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DDS 115 CMR: Standards and Services

*115 CMR 1.00: Scope and authority 
*115 CMR 2.00: Definitions 
*115 CMR 3.00: Administration 
*115 CMR 4.00: Records 
*115 CMR 5.00: Standards to promote dignity 
*115 CMR 6.00: Eligibility, individual support planning and appeals 
*115 CMR 7.00: Standards for all services and supports 
*115 CMR 8.00: Licensure and certification of providers 
*115 CMR 9.00: Investigations and reporting responsibilities  
*115 CMR 10.00: Research 
*115 CMR 12.00: National criminal background checks 
*115 CMR 13.00: Incident reporting 

MGL Chapter 123B: Mental Retardation

Section 1: Definitions 
Section 2: Regulations 
Section 3: Transfers 
Section 4: Periodic review 
Section 5: Retention of persons 
Section 6: Voluntary admissions; consultation with attorney; discharge 
Section 7: Voluntary admissions; withdrawal; notice; examination 
Section 8: Transportation of persons with an intellectual disability; restraint 
Section 9: Mailing privileges; visitation rights; legal and civil right 
Section 10: Legal capacity of persons admitted or committed 
Section 11: Guardian or conservator; appointment 
Section 12: Deposit of funds held in trust for residents; unclaimed funds and personal property; fiduciaries 
Section 13: Administration of estate of deceased resident 
Section 14: Violent or unnatural death of residents; notice to district attorney 
Section 15: Instruction and education; work programs; sale of work products 
Section 16: Charges for care of persons in facilities 
Section 17: Records; inspection 

MGL Chapter 19B: DDS Authority

Section 1: Creation; powers of department and commissioner 
Section 2: Commissioner; appointment; qualifications; appointments by commissioner; report; salary 
Section 3: Deputy commissioner; appointment; duties; qualifications 
Section 4: Assistant, associate or deputy commissioners; appointment; duties; qualifications 
Section 5: Legal counsel 
Section 6: Program for training of residents in professional disciplines 
Section 7: State facilities under department control 
Section 8: Superintendents or directors; vacancies; appointments; qualifications; officers 
Section 9: Repealed, 1996, 58, Sec. 13 
Section 10: Crimes committed by or upon persons on facility premises or persons in care of facility 
Section 11: Repealed, 1996, 58, Sec. 14 
Section 12: Community intellectual disability services 
Section 12A: Comprehensive program of community developmental disability services 
Section 13: Development and maintenance of community intellectual disability services and community developmental disability services 
Section 14: Rules and regulations 
Section 15: Residential or day care services; licenses 
Section 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 
Section 16: Intellectual disability facility employees; civil service exemption 
Section 17: Transportation for persons with an intellectual disability or a developmental disability; reimbursements for costs 
Section 18: Interagency agreements with commissioner of mental health or office of Medicaid for coordinated regulation or management of certain services 
Section 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 p 
Section 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 
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