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MASSACHUSETTS STATUTES AND CODES
CHAPTER 123 MENTAL HEALTH
- Section 1 Definitions
- Section 2 Regulations
- Section 3 Transfers; notice; emergencies
- Section 4 Periodic review; notice
- Section 5 Commitment or retention hearings; right to counsel; medical examination; notice
- Section 6 Retention of persons; validity of orders; hearing
- Section 7 Commitment and retention of dangerous persons; petition; notice; hearing
- Section 8 Proceedings to commit dangerous persons; notice; hearing; orders; jurisdiction
- Section 8A [There is no 123:8A]
- Section 8B Treatment of committed persons with antipsychotic medication; petition; notice; hearing; guardian
- Section 9 Review of matters of law; application for discharge; notice; hearing
- Section 10 Voluntary admissions; consultation with attorney; discharge; outpatients; veterans
- Section 11 Voluntary admissions; withdrawal; notice; examination; retention
- Section 12 Emergency restraint of dangerous persons; application for hospitalization; examination
- Section 13 Transfer of dangerous males to Bridgewater state hospital; retention period; further commitment; procedure
- Section 14 Transfers from Bridgewater state hospital to other facilities
- Section 15 Competence to stand trial or criminal responsibility; examination; period of observation; reports; hearing; commitment; delinquents
- Section 16 Hospitalization of persons incompetent to stand trial or not guilty by reason of mental illness; examination period; commitment; hearing; restrictions; dismissal of criminal charges
- Section 17 Periodic review of incompetence to stand trial; petition; hearing; continued treatment; defense to charges; release
- Section 18 Hospitalization of mentally ill prisoners; examination; reports; hearing; commitment; voluntary admission; reduction of sentence; discharge
- Section 18A Facility residents; contribution towards cost of counsel
- Section 19 Parties or witnesses; determination of mental condition
- Section 20 Extradition of mental institution escapees
- Section 21 Transportation of mentally ill persons; restraint
- Section 22 Civil liability of physicians, qualified psychologists, qualified psychiatric nurse mental health clinic specialists and police officers
- Section 23 Rights of persons receiving services from programs or facilities of department of mental health
- Section 23A Competent interpreter services in hospitals which provide acute psychiatric services
- Section 24 Legal capacity of persons admitted or committed
- Section 25 Guardian or conservator; appointment
- Section 26 Deposit of funds held in trust for inpatients or residents; unclaimed funds and personal property; fiduciaries
- Section 27 Administration of estate of deceased inpatient or resident
- Section 28 Violent or unnatural death of patients; notice to district attorney
- Section 29 Instruction and education; work programs; sale of work products
- Section 30 Unauthorized absence of patients; notification of police, et al.; return
- Section 31 Medicine and drugs; indigent patients
- Section 32 Charges for care of persons in facilities
- Section 33 Expenses of apprehension, examination, hearing, commitment or delivery; certification; audit; payment; fees
- Section 34 Commitment or transfer to Veterans Administration or other federal agency
- Section 35 Commitment of alcoholics or substance abusers
- Section 36 Patient records; inspection; maintenance and retention
- Section 36A Court records of examination or commitment; privacy
- Section 36B Duty to warn patient’s potential victims; cause of action
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