General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 19B Department of Developmental Services

• Massachusetts General Laws - Creation; powers of department and commissioner - Chapter 19B, Section 1
  There shall be a department of developmental services, in this chapter called the department, and a commissioner of developmental services who shall have and shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Commissioner; appointment; qualifications; appointments by commissioner; report; salary - Chapter 19B, Section 2
  The secretary of health and human services shall appoint, with the approval of the governor, a commissioner of mental retardation who shall serve at the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Deputy commissioner; appointment; duties; qualifications - Chapter 19B, 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 developmental...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Assistant, associate or deputy commissioners; appointment; duties; qualifications - Chapter 19B, Section 4
  The commissioner shall, subject to appropriation, appoint such other assistant, associate or deputy commissioners as the commissioner may determine to be necessary or desirable to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Legal counsel - Chapter 19B, 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 professional disciplines - Chapter 19B, Section 6
  The commissioner may establish a program for the training of residents in professional disciplines as required by departmental programs. Such residents shall be eligible for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - State facilities under department control - Chapter 19B, Section 7
  The state facilities under the control of the department shall be the state schools, and such other mental retardation facilities as the commissioner from time...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Superintendents or directors; vacancies; appointments; qualifications; officers - Chapter 19B, Section 8
  When a vacancy occurs in the position of superintendent of a state school of the department, or of director of any other mental retardation facility...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1996, 58, Sec. 13 - Chapter 19B, Section 9
  Repealed, 1996, 58, Sec.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 19B, Section 10
  The superintendent of any state school, or the director of any intellectual disability facility of the department, who has reason to believe that a crime...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1996, 58, Sec. 14 - Chapter 19B, Section 11
  Repealed, 1996, 58, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Community intellectual disability services - Chapter 19B, Section 12
  The department shall establish a comprehensive program of community intellectual disability services which shall include state schools and other facilities of the department and shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Development and maintenance of community intellectual disability services - Chapter 19B, Section 13
  The department shall develop and maintain, subject to appropriation and in accordance with its standards, comprehensive community intellectual disability services including specialized services for both...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations - Chapter 19B, Section 14
  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 19B, Section 15
  (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 - Intellectual disability facility employees; civil service exemption - Chapter 19B, Section 16
  Stationary engineers, steam firemen, school teachers and head farmers employed in intellectual disability facilities of the department and, except as otherwise provided by the civil...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Transportation for mentally retarded persons; reimbursements for costs - Chapter 19B, Section 17
  The department shall provide transportation for mentally retarded persons with respect to educational, habilitational or day care services provided pursuant to section thirteen. The department...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Interagency agreements with mental health department - Chapter 19B, Section 18
  [ Text of section effective until July 1, 2013. For text effective July 1, 2013, see below.]Subject to approval by the secretary of health and...

Last modified: September 11, 2015