as appropriations are made by the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Powers and duties of trustees; management; admissions; approval - Chapter 111, Section 62Q
  The said trustees shall have the same powers and shall perform the same duties in the management and control of the said hospital for state...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Use of land, buildings and farm products by hospital school and hospital for state minor wards - Chapter 111, Section 62R
  Any land acquired or buildings erected for the Massachusetts hospital school or the hospital for state minor wards, unless it is otherwise expressly provided, and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Assignment of state minor wards to hospital; approval - Chapter 111, Section 62S
  No state minor wards shall be assigned to the said hospital until the commissioner, with the approval of the governor and council, finds that sufficient...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Supervision and control by commissioner - Chapter 111, Section 63
  The commissioner shall have general supervision and control of the Rutland hospital, the Lakeville hospital, and the Western Massachusetts hospital and shall see that the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Admissions to hospital - Chapter 111, Section 63A
  Subject to such rules and regulations as the department may provide, the superintendent of any hospital administered by the department shall be authorized to admit...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Medicare program billings; commissioner’s report - Chapter 111, Section 63B
  The department of public health shall bill the Medicare program established by Title XVIII of the Social Security Act for all patients cared for in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Annual inventory; report; audit - Chapter 111, Section 64
  The commissioner shall annually cause to be made an accurate inventory of the stock and supplies on hand and the amount and value thereof at...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Cushing hospital; general supervision by department - Chapter 111, Section 64A
  The department, subject to the provisions of sections sixty-four B to sixty-four M, inclusive, shall have general supervision of the Cushing Hospital.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Chronic care hospital; services provided; research on aging - Chapter 111, Section 64B
  The Cushing Hospital shall be maintained in the town of Framingham as a chronic care hospital, primarily to provide a comprehensive program of health care...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Board of trustees - Chapter 111, Section 64C
  There shall be a board of trustees of the Cushing Hospital which shall consist of twelve members appointed by the governor. Each member shall serve...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Corporation; investments - Chapter 111, Section 64D
  The trustees shall be a corporation for the purpose of taking and holding, by them and their successors, in the name of the commonwealth, and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Administration of hospital; general trust fund - Chapter 111, Section 64E
  The trustees may appoint all persons necessary for the proper administration of the affairs of the hospital, and may incur all expenses necessary for the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Projected revenue and disbursement schedule of general trust fund - Chapter 111, Section 64F
  The trustees shall annually prepare a projected revenue and disbursement schedule of the general trust fund. Such schedule shall be filed with the commissioner, the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment of other trust funds; assent to federal laws; contracts and agreements - Chapter 111, Section 64G
  The trustees may from time to time establish other trust funds. In the use, management, and administration of gifts or other monies held in trust,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations - Chapter 111, Section 64H
  The trustees of the hospital may adopt, amend or repeal such rules and regulations for the management, control and administration of inpatient fees, and for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Staff members employees of commonwealth - Chapter 111, Section 64I
  All members of the professional and non-professional staff of the hospital shall continue to be employees of the commonwealth, irrespective of the source of funds...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Delegation of authority by trustees - Chapter 111, Section 64J
  The Trustees may, except as to the duties imposed on powers granted under section sixty-four H, delegate their authority or any portion thereof to the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Deposit of patient or resident funds; disposition of unclaimed deposits or personal property; registration and regulation of fiduciaries - Chapter 111, Section 64K
  (a) The superintendent of the hospital may deposit in any bank organized and existing under the law of the commonwealth funds belonging to persons who...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Superintendent; subordinate officers and employees - Chapter 111, Section 64L
  The board of trustees of the hospital, with the approval of the commissioner, shall appoint a superintendent who shall be the chief executive officer of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Care center - Chapter 111, Section 64M
  There shall be a center on the care of the aging, research, and education, hereinafter referred to as the care center. The care center shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1963, 517, Sec. 4 - Chapter 111, Section 65
  Repealed, 1963, 517, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Admission to Lakeville hospital - Chapter 111, Section 65A
  The department may admit to the Lakeville hospital persons suffering from extra-pulmonary tuberculosis, persons crippled by poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), arthritis or muscular dystrophy and other...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1962, 598, Sec. 4 - Chapter 111, Section 65B
  Repealed, 1962, 598, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Patients’ funds; deposit - Chapter 111, Section 65C
  The superintendent of any institution under the supervision and control of the department may deposit in any bank or trust company within the commonwealth or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Patients’ funds; disposition of unclaimed deposits - Chapter 111, Section 65D
  So much of any funds known as “Patients’ Funds” as represents monies belonging to, or deposited for the benefit of, former patients of any such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1961, 608, Sec. 1 - Chapter 111, Section 66 66A
  Repealed, 1961, 608, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Gifts or bequests - Chapter 111, Section 67
  The department may take and hold in trust gifts or bequests for its own use or for the use of any hospital under its charge...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of birth of infant weighing 2500 grams or less or with high risk problem; annual reporting on status of premature and high risk infants - Chapter 111, Section 67A
  (a) Within 10 days after the birth of any infant weighing 2500 grams or less or any infant with a high risk problem as defined...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1985, 557, Sec. 2 - Chapter 111, Section 67B
  Repealed, 1985, 557, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Programs and payment of expenses for care of premature and other high risk infants; procedures for hospital discharge and follow up care; reporting on causes and incidence of re-hospitalizations - Chapter 111, Section 67C
  (a) The department of public health shall provide programs for the prevention, care, and follow-up of premature and other designated high risk infants and establish...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1985, 577, Sec. 4 - Chapter 111, Section 67D
  Repealed, 1985, 577, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Children born with congenital anomaly, birth defect, birth injury or an intellectual disability; reports - Chapter 111, Section 67E
  (a) Within 30 days after the diagnosis in the commonwealth of a congenital anomaly, birth defect or birth injury which may lead to an incapacity...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Newborn hearing screening tests - Chapter 111, Section 67F
  For the purposes of this section, the words “newborn infant” shall mean an infant under three months of age, and the words “hearing screening test”...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Audiometric testing of children; costs - Chapter 111, Section 67G
  Every person in control of a child who has reached age four shall cause such child to be given a complete pure tone test using...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Literature on hearing impairments - Chapter 111, Section 67H
  The literature required by section sixty-seven F shall describe the following high risk conditions:—(1) Before birth (a) Family history of deafness as indicated by one...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1924, 477, Sec. 4 - Chapter 111, Section 68
  Repealed, 1924, 477, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1931, 426, Sec. 14 - Chapter 111, Section 69
  Repealed, 1931, 426, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1957, 459, Sec. 1 - Chapter 111, Section 69A to 69D
  Repealed, 1957, 459, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inpatient and outpatient services; diagnostic evaluation and treatment center; admissions policy - Chapter 111, Section 69E
  The commissioner shall have general supervision and control of the Lemuel Shattuck hospital, the Rutland hospital, the Lakeville hospital, the Pondville hospital, and the Western...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of admission of needy person - Chapter 111, Section 69F
  Notice of admission of a needy person shall be given within ten days to the department of transitional assistance.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Effect of notice of admission of needy person - Chapter 111, Section 69G
  In the case of a needy person not already in receipt of public assistance, the notice of admission shall constitute an application on behalf of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Charges for support; rate - Chapter 111, Section 69H
  The charges for the support of persons receiving care in said hospitals shall be at the rate determined by the executive office of health and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Liability for charges for support; assessment; proceedings; written statements - Chapter 111, Section 69I
  A person, his executor, or administrator, shall be liable in contract for such charges except that persons in receipt of public assistance shall have their...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Operation of concessions - Chapter 111, Section 69J
  The department is authorized to make contracts with private persons or corporations for the operation of concessions in institutions under its charge.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Patients eligible for federal veterans’ benefits - Chapter 111, Section 69K
