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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Section 9: Repealed, 1996, 58, Sec. 13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Section 11: Repealed, 1996, 58, Sec. 14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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