Massachusetts Code — 123
Browse 43 sections in division 123 of the Massachusetts code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 1. Definitions
- § 2. Regulations
- § 2A. Geographically-isolated communities; factors to be considered by department when contracting for services to be established by regulation
- § 3. Transfers; notice; emergencies
- § 4. Periodic review; notice
- § 5. Commitment or retention hearings; right to counsel; medical examination; notice
- § 6. Retention of persons; validity of orders; hearing
- § 7. Commitment and retention of dangerous persons; petition; notice; hearing
- § 8. Proceedings to commit dangerous persons; notice; hearing; orders; jurisdiction
- § 8B. Treatment of committed persons with antipsychotic medication; petition; notice; hearing; guardian
- § 9. Review of matters of law; application for discharge; notice; hearing
- § 10. Voluntary admissions; consultation with attorney; discharge; outpatients; veterans
- § 11. Voluntary admissions; withdrawal; notice; examination; retention
- § 12. Emergency restraint and hospitalization of persons posing risk of serious harm by reason of mental illness
- § 13. Transfer of dangerous males to Bridgewater state hospital; retention period; further commitment; procedure
- § 14. Transfers from Bridgewater state hospital to other facilities
- § 15. Competence to stand trial or criminal responsibility; examination; period of observation; reports; hearing; commitment; delinquents
- § 16. Hospitalization of persons incompetent to stand trial or not guilty by reason of mental illness; examination period; commitment; hearing; restrictions; dismissal of criminal charges
- § 17. Periodic review of incompetence to stand trial; petition; hearing; continued treatment; defense to charges; release
- § 18. Hospitalization of mentally ill prisoners; examination; reports; hearing; commitment; petition for transfer to inpatient psychiatric facility or unit licensed or operated by the department of mental health or to Bridgewater state hospital; voluntary admission; reduction of sentence; discharge
- § 18A. Facility residents; contribution towards cost of counsel
- § 19. Parties or witnesses; determination of mental condition
- § 20. Extradition of mental institution escapees
- § 21. Transportation of mentally ill persons; restraint
- § 22. Civil liability of physicians, qualified advanced practice registered nurses, qualified psychologists, qualified psychiatric nurse mental health clinic specialists, police officers and licensed independent clinical social workers
- § 23. Rights of persons receiving services from programs or facilities of department of mental health
- § 23A. Competent interpreter services in hospitals which provide acute psychiatric services
- § 24. Legal capacity of persons admitted or committed
- § 25. Guardian or conservator; appointment
- § 26. Deposit of funds held in trust for inpatients or residents; unclaimed funds and personal property; fiduciaries
- § 27. Administration of estate of deceased inpatient or resident
- § 28. Violent or unnatural death of patients; notice to district attorney
- § 29. Instruction and education; work programs; sale of work products
- § 30. Unauthorized absence of patients; notification of police, et al.; return
- § 31. Medicine and drugs; indigent patients
- § 32. Charges for care of persons in facilities
- § 33. Expenses of apprehension, examination, hearing, commitment or delivery; certification; audit; payment; fees
- § 34. Commitment or transfer to Veterans Administration or other federal agency
- § 35. Commitment of alcoholics or substance abusers
- § 36. Patient records; inspection; maintenance and retention
- § 36A. Court records of examination or commitment; privacy
- § 36B. Duty to warn patient's potential victims; cause of action
- § 36C. Transmission of committed person's name and nonclinical, identifying information to department of criminal justice information services; prohibition of committed person from being issued firearm identification card or license to carry; petition for relief