  The commissioner shall identify patients at institutions subject to the control of the department who are eligible for federal veterans’ benefits and shall take such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Vehicles; moving and parking rules; violations - Chapter 111, Section 69L
  The commissioner shall establish rules for the control, movement and parking of vehicles on the lands within the charge of the department or the various...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Records of hospitals or clinics; custody; inspection; copies; fees - Chapter 111, Section 70
  Hospitals or clinics subject to licensure by the department of public health or supported in whole or in part by the commonwealth, shall keep records...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Hospital lien; creation; priority; application - Chapter 111, Section 70A
  Any person and any city or town maintaining a hospital licensed under the provisions of section fifty-one, any hospital located in the commonwealth and operated...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of lien - Chapter 111, Section 70B
  Such lien shall take effect if, prior to any such judgment, settlement or compromise, a written notice containing the name and address of the injured...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Settlement disregarding hospital lien; effect; limitation of action - Chapter 111, Section 70C
  Any person who pays over any money upon which there is a lien as provided in section seventy A of which he has received notice...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Itemized statement of charges; effect of failure to furnish - Chapter 111, Section 70D
  Upon receipt of a written request mailed by certified mail, return receipt requested, from any person notified of such lien in accordance with the provisions...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Patients’ and residents’ rights - Chapter 111, Section 70E
  As used in this section, “facility” shall mean any hospital, institution for the care of unwed mothers, clinic, infirmary maintained in a town, convalescent or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - HIV test; informed consent; disclosure of results or identity of subject of test - Chapter 111, Section 70F
  A facility, as defined in section 70E, physician or health care provider shall not (1) test any person for the presence of the HIV antibody...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Genetic information and reports protected as private information; prior written consent for genetic testing - Chapter 111, Section 70G
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following words shall have the following meanings:— “Confidential research information”, any results of a genetic test maintained pursuant...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Down Syndrome; information provided to parents upon positive prenatal test result or postnatal diagnosis - Chapter 111, Section 70H
  [Text of section added by 2012, 126. See also, Section 70H added by 2012, 224, Sec. 87, below.] (a) For the purposes of this section,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Licensing of convalescent and nursing homes, infirmaries, etc. - Chapter 111, Section 71
  The department shall issue for a term of two years, and shall renew for like terms, a license, subject to revocation by it for cause,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1967, 891, Sec. 12; 1983, 636, Sec. 24 - Chapter 111, Section 71A
  Repealed, 1967, 891, Sec. 12; 1983, 636, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Deposit of inpatient or resident funds - Chapter 111, Section 71A1/2
  The administrator of any facility licensed pursuant to section seventy-one shall deposit in an interest-bearing account of any bank organized and existing under the laws...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1967, 891, Sec. 12 - Chapter 111, Section 71B
  Repealed, 1967, 891, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Minimum safety and quality of services standards for dementia special care units; compliance by providers of specialized services or programming licensed under Sec. 71; training - Chapter 111, Section 71C
  (a) The department, in consultation with the Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Association, Massachusetts/New Hampshire Chapter, Inc. and representatives from the nursing home provider community...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Classification of convalescent and nursing homes, infirmaries, etc.; rules and regulations; inspections; records of violations; jurisdiction - Chapter 111, Section 72
  The department shall classify convalescent and nursing homes, infirmaries maintained in towns, rest homes, charitable homes for the aged and intermediate care facilities for the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1967, 891, Sec. 12 - Chapter 111, Section 72A 72B
  Repealed, 1967, 891, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Convalescent or nursing homes; lighting and ventilation - Chapter 111, Section 72C
  All convalescent or nursing homes shall be provided throughout with electric lighting, and shall have an emergency lighting system for the boiler room, exits, stairs,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nursing homes, etc.; telephone access - Chapter 111, Section 72D
  Every nursing home, rest home, and long-term care facility shall provide telephone access for the use of the residents. Telephones shall be located so as...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Convalescent and nursing homes; notice of violations; plan of correction; penalties; enforcement - Chapter 111, Section 72E
  The department shall, after every inspection by its agent made under authority of section seventy-two, give the licensee of the inspected facility notice in writing...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions applicable to Secs. 72F to 72L - Chapter 111, Section 72F
  As used in sections 72F to 72L, inclusive, the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings: “Abuse”, the willful...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reports of abuse of patients - Chapter 111, Section 72G
  A physician, medical intern or resident, physician assistant, registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, nurse aide, orderly, home health aide, hospice worker, homemaker, administrator, responsible person,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Duties of department - Chapter 111, Section 72H
  The department shall, subject to appropriation: (1) notify the attorney general forthwith upon receipt of an oral or written report made under the provisions of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Filing of reports; confidentiality - Chapter 111, Section 72I
  The department shall, subject to appropriation, maintain a file of the written reports prepared pursuant to sections 72G and 72H. The report submitted by the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Registry; establishment; documented findings of patient or resident abuse - Chapter 111, Section 72J
  The department shall, subject to appropriation, establish and maintain a registry of all individuals who have met the federal requirements for competency contained in 42...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions; civil penalties; recovery by attorney general - Chapter 111, Section 72K
  (a) As used in this section, the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— “Bodily injury”, substantial impairment of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Abuse by licensed or registered professional; any necessary disciplinary action including suspension or revocation of license - Chapter 111, Section 72L
  Upon a finding by the department of patient or resident abuse, mistreatment or neglect or misappropriation of patient or resident property or a failure to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Immunity from liability as result of compliance with Secs. 72F to 72L - Chapter 111, Section 72L1/2
  A facility, home health agency, hospice program, the directors thereof and, employees and consultants thereof shall be immune from liability as a result of compliance...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appointment of receiver; emergency; definition - Chapter 111, Section 72M
  The superior court department of the trial court, upon petition of the attorney general or upon petition of the department or any interested party, as...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Action to appoint receiver; hearing; list of persons; purpose of receivership; stay of actions - Chapter 111, Section 72N
  The department or the attorney general may bring an action in the superior court department of the trial court requesting the appointment of a receiver...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Authority of receiver; duties; closure of facility; repairs; financial assistance - Chapter 111, Section 72O
  When a receiver is appointed, the licensee shall be divested of possession and control of the facility in favor of the receiver. With the approval...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Leases, mortgages or secured transactions; avoidance; setting of rental or interest rate; hearing; foreclosure - Chapter 111, Section 72P
  A receiver shall not be required to honor any lease, mortgage, or secured transaction entered into by the licensee of the facility if the court...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Compensation of receiver; bond; lien; recoupment of commonwealth expenditures - Chapter 111, Section 72Q
  The court shall set a reasonable compensation for the receiver that is consistent with the regulations of the center for health information and analysis, and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Termination of receivership - Chapter 111, Section 72R
  A receivership shall not be terminated if a license to operate the facility would not be in effect upon termination; or the facility would revert...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Actions against receiver; liability - Chapter 111, Section 72S
  No person shall bring an action against a receiver appointed under section seventy-two N without first securing leave of court. The receiver shall be liable...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Effect of appointment; violation of regulations - Chapter 111, Section 72T
  An order appointing a receiver under section seventy-two N shall have the effect of a license for the duration of the receivership. The receiver shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations - Chapter 111, Section 72U
  The department is hereby authorized and directed to promulgate rules and regulations necessary for the implementation of sections seventy-two N to seventy-two T, inclusive.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nursing homes, etc.; storage space for residents - Chapter 111, Section 72V
  Every nursing home, rest home, or other long term care facility shall provide adequate and secure storage space for the personal property of each resident....
