General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 120 Department of Youth Services and Massachusetts Training Schools
- Massachusetts General Laws - Corporate status of department of youth services; holding and investing trust funds - Chapter 120, Section 1
The department of youth services shall be a corporation for the purpose of taking, holding and investing in trust for the commonwealth, subject to section...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Management, government and care of industrial schools; employment of expert personnel by director - Chapter 120, Section 2
The department of youth services shall have the management, government and care of the Lyman school for boys at Westborough, the industrial school for girls...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1969, 838, Sec. 29 - Chapter 120, Section 2A
Repealed, 1969, 838, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Appointment of superintendents, chaplains and physicians - Chapter 120, Section 3
The commissioner of youth services shall from time to time appoint a superintendent, chaplains and a physician of each of said schools and institutions, and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations; by-laws - Chapter 120, Section 4
The commissioner of youth services shall establish rules, regulations, and by-laws for the government of each institution and shall see that its affairs are conducted...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1969, 838, Sec. 32 - Chapter 120, Section 4A
Repealed, 1969, 838, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Examination and study of children committed; re-examinations; records; discharge - Chapter 120, Section 5
(a) When a person has been committed to the department of youth services, it shall, under rules established by it, forthwith examine and study him...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Liberty under supervision; confinement; reconfinement; revocation or modification of order; discharge - Chapter 120, Section 6
When a person has been committed to the department of youth services, it may after an objective consideration of all available information— (a) Permit him...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Correction of socially harmful tendencies - Chapter 120, Section 6A
As a means of correcting the socially harmful tendencies of a person committed to it, the department of youth services may— (a) Require participation by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Powers and duties of superintendent - Chapter 120, Section 7
The superintendent of each school or other institution, with the subordinate officers, shall have general charge of and be responsible for the welfare and custody...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bond and accounts of superintendents; accounting to commissioner of youth services - Chapter 120, Section 8
Each superintendent shall before entering upon his duties give bond to the commonwealth, with sureties approved by the governor and council, in such sum as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rogers fund - Chapter 120, Section 9
The superintendent of the industrial school for girls, under the direction of the commissioner of youth services, shall purchase books with the income and profits...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Use of public or private facilities, institutions and agencies; control; acceptance and control of delinquent children; inspection; effect of placement of person in or release from institution or control by department - Chapter 120, Section 10
(a) For the purpose of carrying out its duties and effectuating the decisions of the department of youth services with respect to the classification, placement...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1949, 593, Sec. 2 - Chapter 120, Section 10A
Repealed, 1949, 593, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Places for detention and diagnosis; treatment and training facilities; facilities to aid persons given conditional releases; forest or farm school camps - Chapter 120, Section 11
When funds are available for the purpose, the commissioner of youth services may (a) establish and operate places for detention and diagnosis of all persons...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Release under supervision; placement into families or homes - Chapter 120, Section 12
The department may direct release under supervision at any time, and may place children in its custody in their usual homes or in any situation...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Escape; breach of parole; arrest; detention - Chapter 120, Section 13
The department may issue a warrant for the arrest of any person committed to it who has escaped from a facility or who has been...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Compensation for property damage caused by inmates; notice of damage; claim; filing - Chapter 120, Section 13A
Upon written request of the department, there shall be paid out of the state treasury, from such funds as may be available therefor, to any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Applications for new commitments for mentally ill, developmentally disabled or sexually dangerous persons - Chapter 120, Section 14
Whenever the department finds that any person committed to it is mentally ill, within the meaning of chapter one hundred and twenty-three, developmentally disabled or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Transfers from Massachusetts reformatory and reformatory for women - Chapter 120, Section 15
[ Text of section effective until September 18, 2013. For text effective September 18, 2013, see below.]With the consent of the department, the commissioner of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Discharge - Chapter 120, Section 16
Every person committed to the department until the age of eighteen as a delinquent child, if not already discharged, shall be discharged when he reaches...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Control beyond age limit; persons physically dangerous to public - Chapter 120, Section 17
Whenever the department is of the opinion that discharge of a person from its control at the age limit stated in section sixteen would be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of application for review of order; hearing; appointment of counsel; court order - Chapter 120, Section 18
If the department applies to the court for review of an order as provided in section seventeen, the court shall notify the person whose liberty...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Continued control; later discharge; transfer to appropriate institutions - Chapter 120, Section 19
When an order of the department is confirmed as provided in section eighteen, the control of the department over the person shall continue, subject to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1996, 200, Sec. 22 - Chapter 120, Section 20
Repealed, 1996, 200, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Effect of commitment on application for public service; discharge; restoration of civil rights; records; inspection; consent; evidence in other proceedings - Chapter 120, Section 21
Commitment to the care of the department of a delinquent child or youthful offender shall not operate to disqualify said child in any future examination,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Inquiry into effectiveness of treatment methods; information; annual report; contents - Chapter 120, Section 22
The department shall conduct continuing inquiry into the effectiveness of the treatment methods it employs in seeking the reformation of juvenile and youthful offenders. To...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Power of department to act as guardian of children - Chapter 120, Section 23
The department may act as guardian for a child under 18 years of age in its charge who has neither parent living, or of whom...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Disposition of unclaimed money held for former ward; records - Chapter 120, Section 23A
Annually on or before November thirtieth, the department shall pay to the state treasurer all unclaimed money held by it for the benefit of any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Expenditure of gifts - Chapter 120, Section 24
The department may expend any money given for the purpose in erecting houses or other buildings on the land of the commonwealth at Lancaster, for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Children committed by United States courts - Chapter 120, Section 25
The provisions of this chapter relative to commitment to the care of the department shall extend to boys and girls committed by authority of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Escape; attempted escape; aiding or assisting - Chapter 120, Section 26
Whoever escapes, or attempts to escape from the department or aids or assists a child in the custody of the department to escape or attempt...
Last modified: September 11, 2015