Massachusetts Chapter 19B — Department of Developmental Services
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- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 19B, § 1— Creation; powers of department and commissioner
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 19B, § 2— Commissioner; appointment; qualifications; appointments by commissioner; report; salary
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 19B, § 3— Deputy commissioner; appointment; duties; qualifications
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 19B, § 4— Assistant, associate or deputy commissioners; appointment; duties; qualifications
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 19B, § 5— Legal counsel
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 19B, § 6— Program for training of residents in professional disciplines
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 19B, § 7— State facilities under department control
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 19B, § 8— Superintendents or directors; vacancies; appointments; qualifications; officers
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 19B, § 9— Repealed, 1996, 58, Sec. 13
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 19B, § 10— Crimes committed by or upon persons on facility premises or persons in care of facility
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 19B, § 11— Repealed, 1996, 58, Sec. 14
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 19B, § 12— Community intellectual disability services
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 19B, § 12A— Comprehensive program of community developmental disability services
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 19B, § 13— Development and maintenance of community intellectual disability services and community developmental disability services
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 19B, § 14— Rules and regulations
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 19B, § 15— Residential or day care services; licenses
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 19B, § 15A— License for program offering residential or day care services to the public and providing treatment for persons with a developmental disability; standards and requirements; protection of individuals served by program from exploitation
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 19B, § 16— Intellectual disability facility employees; civil service exemption
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 19B, § 17— Transportation for persons with an intellectual disability or a developmental disability; reimbursements for costs
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 19B, § 18— Interagency agreements with commissioner of mental health or office of Medicaid for coordinated regulation or management of certain services
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 19B, § 19— Fingerprint-based checks to be conducted on applicants seeking license for department's client population residential or day care services or for other agency serving department's client population; individuals with unsupervised contact with persons with intellectual or developmental disability
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 19B, § 20— Criminal offender record information checks to be conducted on persons providing residential or support services with potential for unsupervised contact with persons with intellectual or developmental disability; fingerprint submissions