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nurses’ aide training - Chapter 111, Section 72W
  As used in this section the following words shall have the following meanings:— “Long term care facility”, a convalescent home, nursing home, rest home or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nursing homes; no smoking areas - Chapter 111, Section 72X
  All public and private nursing homes shall designate no smoking sections in certain common areas, including lobbies, cafeterias, conference rooms and employee lounges. Smoking by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nursing pool registrations - Chapter 111, Section 72Y
  As used in this section, the following words, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, shall have the following meaning: “Health care facility”, a hospital, institution...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Licensed skilled nursing facilities; intermediate care facilities; family councils - Chapter 111, Section 72Z
  (a.) No licensed skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility may prohibit the formation of a family council and when requested by a member of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Informational document containing laws and regulations; distribution by long-term care facilities - Chapter 111, Section 72AA
  Long-term care facilities shall distribute to each new resident, a resident’s family member or health care proxy, at the time of admission, an informational document...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties - Chapter 111, Section 73
  Whoever advertises, announces, establishes or maintains, or is concerned in establishing or maintaining, a convalescent or nursing home, infirmary maintained in a town, a rest...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Facilities operated by and for persons who rely exclusively upon treatment by spiritual means through prayer for healing - Chapter 111, Section 73A
  Nothing in this chapter or in any rule or regulation adopted pursuant thereto, shall be construed to authorize or require any facility which is operated...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Facilities operated by Roman Catholic Church - Chapter 111, Section 73B
  Nothing in this chapter or in any rule or regulation adopted pursuant thereto, shall be construed to authorize or require any facility which is operated...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appropriation of money for maintenance of free bed in hospital - Chapter 111, Section 74
  Any town not maintaining or managing a hospital may annually appropriate a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, to be paid to a hospital established...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unlawful use of buildings for hospitals - Chapter 111, Section 75
  Whoever occupies or uses a building for a hospital in a part of a town prohibited by the aldermen or selectmen shall forfeit not more...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1961, 608, Sec. 1 - Chapter 111, Section 76
  Repealed, 1961, 608, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Department; duty to provide care and treatment of tuberculosis patients - Chapter 111, Section 77
  The department shall have responsibility for providing hospital care and treatment for all persons resident in the commonwealth suffering from tuberculosis and who need such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Utilization of county institutions; contracts; notice of discontinuance; payments; regulations - Chapter 111, Section 78
  Where county institutions are utilized for providing such care and treatment, the department is authorized to enter into a contract with the county commissioners of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Hospital care of persons suffering from chronic diseases; admission; cost - Chapter 111, Section 78A
  The trustees of a county tuberculosis hospital may admit as patients in said hospital persons who are suffering from chronic disease; provided, that sufficient beds...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Admissions, transfers and discharges of tuberculous patients; supervision; rates of charges - Chapter 111, Section 79
  The department shall have supervision and control of all admissions, transfers, and discharges of tuberculous patients in hospitals within the department or in other hospitals...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Payments for care by cities, towns or able patients; definitions; classifications; appeals - Chapter 111, Section 80
  Each city and town shall pay to the commonwealth its share of the cost of providing general health supplies, care, services and accommodations for any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Programs of control and eradication of tuberculosis; responsibility - Chapter 111, Section 81
  The department shall have responsibility for conducting programs aimed at controlling and eradicating tuberculosis in the commonwealth. It may establish, foster, and give such aid...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Use of intradermal tuberculin tests to show freedom from tuberculosis - Chapter 111, Section 81A
  No ordinance, by-law, rule or regulation of a board of health or the requirements of any public or private institution, school or college shall be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Operation of hospitals by county commissioners or trustees - Chapter 111, Section 82
  The county commissioners may operate and maintain a hospital for purposes as indicated in this section. Where the county commissioners or trustees of such hospital...
• Massachusetts General Laws - County or municipal tuberculosis institutions; conveyance to commonwealth - Chapter 111, Section 83
  Where a county or municipal institution is operating for the care and treatment of tuberculosis patients and the county commissioners or officers in charge of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Indemnity insurance for officers and employees of hospital - Chapter 111, Section 83A
  The county commissioners of any county, acting as trustees of a hospital established therein under section eighty-two may effect insurance providing indemnity for or protection...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Authority to raise and expend money for tuberculosis hospital; borrowing; notes; apportionment of costs - Chapter 111, Section 83B
  County commissioners in carrying out their responsibilities as trustees of county institutions under section eighty-two shall raise and expend such sums of money for acquiring...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1931, 426, Sec. 218 - Chapter 111, Section 84
  Repealed, 1931, 426, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Maintenance of county tuberculosis hospitals; apportionment of costs and expenses - Chapter 111, Section 85
  The county commissioners shall provide for the maintenance, operation and repair of the institutions under section eighty-two provided that the expenditure of money for the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Maintenance, operation and repair of hospitals; apportionment; expenditures - Chapter 111, Section 85A
  To provide such funds as may be necessary to meet the cost of the care, maintenance and repair of a county institution in compliance with...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1961, 608, Sec. 1 - Chapter 111, Section 85B 85C
  Repealed, 1961, 608, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Acquisition of land - Chapter 111, Section 86
  Subject to section eight-four, county commissioners may purchase, lease, or take by eminent domain under chapter seventy-nine, such land, not exceeding five hundred acres, as...
• Massachusetts General Laws - County commissioners as trustees of institutions - Chapter 111, Section 87
  The county commissioners shall be trustees of the institutions operated under section eighty-two except in Norfolk county where there shall be seven trustees consisting of:...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1968, 487, Sec. 6 - Chapter 111, Section 87A
  Repealed, 1968, 487, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Conversion of hospitals into chronic disease hospitals or homes for the aged - Chapter 111, Section 88
  Where, at the time this section goes into effect, a city or town is maintaining a tuberculosis hospital and such hospital is not utilized by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1951, 562, Sec. 9 - Chapter 111, Section 88A
  Repealed, 1951, 562, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1961, 608, Sec. 1 - Chapter 111, Section 88B to 90
  Repealed, 1961, 608, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Exemptions; size of cities and towns; change; cities and towns to become part of district; proportionate payment of costs - Chapter 111, Section 91
  Cities having one hundred thousand or more inhabitants as determined by the last national census, and cities and towns having less than one hundred thousand...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1961, 608, Sec. 1 - Chapter 111, Section 91A 91B
  Repealed, 1961, 608, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Diseases of chest; use of facilities for treatment; rules and regulations - Chapter 111, Section 91C
  Whenever, in the opinion of the board or officer in charge of a tuberculosis hospital maintained by a city or town, the entire facilities of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Construction and maintenance of isolation hospitals; approval - Chapter 111, Section 92
  Each city shall, and each town may, and upon request of the department shall, establish and maintain constantly within its limits one or more hospitals...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Regulation of persons approaching isolation hospital - Chapter 111, Section 93
  Physicians, nurses, attendants, patients and all persons approaching or coming within the limits of such hospitals, and all furniture and other articles used or brought...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Receiving persons from adjoining towns - Chapter 111, Section 94
  The board of health of any town which has established or which may hereafter establish within its limits a hospital for the reception of persons...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certification of non-hospitalized persons afflicted with active tuberculosis; examination; transportation; release - Chapter 111, Section 94A
  (a) The board of health of any city or town, or any member thereof, or two physicians licensed to practice medicine in the commonwealth, may...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Detention of patient at sanatorium; petition; transfer to tuberculosis treatment center; release - Chapter 111, Section 94B
  If any active tuberculosis patient in a municipal, county, state or private sanatorium or hospital indicates his desire to leave the institution against the medical...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Court commitment to tuberculosis treatment center; procedure; notice; hearing - Chapter 111, Section 94C
  Any justice or associate justice of the district court may commit to the tuberculosis treatment center established under section ninety-four D, for prolonged hospitalization, any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Tuberculosis treatment center; establishment; supervision - Chapter 111, Section 94D
  The department shall establish a tuberculosis treatment center in one of the state hospitals, or may contract with a county, municipal or general hospital for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Financial responsibility for treatment of patients; residence - Chapter 111, Section 94E
