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Chapter 19B

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 19B

Department of Developmental Services

1Creation; powers of department and commissioner 2Commissioner; appointment; qualifications; appointments by commissioner; report; salary 3Deputy commissioner; appointment; duties; qualifications 4Assistant, associate or deputy commissioners; appointment; duties; qualifications 5Legal counsel 6Program for training of residents in professional disciplines 7State facilities under department control 8Superintendents or directors; vacancies; appointments; qualifications; officers 10Crimes committed by or upon persons on facility premises or persons in care of facility 12Community intellectual disability services 12AComprehensive program of community developmental disability services 13Development and maintenance of community intellectual disability services and community developmental disability services 14Rules and regulations 15Residential or day care services; licenses 15ALicense 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 16Intellectual disability facility employees; civil service exemption 17Transportation for persons with an intellectual disability or a developmental disability; reimbursements for costs 18Interagency agreements with commissioner of mental health or office of Medicaid for coordinated regulation or management of certain services 19Fingerprint-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 20Criminal 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