Massachusetts Statutes

Section 2. (a) There shall be within the department a separate fund to be known as the Housing Innovations Trust Fund. The department shall administer the fund for the purpose of making grants and loans to public or quasi-public entities to facilitate the production and retention…

Section 3. (a) The fund shall finance low and no interest loans, grants, subsidies, credit enhancements and other financial assistance for alternative forms of rental and ownership housing; provided, however, that assistance shall be the minimum amount necessary to make a project…

Section 4. For 120 days after the expiration of affordability restrictions on housing assisted under this chapter, the department or its assignee, who is a qualified developer selected pursuant to the terms of this section under the guidelines of the department, shall have an opt…

Section 5. The department shall promulgate regulations for the implementation, administration and enforcement of this chapter.

Section 6. The department shall annually file a report with the house and senate committees on ways and means, the joint committee on housing and the joint committee on bonding, capital expenditures and state assets detailing all expenditures from the fund including, but not limi…

Section 1. As used in this chapter the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— ''Area median income'', income as determined, from time to time, by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. ''Departme…

Section 2. (a) There shall be within the department a separate fund to be known as the Housing Stabilization and Investment Trust Fund. The department shall administer the fund and shall ensure that funds are distributed among urban, suburban and rural areas with a particular emp…

Section 3. (a) The fund shall finance low and no-interest loans, grants, subsidies, credit enhancements and other financial assistance for rental and ownership housing; provided, that any assistance provided shall be the minimum amount necessary to make a project feasible; provid…

Section 4. For 120 days after the expiration of affordability restrictions on housing assisted under this section, the department or its assignee, who is a qualified developer selected pursuant to the terms of this section under the guidelines of the department, shall have an opt…

Section 5. The department shall promulgate regulations for the implementation, administration and enforcement of this chapter.

Section 6. The department shall annually file a report with the house and senate committees on ways and means, the joint committee on housing and the joint committee on bonding, capital expenditures and state assets detailing all expenditures from the fund including, but not limi…

Section 1. As used in this chapter the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:- ''Area median income'', income as determined by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. ''Department'', the executive …

Section 2. (a) There shall be within the department a separate fund to be known as the Capital Improvement and Preservation Trust Fund. The department shall administer the fund for the purpose of preserving and improving existing privately-owned, state or federally-assisted housi…

Section 3. The department, in consultation with nonprofit organizations, the Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation established in chapter 40H, the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency established in chapter 708 of the acts of 1966 and the Massachusetts Housing Par…

Section 4. The department shall promulgate regulations for the implementation, administration and enforcement of this chapter.

Section 5. The department shall annually file a report with the house and senate committees on ways and means, the joint committee on housing and the joint committee on bonding, capital expenditures and state assets detailing all expenditures from the fund, including, but not lim…

Section 1. As used in this chapter, the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings: ''Chronically homeless'', a person who has been homeless for at least 1 year or has been repeatedly homeless. ''Executive office'', the execu…

Section 2. (a) There shall be a Supportive Housing Pool Fund to support the production of permanent supportive housing. The fund shall be administered by the executive office directly or through contracts with 1 or more of the following administering agencies: (i) the Community E…

Section 3. Funds expended pursuant to this chapter shall be in the form of grants, loans or other financial assistance to projects and organizations that shall provide stable housing options and supportive services to residents of permanent supportive housing, which may include, …

Section 4. The executive office may promulgate regulations for the implementation, administration and enforcement of this chapter and may, in consultation with the executive office of health and human services, the executive office of aging and independence, the department of chi…

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…

Section 1. The following words as used in this section and sections two to thirty-seven, inclusive, shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the following meanings: ''Commissioner'', the commissioner of mental health. ''Department'', the department of mental health. ''D…

Section 10. (a) Pursuant to departmental regulations on admission procedures, the superintendent may receive and retain on a voluntary basis any person providing the person is in need of care and treatment and providing the admitting facility is suitable for such care and treatme…

Section 11. Any person retained in a facility under the provisions of paragraph (a) of section 10 shall be free to leave such facility at any time, and a parent or guardian who requested the admission of such person may withdraw such person at any time, upon giving written notice…

Section 12. (a) A physician who is licensed pursuant to section 2 of chapter 112, an advanced practice registered nurse authorized to practice as such under regulations promulgated pursuant to section 80B of said chapter 112, a qualified psychologist licensed pursuant to sections…

Section 13. If the superintendent of any facility determines that failure to retain a male resident therein in strict security would create a likelihood of serious harm by reason of mental illness and that the person's violent behavior constitutes an emergency, he may, with the c…

Section 14. Whenever the medical director of the Bridgewater state hospital certifies that the failure to retain any person in strict security would not create a likelihood of serious harm by reason of mental illness but that such person is in need of further care and treatment i…

Section 15. (a) Whenever a court of competent jurisdiction doubts whether a defendant in a criminal case is competent to stand trial or is criminally responsible by reason of mental illness or mental defect, it may at any stage of the proceedings after the return of an indictment…

Section 16. (a) The court having jurisdiction over the criminal proceedings may order that a person who has been found incompetent to stand trial or not guilty by reason of mental illness or mental defect in such proceedings be hospitalized at a facility for a period of forty day…