  The full financial responsibility for the care and treatment of patients hospitalized at the tuberculosis treatment center shall be on the commonwealth. The placing of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Discharge from treatment center; declassification; transfer - Chapter 111, Section 94F
  Any person hospitalized at the treatment center may be discharged therefrom by the superintendent at any time he determines that it is in the best...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Petition for release; order of release - Chapter 111, Section 94G
  Any person hospitalized at the treatment center may petition the district court which committed him to release him therefrom. Such petition shall not be made...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Regulations concerning content of certification; minimum standards - Chapter 111, Section 94H
  The commissioner and the public health council may make regulations concerning the content of the certification made by boards of health and physicians under section...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Powers and duties of boards in cases of infectious diseases - Chapter 111, Section 95
  If a disease dangerous to the public health breaks out in a town, or if a person is infected or lately has been infected therewith,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Warrants to remove persons infected with dangerous disease - Chapter 111, Section 96
  A magistrate authorized to issue warrants may issue a warrant directed to the sheriff of the county or his deputy, or to any constable or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Transportation of person infected with dangerous disease to another town - Chapter 111, Section 96A
  No town shall transport or permit to be transported to another town any person infected with a disease dangerous to the public health, without first...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Removal of patient from home where patient cannot be isolated - Chapter 111, Section 97
  Sections ninety-five and ninety-six, so far as they confer authority for the removal of patients from their homes, shall apply only to persons residing in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Permits for removal of infected articles or sick persons - Chapter 111, Section 98
  Boards of health may grant permits for the removal of any nuisance, infected articles or sick person within the limits of their towns.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Warrant to secure infected articles; application - Chapter 111, Section 99
  If upon application of the board it appears to a magistrate authorized to issue warrants that there is just cause to suspect that baggage, clothing...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Warrant to take houses for safe keeping of infected articles - Chapter 111, Section 100
  The magistrate may, by the same warrant, require the officers, under the direction of the board, to impress and take up convenient houses or stores...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Execution of warrant; breaking open houses - Chapter 111, Section 101
  The officers, in executing the warrant, may command aid and may break open any house, shop or other place mentioned in the warrant. Whoever, being...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Payment of expenses in purifying infected articles - Chapter 111, Section 102
  The expense of securing, transporting and purifying such articles as fixed by the board shall be paid by the owners or by the town, as...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Compensation for houses and stores impressed - Chapter 111, Section 103
  If a sheriff or other officer impresses or takes up any houses, stores, lodging or other necessaries, or impresses men, the town where such persons...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Prevention of spread of infection; public notice; removal - Chapter 111, Section 104
  If a disease dangerous to the public health exists in a town, the selectmen and board of health shall use all possible care to prevent...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violation of regulations - Chapter 111, Section 105
  If a physician or other person who is in any of the hospitals or places of reception mentioned in section ninety-five, or who attends, approaches...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Travelers from infected places outside commonwealth; license - Chapter 111, Section 106
  The board of health of a town near to or bordering upon an adjoining state may in writing appoint suitable persons, who shall attend at...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Transportation of infected dead bodies; rules and regulations - Chapter 111, Section 107
  No person shall convey or cause to be conveyed through or from any town in the commonwealth the body of any person who has died...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Removal of sick prisoners - Chapter 111, Section 108
  If a prisoner in a jail or house of correction has a disease which, in the opinion of the physician of the board of health...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of householder that person in family or house is infected with dangerous disease - Chapter 111, Section 109
  A householder who knows or has cause to believe that a person in his family or house is infected with a disease dangerous to the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Treatment of infants’ eyes at time of birth - Chapter 111, Section 109A
  The physician, or hospital medical officer registered under section nine of chapter one hundred and twelve, if any, personally attending the birth of a child...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Report of diseases of the eyes of infants - Chapter 111, Section 110
  If either eye of an infant becomes inflamed, swollen and red, or shows an unnatural discharge within two weeks after birth, the nurse, relative or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Tests of newborn children for treatable disorders or diseases - Chapter 111, Section 110A
  The physician attending a newborn child shall cause said child to be subjected to tests for phenylketonuria, cretinism and such other specifically treatable genetic or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reyes syndrome treatment or examination; reports - Chapter 111, Section 110B
  A physician, intern, physician assistant, a public health nurse, or another person who professionally examines or treats a child with reyes syndrome shall report such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Congenital heart defects screenings for newborns through pulse oximetry testing or other testing; regulations; development of protocols - Chapter 111, Section 110C
  [Text of section added by 2014, 42 effective June 4, 2014.] For the purposes of this section, the following words shall, unless the context clearly...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notice to board of health that persons infected with dangerous diseases; application of section - Chapter 111, Section 111
  If a physician knows or has cause to believe that a person whom he visits is infected with a disease dangerous to the public health,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Cerebral palsy; reports - Chapter 111, Section 111A
  If a physician or hospital medical officer registered under section nine of chapter one hundred and twelve knows or has cause to believe that a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Malignant disease and benign brain-related tumor registry; reports - Chapter 111, Section 111B
  The department shall, subject to appropriation, establish a registry to record certain cases of malignant disease and benign brain-related tumors that occur in residents of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unprotected exposure capable of transmitting infectious disease; standardized trip form - Chapter 111, Section 111C
  Any person, including without limitation, a police officer, fire fighter, emergency medical technician, corrections officer, ambulance operator or attendant who, while acting in his professional...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notice by local board to department - Chapter 111, Section 112
  If the board of health of a town has had notice of a case of any disease declared by the department dangerous to the public...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Records of reports of dangerous diseases; notice - Chapter 111, Section 113
  Every board of health shall keep a record of all reports received pursuant to sections one hundred and nine to one hundred and eleven, inclusive,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Forfeiture of claim - Chapter 111, Section 114
  A claim of a town against the commonwealth for reasonable expenses incurred by the board of health in making the provision required by law for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Recovery of expenses - Chapter 111, Section 115
  Expenses incurred by a town in the removal of nuisances or for the preservation of the public health, for which any person is liable, may...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Payment of reasonable expenses; chronically nonresident person defined - Chapter 111, Section 116
  Reasonable expenses incurred by boards of health or by the commonwealth in making the provision required by law for persons infected with smallpox or other...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Hospitalization of persons suffering from chronic rheumatism; rules and regulations - Chapter 111, Section 116A
  The department, subject to rules and regulations approved by the executive office of health and human services or a governmental unit designated by the executive...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment and maintenance of clinics for treatment of venereal diseases; examinations; minors - Chapter 111, Section 117
  For the purpose of providing treatment for persons suffering from venereal diseases, as defined under section six, and who are unable to pay for private...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Discrimination against treatment of venereal diseases - Chapter 111, Section 118
  No discrimination shall be made against the treatment of venereal diseases, as defined under section six, in any general hospital supported by taxation in any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Records pertaining to venereal diseases - Chapter 111, Section 119
  Hospital, dispensary, laboratory and morbidity reports and records pertaining to venereal diseases, as defined under section six, shall not be public records, and the contents...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1948, 120 - Chapter 111, Section 120
  Repealed, 1948,
• Massachusetts General Laws - Treatment of venereal diseases or pulmonary tuberculosis in public charitable or penal institutions; expenses - Chapter 111, Section 121
  An inmate of a public charitable institution or a prisoner in a penal institution who is afflicted with a venereal disease, as defined under section...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Serological test for syphilis of pregnant women - Chapter 111, Section 121A
  A physician attending a pregnant woman in this commonwealth during gestation shall take or cause to be taken a sample of blood of such woman...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Prescription and distribution of drugs to treat Chlamydia in unexamined sexual partners of patients - Chapter 111, Section 121B
  Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the department, in consultation with the board of registration in medicine, shall promulgate regulations authorizing a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Regulations relative to nuisances; examinations - Chapter 111, Section 122
