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MA Gen L ch 119a § 15 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVII - Public Welfare|Chapter 119a - Child Support Enforcement|Section 15 - Iv&ndash;d Agency Powers; Failure to Comply With Subpoena or Summons Issued Under Section; Penalties; Production of Witnesses, Books, Papers and Records

Section 15. The IV–D agency may take testimony and proofs under oath with reference to any matter within the administrative authority of the agency and, in connection therewith, may issue subpoenas or summonses and require the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of books, papers, records, data and other evidence. In the case of records maintained in electronic data bases, the IV–D agency may issue a subpoena, including a subpoena in machine readable format, for access, including electronic access, to such records. In all other cases, subpoenas and summonses issued by the IV–D agency shall be served in the same manner as subpoenas or summonses issued on behalf of the commonwealth for witnesses in civil cases. All provisions of law relative to the subpoenas or summonses shall apply to subpoenas or summonses issued hereunder. Any individual, employer, agency, institution or other entity who, without reasonable cause, fails to comply with a subpoena or summons issued under this section shall be liable for a penalty and reasonable attorneys' fees to be assessed by the IV–D agency or by a court or administrative agency of competent jurisdiction, provided, that if such penalty and attorney's fees are assessed by the IV–D agency or by such other administrative agency, the individual, employer, agency, institution or other entity against whom such penalties and fees are assessed may seek judicial review of such assessment within 45 days of notice of such assessment. The amount of such penalty shall be $100 for the first violation, $200 for the second violation, and $300 for the third violation and each violation thereafter. Any license held or sought by any obligor who, without reasonable cause, fails to comply with a subpoena or summons issued under this section may also be subject to revocation, suspension, or nonissuance pursuant to section 16, provided that any individual aggrieved by a final determination to so revoke, suspend or not issue a license may seek judicial review pursuant to section 17 within 45 days of notice of such final determination. A justice of a court that has jurisdiction of child support and paternity matters may, upon the application of the IV–D agency, compel the attendance of witnesses, the production of books, papers, records, data and other evidence and the giving of testimony before the IV–D agency in the same manner and to the same extent as before such court and in accordance with the applicable rules of procedure.
MA Gen L ch 119a § 17 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVII - Public Welfare|Chapter 119a - Child Support Enforcement|Section 17 - Procedures for Collection and Disbursement of Child Support; Informational Materials; Review; Appeals

Section 17. The department shall establish procedures for the prompt resolution of disputes concerning the collection and disbursement of child support and shall prepare informational materials for distribution to obligors and obligees describing such procedures and, where applicable, such procedures shall be consistent with section six of chapter one hundred and nineteen A. Such procedures shall include maintenance of an adequately staffed unit the principal duties of which shall be to respond to inquiries, with a widely publicized telephone line, to receive written requests from obligors and obligees for administrative review of the IV–D agency's actions in collecting and disbursing child support and to refer such requests to the appropriate unit within the department for resolution. Upon receipt of the necessary information and documentation from the obligor and obligee requesting administrative review, the department shall conduct the review and render a written decision of its determination to the person requesting the review. Such determination shall also notify such person that he may, upon exhaustion of the procedures for administrative review provided herein and within 45 days of such determination, seek judicial review in the court where the order or judgment was issued or registered or, if there is no such order or judgment, by filing a request for judicial review in the probate court in the county wherein the appellant resides; provided, however, that a request for judicial review shall be accompanied by a copy of the agency's determination. Upon receipt of the request for judicial review, the court shall notify the IV–D agency at least fourteen days prior to any hearing. Pursuant to relevant provisions of state and federal law, the court may review the determination made by the agency and may correct any mistakes of fact. Appeals from a decision of a court pursuant to this section may be made in the same manner as other judicial appeals.
MA Gen L ch 120 § 1 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVII - Public Welfare|Chapter 120 - Department of Youth Services and Massachusetts Training Schools|Section 1 - Corporate Status of Department of Youth Services; Holding and Investing Trust Funds

Section 1. The department of youth services shall be a corporation for the purpose of taking, holding and investing in trust for the commonwealth, subject to section fifteen of chapter ten, any grant or devise of land or any gift or bequest made at any time for the use of any institution of which said department has the management, government and care, and it shall succeed to and retain the rights, powers and duties formerly held or acquired by the division of youth service and by the youth service board, except as otherwise provided in said section fifteen and in this chapter.
MA Gen L ch 120 § 2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVII - Public Welfare|Chapter 120 - Department of Youth Services and Massachusetts Training Schools|Section 2 - Management, Government and Care of Industrial Schools; Employment of Expert Personnel by Director

