General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 19 Department of Mental Health
- Massachusetts General Laws - Creation; powers of department and commissioner; safety symposium - Chapter 19, Section 1
There shall be a department of mental health, in this chapter called the department, and a commissioner of mental health who shall have and shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Commissioner; appointment; qualifications; appointments by commissioner; report; salary - Chapter 19, Section 2
The secretary of health and human services shall appoint, with the approval of the governor, a commissioner of mental health who shall serve at the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Deputy commissioner; appointment; duties; qualifications - Chapter 19, Section 3
The commissioner shall appoint, with the approval of the secretary of health and human services, a person qualified to serve as deputy commissioner of mental...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Assistant, deputy or associate commissioners; appointment; duties; qualifications - Chapter 19, Section 4
The commissioner shall appoint, subject to appropriation, such other assistant, deputy or associate commissioners as the commissioner may determine to be necessary or desirable to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Legal counsel - Chapter 19, Section 5
The commissioner shall appoint a member of the Massachusetts bar to serve as legal counsel to the commissioner. Such legal counsel shall devote full time...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Program for training of residents in psychiatry and other professional disciplines - Chapter 19, Section 6
The commissioner may establish a program for the training of residents in psychiatry and any other professional disciplines as required by departmental programs. Such residents...
- Massachusetts General Laws - State facilities under department control; admission - Chapter 19, Section 7
The state facilities under the control of the department shall be such state hospitals, mental health centers and other mental health facilities as the commissioner...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Superintendents or directors; vacancies; appointments; qualifications; officers - Chapter 19, Section 8
When a vacancy occurs in the positions of superintendent of a state hospital of the department or director of any other mental health facility of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Boards of trustees for state hospitals - Chapter 19, Section 8A
The governor shall appoint a board of trustees for each of the following state hospitals: Medfield, Taunton, Westborough and Worcester. A majority of the members...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1996, 58, Sec. 12 - Chapter 19, Section 9
Repealed, 1996, 58, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes committed by or upon persons on facility premises or persons in care of facility - Chapter 19, Section 10
The superintendent of any state hospital or the director of any mental health facility of the department, who has reason to believe that a crime...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Mental health advisory council - Chapter 19, Section 11
There shall be a mental health advisory council consisting of fifteen persons to be appointed by the secretary of health and human services, with the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Disclosure of financial interest in department contracts by human rights advisory committee members - Chapter 19, Section 11A
Nothing in section 7 of chapter 268A shall prevent a person who has a financial interest, directly or indirectly, in a contract made by the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Community mental health services - Chapter 19, Section 12
The department shall establish a comprehensive program of community mental health services which shall include state hospitals, clinics, comprehensive centers and other facilities of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Community mental health area directors - Chapter 19, Section 13
The commissioner shall, after consultation with the area board, appoint in each community mental health area an area director. Such area director shall have such...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Community mental health area boards - Chapter 19, Section 14
In each area established under section twelve there shall be a community mental health area board, hereinafter called the area board, which shall be an...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Duties and powers of area boards - Chapter 19, Section 15
The area board shall have the following duties and powers: (a) to act as the representative of the citizens of the area; (b) to advise...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Development and maintenance of community mental health services - Chapter 19, Section 16
The department shall develop and maintain, subject to appropriation, and in accordance with its standards, a comprehensive, area-based system to provide community mental health services,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Area advisory committees - Chapter 19, Section 17
The area board may appoint such advisory committees as it may from time to time deem necessary. The members of such committees shall serve for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations - Chapter 19, Section 18
The department may from time to time adopt such rules and regulations as it deems necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter, and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Residential or day care services; licenses - Chapter 19, Section 19
(a) The department shall issue for a term of two years, and may renew for like terms, a license, subject to revocation by it for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Mental health facility employees; civil service exemption - Chapter 19, Section 20
Stationary engineers, steam firemen, school teachers and head farmers employed in mental health facilities of the department and, except as otherwise provided by the civil...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Interagency agreements with developmental services department - Chapter 19, Section 21
Subject to approval by the secretary of health and human services, the commissioner may enter into interagency agreements with the commissioner of developmental services for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Consultation of commissioner for behavioral health services for children - Chapter 19, Section 22
The commissioner of mental health shall be consulted on the design and implementation of the commonwealth’s behavioral health services for children, under guidelines established by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Children’s behavioral research center; powers and duties; annual report - Chapter 19, Section 23
There shall be, within the department of mental health, a children’s behavioral health research center, the primary mission of which shall be to ensure that...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notification of parent or guardian of child receiving inpatient psychiatric services - Chapter 19, Section 24
If the department is notified that a child who is eligible for department services is receiving inpatient psychiatric services, the department shall contact the child’s...
Last modified: September 11, 2015