  The board of health shall examine into all nuisances, sources of filth and causes of sickness within its town, or on board of vessels within...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Regulation of domestic water supply; powers of board of health; penalties - Chapter 111, Section 122A
  Upon determination by the board of health that the available supply of water for drinking, culinary and other domestic purposes in any place of habitation,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Abatement by owner; penalty - Chapter 111, Section 123
  Said board shall order the owner or occupant of any private premises, at his own expense, to remove any nuisance, source of filth or cause...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Service of order for abatement - Chapter 111, Section 124
  Such order shall be in writing, and may be served personally on the owner, occupant or his authorized agent by any person authorized to serve...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Removal of nuisance by board - Chapter 111, Section 125
  If the owner or occupant fails to comply with such order, the board may cause the nuisance, source of filth or cause of sickness to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Review of order adjudging the operation of a farm to be a nuisance - Chapter 111, Section 125A
  If, in the opinion of the board of health, a farm or the operation thereof constitutes a nuisance, any action taken by said board to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Location of privy vaults - Chapter 111, Section 126
  If the city council of a city, or a town having a population of more than one thousand, accepts this section, or has accepted corresponding...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Regulations relative to house drainage - Chapter 111, Section 127
  The board of health of a city or town may make and enforce regulations for the public health and safety relative to house drainage and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - State sanitary code; adoption; enforcement; jurisdiction; speedy trial - Chapter 111, Section 127A
  Said department shall adopt, and may from time to time amend, public health regulations to be known as the state sanitary code, which may provide...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Requirement of personal flotation devices for municipal and recreational programs and camps for minor children; determination of swimming ability - Chapter 111, Section 127A1/2
  (a) The department of public health shall adopt rules or regulations requiring municipal and recreational programs and camps for minor children under its jurisdiction to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Dwellings unfit for human habitation; order to vacate or to abate nuisance; removal of occupants; demolition expense, lien; inspection reports; code violations; notices; enforcement proceedings, jurisdiction; appeal - Chapter 111, Section 127B
  Upon a determination by the board of health, or, in the cities of Boston, Worcester and Cambridge, by the commissioner of housing inspection, after examination...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Petition for agreement to remove underground fuel storage tank, media contaminated by home heating oil or lead paint, or to provide proper service by a septic system; costs; authority to evict - Chapter 111, Section 127B1/2
  At any time prior to or during the course of proceedings conducted pursuant to section one hundred and twenty-seven B, resulting solely from contaminated media...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Petition for violation of sanitary code; requisites - Chapter 111, Section 127C
  If the condition of any building or any part thereof used for residential purposes is in violation of the standards of fitness for human habitation...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Entry fee; notice upon offending owner - Chapter 111, Section 127D
  The entry fee for a petition under section one hundred and twenty-seven C shall be two dollars. Upon the filing of such a petition, an...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Copy of report of investigation; admissibility in evidence - Chapter 111, Section 127E
  A copy of the report of the investigation by the department of public health or the board of health, or, in the cities of Boston,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Court order regarding rental payments; disbursement of funds; receiver - Chapter 111, Section 127F
  If the court finds after hearing that the facts are as alleged in said petition, it may by written order authorize the petitioner or any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Removal from district to superior or housing court; transmittal of rents and removal fees - Chapter 111, Section 127G
  At any time after thirty days from the date of a district court’s order authorizing the making of rental payments into court under section one...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1992, 407, Sec. 9 - Chapter 111, Section 127H
  Repealed, 1992, 407, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement of sanitary code; remedies; receiver - Chapter 111, Section 127I
  Upon the filing of a petition to enforce the provisions of the sanitary code, or any civil action concerning violations of the sanitary code by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Petition by receiver to apply for financial assistance; notice and hearing; financial assistance; lien - Chapter 111, Section 127J
  A receiver may petition the court for leave to apply for financial assistance from the commonwealth to supplement funds otherwise available from rents, if he...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Agreement to waive enforcement of sanitary code; validity - Chapter 111, Section 127K
  Any provision of a lease or other rental agreement relating to real property whereby a lessee, tenant or occupant enters into a covenant, agreement or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repairs by tenants of residential premises to cure violations; reimbursement for cost - Chapter 111, Section 127L
  When violations of the standards of fitness for human habitation as established in the state sanitary code, or of other applicable laws, ordinances, by-laws, rules...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1975, 615 - Chapter 111, Section 127M
  Repealed, 1975,
• Massachusetts General Laws - Actions by tenants against owners of residential premises; joinder of certain other persons as parties; liability; exception - Chapter 111, Section 127N
  In actions brought under this chapter against owners of residential premises a tenant may, prior to a hearing on the merits, move to join the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Conveyance of real estate with intent to evade nuisance provisions; penalty - Chapter 111, Section 127O
  Any person who conveys a parcel of real estate with the intent to evade a notice or order, issued pursuant to sections one hundred and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Land covered by subdivision plan; application of state environmental code - Chapter 111, Section 127P
  Whenever a person has submitted a subdivision plan, or a preliminary subdivision plan which is followed within seven months by a definitive plan, or a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1954, 209, Sec. 1 - Chapter 111, Section 128
  Repealed, 1954, 209, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Filling of sites of demolished or removed buildings - Chapter 111, Section 128A
  The board of health may adopt and, from time to time, revise regulations requiring that the site of a demolished or removed building or structure...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1963, 390, Sec. 2 - Chapter 111, Section 128B to 128F
  Repealed, 1963, 390, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Farm labor camps; inspection; certificate; complaints - Chapter 111, Section 128G
  The department shall annually inspect all farm labor camps as defined in the state sanitary code, or, in lieu thereof, may delegate any such annual...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Migrant workers; educational and recreational opportunities; locomotion; visitation rights; regulations; injunctive relief - Chapter 111, Section 128H
  The department of public health shall, as a part of its inspection of a site for a farm labor camp, determine what educational and recreational...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Removal or destruction of nuisance on conviction of owner - Chapter 111, Section 129
  If a person is convicted on an indictment for a common nuisance injurious to the public health, the court may order the nuisance to be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Enjoining nuisance - Chapter 111, Section 130
  The superior court, either before or pending a prosecution for a common nuisance affecting the public health, may enjoin the maintenance of such nuisance until...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Compulsory examination of premises; complaint; warrant - Chapter 111, Section 131
  If the board considers it necessary for preservation of life or health to enter any land, building or premises, or go on board a vessel...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1982, 95 - Chapter 111, Section 132 to 142
  Repealed, 1982,
• Massachusetts General Laws - Pollution or contamination of atmosphere; prevention; regulations; violation; enforcement - Chapter 111, Section 142A
  The department of environmental protection, referred to in this section and in sections one hundred and forty-two B through one hundred and forty-two M, inclusive,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Metropolitan air pollution control district; establishment; composition; powers of department of environmental protection - Chapter 111, Section 142B
  There is hereby established a metropolitan air pollution control district, to consist of the territory and waters comprised within the cities and towns of Arlington,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Future districts; formation - Chapter 111, Section 142C
  Other air pollution control districts similar to that established by section one hundred and forty-two B may be formed upon approval of the department. Each...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Air pollution control districts; standards and plans for implementation; establishment; periodic review; amendment; compliance with minimum federal standards - Chapter 111, Section 142D
  The department, with the approval of the governor, may establish air pollution control districts compatible with such air quality control regions as may be designated...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Air pollution; preventing and controlling by departments, agencies, commissions, authorities and political subdivisions - Chapter 111, Section 142E
  Any department, agency, commission, authority or political subdivision of the commonwealth having control and supervision over any building, installation or other property shall cooperate with...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Discharging excess fuel from aircraft into atmosphere; penalty; definitions - Chapter 111, Section 142F
  Whoever, except in an emergency, allows excess fuel to be discharged into the atmosphere from an aircraft shall be punished by a fine of not...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Burning of Christmas trees restricted - Chapter 111, Section 142G