Section 2. The department of youth services shall have the management, government and care of the Lyman school for boys at Westborough, the industrial school for girls at Lancaster, the industrial school for boys at Shirley, and of all other institutions, except correctional institutions of the commonwealth, supported by the commonwealth for the custody, diagnosis, care and training of delinquent or wayward children or habitual truants or habitual absentees or habitual school offenders or juvenile offenders. The department of youth services shall have control of the land and buildings of said schools. To carry out its duties under this chapter, the commissioner shall authorize the employment within the limits of the amount appropriated therefore, such medical, dental, psychiatric, psychological, social work, legal, investigative and other expert personnel, including experts in the fields of fiscal affairs, research and planning, and personnel administration and training, superintendents, field representatives, supervisory, clerical and other employees as he shall deem necessary, and shall prescribe their duties. Physicians, dentists and psychiatrists employed hereunder shall not be subject to the provisions of chapter thirty-one or section nine A of chapter thirty.
MA Gen L ch 120 § 3 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVII - Public Welfare|Chapter 120 - Department of Youth Services and Massachusetts Training Schools|Section 3 - Appointment of Superintendents, Chaplains and Physicians

Section 3. The commissioner of youth services shall from time to time appoint a superintendent, chaplains and a physician of each of said schools and institutions, and shall, in accordance with law appoint all other officers and employees required at said schools and institutions and shall prescribe their duties.
MA Gen L ch 120 § 4 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVII - Public Welfare|Chapter 120 - Department of Youth Services and Massachusetts Training Schools|Section 4 - Rules and Regulations; By-Laws

Section 4. The commissioner of youth services shall establish rules, regulations, and by-laws for the government of each institution and shall see that its affairs are conducted according to law and to such rules, regulations, and by-laws; but the purpose thereof and of all education, employment, training, discipline, recreation and other activities carried on in the institutions shall be to restore and build up the self-respect and self-reliance of the children lodged therein and to qualify them for good citizenship and honorable employment.
MA Gen L ch 120 § 5 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVII - Public Welfare|Chapter 120 - Department of Youth Services and Massachusetts Training Schools|Section 5 - Examination and Study of Children Committed; Re-Examinations; Records; Discharge

Section 5. (a) When a person has been committed to the department of youth services, it shall, under rules established by it, forthwith examine and study him and investigate all pertinent circumstances of his life and behavior.  (b) The department of youth services shall make periodic reexamination of all persons within its control. These examinations may be made as frequently as the department considers desirable, and shall be made with respect to every person at intervals not exceeding one year.  (c) The department of youth services shall keep written records of all examinations and of the conclusions based thereon, and of all orders concerning the disposition or treatment of every person subject to its control.  (d) Failure of the department of youth services to examine a person committed to it, or to reexamine him within one year of a previous examination, shall not of itself entitle the person to discharge from the control of the department, but shall entitle him to petition the committing court for an order of discharge, and the court shall discharge him unless the department upon due notice satisfies the court of the necessity for further control.  (e) Within eighteen months of the original commitment of a child to the department by a court of competent jurisdiction, and periodically thereafter, the committing court shall reconvene upon petition of the department, in accordance with rules established by the chief administrative judge of the trial court, to determine the future status of the child as to whether or not it is in the child's best interests to be returned to his home. All such determinations shall indicate whether, after the departmental placement of the child, reasonable efforts were made to make it possible for the child to return to his home.
MA Gen L ch 120 § 6 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVII - Public Welfare|Chapter 120 - Department of Youth Services and Massachusetts Training Schools|Section 6 - Liberty Under Supervision; Confinement; Reconfinement; Revocation or Modification of Order; Discharge

Section 6. When a person has been committed to the department of youth services, it may after an objective consideration of all available information—  (a) Permit him his liberty under supervision and upon such conditions as it believes conducive to law-abiding conduct; or—  (b) Order his confinement under such conditions as it believes best designed for the protection of the public; or—  (c) Order reconfinement or renewed release as often as conditions indicate to be desirable; or—  (d) Revoke or modify any order, except an order of final discharge, as often as conditions indicate to be desirable; or—  (e) Discharge him from control with notice to the court, except as provided in section twelve, when it is satisfied that such discharge is consistent with the protection of the public.
MA Gen L ch 120 § 6a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVII - Public Welfare|Chapter 120 - Department of Youth Services and Massachusetts Training Schools|Section 6a - Correction of Socially Harmful Tendencies

Section 6A. As a means of correcting the socially harmful tendencies of a person committed to it, the department of youth services may—  (a) Require participation by him in vocational, physical, educational, and correctional training and activities.  (b) Require such modes of life and conduct as seem best adapted to fit him for return to full liberty without danger to the public.  (c) Provide such medical or psychiatric treatment as is necessary.
MA Gen L ch 120 § 7 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVII - Public Welfare|Chapter 120 - Department of Youth Services and Massachusetts Training Schools|Section 7 - Powers and Duties of Superintendent

