Chapter 122

Section 1. The department of public health, in this chapter called the department, shall have general supervision of the Tewksbury hospital; and may delegate any of its powers and duties to and execute any of its functions by agents appointed for the purpose. Subject to appropria…

Section 10. The trustees shall have and exercise the same powers relative to patients and their property as towns and boards of public welfare have relative to persons supported or relieved by them, and the same powers as said boards to return patients of said hospital to the pla…

Section 11. The superintendent, subject to the rules and regulations of the hospital, shall receive any person sent with a proper certificate from the department of transitional assistance, or from the department of public health, or from a board of health, or from the institutio…

Section 12. If a person, who has received a certificate as described in section eleven, desires to be sent to any state or place where he resides, or to friends willing to support him, the department of transitional assistance, on the advice of the department of public health, ma…

Section 13. The department may, if expedient, remove any person infected with a disease dangerous to the public health, who is maintained or liable to be maintained by the commonwealth, to the Tewksbury hospital, or may provide such place of reception for such person as is judged…

Section 14. Subject to such rules and regulations as the department may prescribe, any person who is a resident of the commonwealth and is affected with any disease, mental illness, mental retardation or suffers any other mental disability, or smallpox, or other diseases dangerou…

Section 15. The superintendent, with the consent of the trustees, may contract with any person for the employment of any patient of the said hospital in any kind of lawful labor for such wages or on such terms as the superintendent and trustees approve. If a contract is so made, …

Section 16. The kindred liable by law to towns for expenses in supporting such persons shall in like manner be liable to the commonwealth for any expense incurred for such persons; and the department may adopt the same measures and institute like proceedings for the recovery of s…

Section 2. There shall be a board of trustees of the Tewksbury Hospital serving in the department consisting of seven persons, three of whom shall annually in June be appointed by the governor for three years, except that in the year nineteen hundred and sixty and every third yea…

Section 22. A treasurer of a savings bank, national bank, trust company, co-operative bank, benefit association, credit union, insurance company or safe deposit company who, upon written request, signed by an officer of the department of public health, unreasonably refuses to inf…

Section 23. Any patient of Tewksbury hospital who has in his possession, within or outside the precincts thereof, any liquid or other article with intent to consume the same as an inebriant, or to convey, give, sell or deliver the same to any other patient thereof for such consum…

Section 3. The trustees of the Tewksbury hospital, in this chapter called the trustees, shall hold meetings monthly at the hospital. One trustee shall visit the hospital at least once a week. The commissioner of the department, with the approval of the public health council, shal…

Section 4. The trustees shall, with the approval of the department, make rules and regulations for the proper management and government of said hospital, and shall see to their enforcement.

Section 5. The trustees shall be a corporation for the purpose of taking and holding, by them and their successors, in the name of the commonwealth, and in accordance with the terms thereof, any grant or devise of land or any gift or bequest of money or other personal property ma…

Section 6. The superintendent of the Tewksbury hospital may deposit in any bank or trust company within the commonwealth or on paid-up shares and accounts of and in co-operative banks, funds belonging to patients and funds deposited by their relatives or friends to be used for th…

Section 7. So much of any funds known as ''Patients' Funds'' as represents monies belonging to, or deposited for the benefit of, former patients of said hospital, which shall have remained unclaimed for more than seven years, shall be paid by the superintendent thereof to the sta…

Section 8. Property known as ''Patients' Valuables'', belonging to, or deposited for the benefit of, former patients of said hospital, which shall have remained unclaimed for more than one year, shall be disposed of as hereinafter provided, by the superintendent thereof and a rep…

Section 9. Any bank book representing a deposit account in a savings bank or trust company within the commonwealth, which belongs to a former patient of said hospital and shall have remained unclaimed for more than two years in the custody of the superintendent thereof, may be pr…