  Notwithstanding the provisions of sections one hundred and forty-two A and one hundred and forty-two B, any person may burn Christmas trees during the period...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Ceremonial bonfires restricted; permits - Chapter 111, Section 142H
  The city council of a city with the approval of its mayor, or the board of selectmen or town council of a town, may authorize...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Bonfires from July 2 to July 6 authorized - Chapter 111, Section 142I
  Notwithstanding any provision of sections one hundred and forty-two A and one hundred and forty-two B, and in addition to the ceremonial bonfires permitted under...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1998, 490, Sec. 8 - Chapter 111, Section 142J
  Repealed, 1998, 490, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Motor vehicle emissions standards; late models - Chapter 111, Section 142K
  (a) In addition to the provisions of section one hundred and forty-two J authorizing the department of environmental protection to establish and administer setting motor...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Agricultural burning - Chapter 111, Section 142L
  Notwithstanding the provisions of sections one hundred and forty-two A to one hundred and forty-two E, inclusive, the burning of tree prunings, diseased plant materials,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Motor vehicle emissions inspection and repair; definitions; rules and regulations; inspection facilities; waivers; quality assurance program; violations - Chapter 111, Section 142M
  (a) As used in this section, the following words shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly requires otherwise: “Commissioner”, the commissioner of environmental...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fossil fuel-fired electric generation facilities; uniform performance standards - Chapter 111, Section 142N
  For the purpose of preventing, mitigating, or alleviating impacts on the resources of the commonwealth and to the health of its citizens from pollutants emitted...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Motor vehicle fuel dispensing facilities; stage II vapor recovery systems; operation and standards - Chapter 111, Section 142O
  (a) As used in this section, the following words shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: “Motor vehicle fuel dispensing facility”,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Trade or employment attended with noisome and injurious odors; assignment of places; prohibition; appeal - Chapter 111, Section 143
  No trade or employment which may result in a nuisance or be harmful to the inhabitants, injurious to their estates, dangerous to the public health,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Revocation of location assignment; removal of nuisance - Chapter 111, Section 144
  If a place or building so assigned becomes a nuisance by reason of offensive odors or exhalations therefrom, or is otherwise hurtful or dangerous to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Damages - Chapter 111, Section 145
  Whoever is injured in the comfort or enjoyment of his estate by such nuisance may recover in tort the damages sustained thereby.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Orders of prohibition; service - Chapter 111, Section 146
  Orders of prohibition issued under section one hundred and forty-three shall be served by an officer qualified to serve civil process upon the occupant or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appeal from order; notice; trial - Chapter 111, Section 147
  Whoever is aggrieved by an order made under section one hundred and forty-three or one hundred and fifty-two may, within three days after service of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Exercise of trade or employment during pendency of proceedings - Chapter 111, Section 148
  Such trade or employment shall not be exercised contrary to the order while such proceedings are pending, unless specially authorized by the board; and if...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Verdict; effect - Chapter 111, Section 149
  The verdict may alter, affirm or annul the order, and shall be returned to the court for acceptance; and if accepted, shall have the authority...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Damages and costs - Chapter 111, Section 150
  If the order is affirmed by the verdict, the board shall recover costs to the use of the town; if it is annulled and the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Solid waste disposal facilities; maintenance and operation; applications for site assignment - Chapter 111, Section 150A
  As used in this section and in section one hundred and fifty A1/2 the following words shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the following...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Standards and criteria for siting of facilities; rules and regulations - Chapter 111, Section 150A1/2
  The department of environmental protection, in cooperation with the department of public health, shall promulgate rules and regulations for the siting of facilities pursuant to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment of facility site - Chapter 111, Section 150B
  The definition of “facility” in section two of chapter twenty-one D shall apply to this section. Any such facility shall be subject to this section...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Slaughter houses; regulation; public hearing; application of section - Chapter 111, Section 151
  No person shall occupy or use a building for carrying on the business of slaughtering cattle, horses, mules, sheep or other animals, or for a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Prohibition of offensive trades or occupations - Chapter 111, Section 152
  If any buildings or premises are so occupied or used, the department of environmental protection shall, upon application, appoint a time and place for hearing...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Restraint of offensive trades or occupations - Chapter 111, Section 153
  The superior court may restrain the unauthorized occupancy, use or extension of any building or premises occupied or used for the trades or occupations aforesaid,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Killing or rendering of horses; licenses; application; notice to director of animal health; fees - Chapter 111, Section 154
  A person engaged in or desiring to engage in the business of killing horses, or in the rendering of horses or other animals, shall annually...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Licensing of stables in cities and large towns; fees - Chapter 111, Section 155
  No person shall erect, occupy or use for a stable any building in a city, or in a town having more than five thousand inhabitants,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Stables in vicinity of churches - Chapter 111, Section 156
  No person shall in a city occupy or use a building for a livery stable, or a stable for taking or keeping horses and carriages...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalty for violation of Secs. 155 and 156 - Chapter 111, Section 157
  Whoever violates any provision of the two preceding sections or of a regulation or order made thereunder shall be punished by a fine of five...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Licensing of stables in small towns; fees; restraint of erection, occupancy or use of stables - Chapter 111, Section 158
  The selectmen of towns having a population of five thousand or less may license suitable persons to keep more than four horses in specified buildings...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Supervision of inland waters - Chapter 111, Section 159
  The department of environmental protection, in this section and sections one hundred and sixty to one hundred and sixty-six, inclusive, called the department, shall have...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Examination of water supply; assistance to cities, towns and districts for groundwater aquifers and recharge areas - Chapter 111, Section 160
  The department may cause examinations of such waters to be made to ascertain their purity and fitness for domestic use, or the possibility of their...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Cross connections between distribution systems; certification for inspection and testing of backflow prevention devices - Chapter 111, Section 160A
  No physical cross connection shall be maintained between the distribution system of a public water supply, the water of which is used for drinking, domestic...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Water quality violations; orders of department of environmental quality engineering; enforcement - Chapter 111, Section 160B
  The department shall immediately report any violations of standards or regulations regulating the quality of water used for drinking, domestic or culinary purposes to the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Home water treatment devices; definitions applicable to Secs. 160B to 160G - Chapter 111, Section 160C
  As used in this section and sections one hundred and sixty B to one hundred and sixty G, inclusive, the following terms shall, unless the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Analysis of drinking water; disclosure form - Chapter 111, Section 160D
  Any person shall be permitted to test or analyze drinking water for the purpose of selling, leasing, renting or promoting home water treatment devices for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Analysis by uncertified person; penalty - Chapter 111, Section 160E
  A civil penalty of not more than five thousand dollars shall be assessed on any person who is not certified by the department to perform...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Misrepresentations; sale of home water treatment devices - Chapter 111, Section 160F
  Any misleading statement or material misrepresentation made in order to sell, lease, rent or promote for sale, lease, or rental of a home water treatment...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement of Secs. 160C to 160F - Chapter 111, Section 160G
  The department may make such rules and regulations or issue orders requiring such action as it deems necessary to enforce the provisions of sections one...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1961, 48 - Chapter 111, Section 161
  Repealed, 1961,
• Massachusetts General Laws - Removal of causes of pollution; petition; hearing; notice; damages; violation of order - Chapter 111, Section 162
  Upon petition to the department by the mayor of a city or the selectmen of a town, the managing board or officer of any public...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appeal - Chapter 111, Section 163
  Whoever is aggrieved by an order made under section one hundred and sixty or section one hundred and sixty-two may appeal therefrom as provided in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement of orders, rules and regulations - Chapter 111, Section 164
  The supreme judicial or superior court, upon the application of the department or of any party interested, may enforce the orders, rules and regulations of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Entry on premises; compensation of agents; apportionment - Chapter 111, Section 165
  The agents and servants of the department may enter any building, structure or premises to ascertain whether sources of pollution or danger to the water...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1977, 526, Sec. 4 - Chapter 111, Section 166
  Repealed, 1977, 526, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Protection of sources of water supply - Chapter 111, Section 167
  No sewage, drainage, refuse or polluting matter, of such kind and amount as either by itself or in connection with other matter will corrupt or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Prescriptive rights of drainage; application of Sec. 167 - Chapter 111, Section 168
  The preceding section shall not destroy or impair rights acquired by legislative grant prior to July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, or destroy or impair...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Injunction against pollution of water supply - Chapter 111, Section 169
  The supreme judicial or superior court, upon application of the mayor of a city, the selectmen of a town, the managing board or officer of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Willful defilement or corruption of spring or source of water - Chapter 111, Section 170
  Whoever willfully and maliciously defiles or corrupts any spring or other source of water, or reservoir, or destroys or injures any pipe, conductor of water...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Wilful defilement of sources of water supply - Chapter 111, Section 171
  Whoever wilfully deposits excrement or foul or decaying matter in water used for domestic water supply, or upon the shore thereof within five rods of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1975, 384 - Chapter 111, Section 172 173
  Repealed, 1975,
• Massachusetts General Laws - Police employed to protect water supply; powers and duties - Chapter 111, Section 173A
  Police employed by the water board or board of water commissioners of a city, town or water district, a public institution or water company, and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Entry upon premises within water shed of source of water supply - Chapter 111, Section 173B
  Any water board or board of water commissioners of a city, town or water district and any executive officer or agent of any such board...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Driving animal on ice of pond or stream used for domestic water supply - Chapter 111, Section 174
  Whoever, not being engaged in cutting or harvesting ice, or in hauling logs, wood or lumber, drives any animal on the ice of a pond...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Prevention of defilement of domestic water supply by gulls or terns - Chapter 111, Section 174A
  In order to preserve the purity and prevent the pollution of the waters of any reservoir, pond, and stream used for domestic water supply, by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Protection of Charles river from pollution - Chapter 111, Section 175
  The department of environmental protection, in this section called the department, shall make reasonable orders, having due regard for the particular circumstances of each case,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1938, 265, Sec. 17 - Chapter 111, Section 176 to 180
  Repealed, 1938, 265, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement of vaccination of inhabitants of towns - Chapter 111, Section 181
  Boards of health, if in their opinion it is necessary for public health or safety, shall require and enforce the vaccination and revaccination of all...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Vaccination of inmates of institutions supported by aid of commonwealth - Chapter 111, Section 182
  The board of health of a town where any incorporated manufacturing company, infirmary, training or industrial school, hospital or other establishment where the poor or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Exemptions - Chapter 111, Section 183
  Any person over eighteen presenting a certificate, signed by the register of a probate court, that he is under guardianship shall not be subject to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment and maintenance of bacteriological laboratories - Chapter 111, Section 184
  In order to better preserve public health and secure greater accuracy in the diagnosis of communicable diseases, county commissioners may establish and maintain bacteriological laboratories,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certificates of approval relative to bacteriological laboratories; rules and regulations; renewals; fees - Chapter 111, Section 184A
  The department, at the request of any person owning or operating a bacteriological laboratory, may issue a certificate of approval of the performance at such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Blood banks - Chapter 111, Section 184B
  No blood bank, so-called, shall be established and maintained in the commonwealth except by a hospital licensed by the department under the provisions of section...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Donation by minors - Chapter 111, Section 184C
  A minor 17 years of age or older may donate his blood without the prior assent thereto by his parent or guardian. A minor 16...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Disinfecting public mutoscopes and other apparatus - Chapter 111, Section 185
  The proprietor or manager of any place of public amusement or other place where there are provided for public use and entertainment mutoscopes or any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules of instruction, test cards and other appliances - Chapter 111, Section 185A
  The department of public health, after consultation with the department of education, shall prescribe and furnish to school committees suitable rules of instruction, test cards,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Public use of machines requiring application of lips - Chapter 111, Section 186
  No person shall provide for public use or entertainment in any place of public amusement or other place of public resort any so-called lung testing...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Shoe-fitting machines; restrictions on use; penalty - Chapter 111, Section 186A
  No person shall operate or maintain a shoe-fitting device or machine which uses fluoroscopic, X-ray or radiation principles, except for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of “flammable” fabric or related material to be used for children’s sleepwear; penalties - Chapter 111, Section 186B
  It shall be unlawful to sell or offer for sale any fabric or related material or finished piece of clothing which is designed to be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement of chapter - Chapter 111, Section 187
  The supreme judicial or superior court, upon the application of the board of health of a town, may enforce the orders of said board relative...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Disposition of fines and forfeitures - Chapter 111, Section 188
  Fines and forfeitures incurred under the general laws, the special laws applicable to a town, or the ordinances, by-laws and regulations of a town, relative...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application of chapter to cities - Chapter 111, Section 189
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the provisions of this chapter shall apply to cities so far as consistent with their several charters.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 111, Section 189A
  For the purposes of this section and sections one hundred and ninety to one hundred and ninety-nine B, inclusive, the following words shall, unless the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Statewide program; director; advisory committee - Chapter 111, Section 190
  Subject to appropriation, the department shall establish a statewide program for the prevention, screening, diagnosis and treatment of lead poisoning, including elimination of the sources...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reports of lead poisoning; notifications to agencies; records - Chapter 111, Section 191
  Any examining physician, hospital, public health nurse or other diagnosing person or agency shall report to the director the existence and circumstances of each case...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Educational and publicity program - Chapter 111, Section 192
  The director shall institute an educational and publicity program, in order to inform the general public, and particularly parents of children residing in areas of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Field testing and approval of new methods of removing paint and other materials - Chapter 111, Section 192A
  The director shall investigate, field test and approve new methods of removing or covering paint, plaster, or other materials containing dangerous levels of lead that...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Preparation of educational materials - Chapter 111, Section 192B
  The department of public health’s childhood lead poisoning and prevention program shall, subject to appropriation, promote the education of all persons, including parents and property...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Early identification program; examination and reports - Chapter 111, Section 193
  The director shall establish a program for early identification of cases of lead poisoning. Such program shall systematically screen all children under six years of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Detection of sources of lead poisoning; inspection; search warrant; notice; examination of children; reports; records - Chapter 111, Section 194
  The director shall, subject to appropriation, establish a comprehensive program for detection of sources of lead poisoning. Such program shall attempt, to the extent permitted...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1993, 482, Sec. 6 - Chapter 111, Section 194A
  Repealed, 1993, 482, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - State laboratory for lead and lead poisoning detection; specimen analysis; fee; report as prima facie evidence - Chapter 111, Section 195
  The commissioner shall establish, within the Bureau of Institute of Laboratories, a state laboratory for lead and lead poisoning detection. Said laboratory shall analyze specimens...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Prohibited acts; punishment; embargo of personal property - Chapter 111, Section 196
  (a) No person shall apply or cause to be applied any lead-based paint, glaze or other substance to any toy, furniture, cooking, drinking, or eating...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Duty of residential premises owners; interim control measures; abatement or containment of paint, plaster or other accessible structural material containing lead - Chapter 111, Section 197
  (a) Whenever a child under six years of age resides in any premises in which any paint, plaster or other accessible structural material contains dangerous...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notice to prospective purchasers of premises; forms; letter of compliance; civil penalty - Chapter 111, Section 197A
  Prospective purchasers of premises shall be notified about the hazards of lead in paint, plaster or other accessible structural material in premises and the requirements...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Lead paint inspectors; deleaders; licensure - Chapter 111, Section 197B
  (a) The director shall, by July first, nineteen hundred and eighty-eight, establish regulations for the licensing of lead paint inspectors. The director shall prescribe the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Child exhibiting dangerous blood lead level after issuance of letters of compliance or interim control; liability - Chapter 111, Section 197C
  (a) If, after the issuance of a letter of full compliance pursuant to subsection (c) of section one hundred and ninety-seven, a child under the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Secured lenders; liability - Chapter 111, Section 197D
  (a) No secured lender shall be considered an owner for purposes of sections one hundred and eighty-nine A to one hundred and ninety-nine B, inclusive,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Lead abatement loan program - Chapter 111, Section 197E
  There shall be a loan program in the department of housing and community development for lead abatement throughout the commonwealth. Said program shall assist residential...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violations of state sanitary code; enforcement - Chapter 111, Section 198
  Violations of this section shall not constitute violations of the state sanitary code when (i) an owner has received a letter of full compliance, or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Liability of owner of premises; punitive damages - Chapter 111, Section 199
  (a) Except as provided in section one hundred and ninety-seven D, the owner of any premises shall be liable for all damages to a child...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unlawful practices in selling, renting, or leasing premises containing lead in paint, plaster or materials - Chapter 111, Section 199A
  (a) It shall be an unlawful practice for purposes of chapter one hundred and fifty-one B for the owner, lessee, sublessee, real estate broker, assignee,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Exemptions from Secs. 189A to 199A - Chapter 111, Section 199B
  The provisions of sections one hundred and eighty-nine A to one hundred and ninety-nine A, inclusive, shall not apply to any dwelling unit having fewer...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1998, 180, Sec. 4 - Chapter 111, Section 200
  Repealed, 1998, 180, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - First aid training of emergency personnel, including cardiopulmonary resuscitation; standards; refresher course; coordination by department; personnel excepted - Chapter 111, Section 201
  Members of police and fire departments, members of the state police participating in highway patrol, persons appointed permanent or temporary lifeguards by the commonwealth or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fetal deaths; reports; confidentiality; disposition of remains; violations; forms - Chapter 111, Section 202
  As used in this section, “fetal death” means death prior to the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a fetus, irrespective of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Provider misconduct; medical peer review - Chapter 111, Section 203
  (a) The by-laws of every licensed or public hospital and the by-laws of all medical staffs shall contain provisions for reporting conduct by a health...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Confidentiality of proceedings, reports and records; exceptions; immunity - Chapter 111, Section 204
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the proceedings, reports and records of a medical peer review committee shall be confidential and shall be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Information and records necessary to comply with risk management and quality assurance programs; confidentiality; definitions - Chapter 111, Section 205
  (a) As used in this section the following terms shall have the following meanings: “Health care facility”, any entity required to participate in risk management...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Risk factors; wellness programs - Chapter 111, Section 206
  The department shall establish a program to reduce the incidence among the general public of mortality and morbidity from accidents and diseases for which risk...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Seal of approval for wellness programs implemented by businesses - Chapter 111, Section 206A
  (a) The department, in consultation with the division of insurance, shall provide a seal of approval to wellness programs implemented by businesses. In developing criteria...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 111, Section 207
  For the purposes of sections two hundred and eight to two hundred and fourteen, inclusive, the following words shall, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Licenses; necessity; expiration; fees; inspection of facilities; violations; revocation; appeals - Chapter 111, Section 208
  No access shall be provided to any tanning device by a tanning facility until said facility has been granted a license therefor by the board...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Statement of warning and notice; posting; form; acknowledgment by customer - Chapter 111, Section 209
  A tanning facility shall give each customer a written statement of warning and shall post a notice in a conspicuous place in every area in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Presence of operators; protective eyewear required; limitation of exposure and temperature - Chapter 111, Section 210
  A tanning facility shall at all times during operating hours have an operator present who is sufficiently knowledgeable in the correct operation of the tanning...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Minors; parental consent; accompaniment by parent or guardian - Chapter 111, Section 211
  No person fourteen years of age to seventeen years of age, inclusive, shall use a tanning device without the prior written consent of a parent...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Promotional material; liability not affected by warnings; report of injuries - Chapter 111, Section 212
  No tanning facility shall claim or distribute promotional material that claims that use of a tanning device is safe and free from risk. The liability...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Access to facilities for inspections; rules and regulations; phototherapy devices excluded - Chapter 111, Section 213
  The board of health, local health agent, or department shall have access at all reasonable times to any tanning facility for the purposes of inspecting...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violations; fines - Chapter 111, Section 214
  Whoever violates any provision of sections two hundred and seven to two hundred and thirteen, inclusive, or any rule or regulation of the department promulgated...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Pilot program for exchange of needles - Chapter 111, Section 215
  The department of public health is hereby authorized to promulgate rules and regulations for the implementation of not more than ten pilot programs for the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fragrance advertising inserts; microencapsulated fragrance; penalty - Chapter 111, Section 216
  All fragrance advertising inserts contained in a newspaper, magazine, mailing, or other periodically printed material shall contain only microencapsulated oils. Glue tabs or binders shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Office of patient protection; duties - Chapter 111, Section 217
  [ Text of section effective until January 1, 2014. Repealed by 2013, 35, Sec. 7. See 2013, 35, Sec. 104.](a) There is hereby established within...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Guidelines for human leukocyte or histocompatibility locus antigen testing - Chapter 111, Section 218
  (a) The commissioner, in collaboration with the commissioner of insurance, shall establish guidelines, criteria, and rules or regulations, as may be necessary, to ensure that...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Meningitis immunization awareness - Chapter 111, Section 219
  The commissioner shall adopt regulations requiring a public or private secondary school, college, university, child care center or youth camp to distribute to the parent...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Multidisciplinary advisory board; training and examination of sexual assault nurse examiners - Chapter 111, Section 220
  (a) As used in this section, the following words, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, shall have the following meanings:— “Forensic examination”, the collection, preservation...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Breastfeeding in a public place - Chapter 111, Section 221
  (a) A mother may breastfeed her child in any public place or establishment or place which is open to and accepts or solicits the patronage...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Interscholastic athletic head injury safety training program; written authorization required for participation in extracurricular athletic activity following unconsciousness or diagnosis of concussion; maintenance of records showing compliance with section; liability - Chapter 111, Section 222
  (a) The department shall direct the division of violence and injury prevention to develop an interscholastic athletic head injury safety training program in which all...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nutritional standards for sale or provision of foods or beverages in public schools; school wellness advisory committees; food safety inspections at public schools - Chapter 111, Section 223
  (a) As used in this section, the following words shall, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, have the following meanings:— “Competitive foods or beverages”, all...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Commission on falls prevention; members; duties - Chapter 111, Section 224
  There shall be a commission on falls preventions within the department. The commission shall consist of the commissioner of public health or the commissioner’s designee,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Presenting claim for payment for anatomic pathology services - Chapter 111, Section 225
  (a) For the purposes of this section, the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings: “Anatomic pathology service”, histopathology,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Mandatory overtime for nurses prohibited; exception for emergency situations - Chapter 111, Section 226
  For purposes of this section, “mandatory overtime” shall mean any hours worked by a nurse in a hospital setting to deliver patient care, beyond the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Palliative care and end-of-life options; distribution of information regarding availability - Chapter 111, Section 227
  (a) As used in this section the following terms shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings: “Appropriate”, consistent with applicable legal,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Advance disclosure of allowed amount or charge for admission, procedure or service - Chapter 111, Section 228
  [Text of section added by 2012, 224, Sec. 103 effective January 1, 2014. See 2012, 224, Sec. 285.] (a) Prior to an admission, procedure or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Distribution of information regarding benefits of annual immunization against influenza for children - Chapter 111, Section 229
  [Text of section added by 2012, 431. See also, Section 229 added by 2012, 371, Sec. 1 effective July 1, 2013, below.] (a) The commissioner...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Folic acid awareness initiative - Chapter 111, Section 230
  [ Text of section added by 2014, 155 effective September 28, 2014.] The department shall administer a folic acid awareness initiative to increase public awareness...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Limitation on patient assignments per nurse in intensive care units; development and certification of acuity tool - Chapter 111, Section 231
  [ Text of section added by 2014, 155 effective September 28, 2014.] For the purposes of this section, the term "intensive care units'' shall have...

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