Section 7. The superintendent of each school or other institution, with the subordinate officers, shall have general charge of and be responsible for the welfare and custody of the children lodged therein, and for carrying out the rehabilitative program prescribed by the commissioner of youth services. He shall be a constant resident at the school, and, under the direction of the commissioner of youth services, shall seek to establish relationships and to organize ways of life that will meet the moral, physical, emotional, intellectual and social needs of the children under his care as those needs would be met in adequate homes.
MA Gen L ch 120 § 8 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVII - Public Welfare|Chapter 120 - Department of Youth Services and Massachusetts Training Schools|Section 8 - Bond and Accounts of Superintendents; Accounting to Commissioner of Youth Services

Section 8. Each superintendent shall before entering upon his duties give bond to the commonwealth, with sureties approved by the governor and council, in such sum as the comptroller may prescribe, conditioned that he shall faithfully perform all his duties and account for all money received by him as superintendent. The bond shall be filed in the office of the state treasurer. Each superintendent shall have charge of all the property of the institution within the precincts thereof. He shall keep accounts of all his receipts and expenditures, and of all property intrusted to him, showing the income and expenses of the institution; and shall account to the commissioner of youth services, in such manner as said commissioner may require, for all money received by him. His books and all documents relative to the school shall at all times be open to the inspection of the commissioner of youth services.
MA Gen L ch 120 § 9 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVII - Public Welfare|Chapter 120 - Department of Youth Services and Massachusetts Training Schools|Section 9 - Rogers Fund

Section 9. The superintendent of the industrial school for girls, under the direction of the commissioner of youth services, shall purchase books with the income and profits and according to the terms of the donation of Henry B. Rogers.
MA Gen L ch 120 § 10b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVII - Public Welfare|Chapter 120 - Department of Youth Services and Massachusetts Training Schools|Section 10b - Involuntary Room Confinement Prohibited

Section 10B. A person detained by and committed to the department of youth services shall not be placed in involuntary room confinement as a punishment, harassment or consequence for noncompliance or in retaliation for any conduct.
MA Gen L ch 120 § 11 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVII - Public Welfare|Chapter 120 - Department of Youth Services and Massachusetts Training Schools|Section 11 - Places for Detention and Diagnosis; Treatment and Training Facilities; Facilities to Aid Persons Given Conditional Releases; Forest or Farm School Camps

Section 11. When funds are available for the purpose, the commissioner of youth services may (a) establish and operate places for detention and diagnosis of all persons committed to the department; (b) establish and operate additional treatment and training facilities necessary to classify and segregate and handle delinquents, youthful offenders and juvenile offenders of different ages, habits and mental and physical condition according to their needs; (c) establish facilities to aid persons given conditional release or discharged by the department to find employment and to lead a law-abiding existence, and shall establish, on land under the control of the department of environmental management or upon other sites approved by the commissioner of conservation and recreation, forest or farm school camps to which children placed in the care of the department of youth services may be sent for such education and training as may be deemed best for their readjustment, the work projects of which may be assigned in farming or reforestation, maintenance and development of state forests and recreational areas as may be approved by the commissioner of conservation and recreation.
MA Gen L ch 120 § 13 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVII - Public Welfare|Chapter 120 - Department of Youth Services and Massachusetts Training Schools|Section 13 - Escape; Breach of Parole; Arrest; Detention

Section 13. The department may issue a warrant for the arrest of any person committed to it who has escaped from a facility or who has been released on parole and broken the conditions thereof. Such person may be arrested with or without such warrant by a police officer, sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable or person employed or authorized by the department and may be kept in custody in a suitable place and there detained until such person may be returned to the custody of the department.
MA Gen L ch 120 § 13a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVII - Public Welfare|Chapter 120 - Department of Youth Services and Massachusetts Training Schools|Section 13a - Compensation for Property Damage Caused by Inmates; Notice of Damage; Claim; Filing

Section 13A. Upon written request of the department, there shall be paid out of the state treasury, from such funds as may be available therefor, to any person determined by the attorney general to be entitled to compensation for damage to his property caused by the act of any inmate of the Lyman school for boys at Westborough, the industrial school for girls at Lancaster, the industrial school for boys at Shirley, the department of youth services reception center at Westborough or any other institution of which the department has management, government and care under the provisions of section two while escaping therefrom, such sum as the attorney general shall determine to be just and reasonable and as the governor and council shall approve; provided, that written notice of said damage and claim for compensation therefor be filed with the department within one year next after the date on which such damage occurred.
MA Gen L ch 120 § 14 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVII - Public Welfare|Chapter 120 - Department of Youth Services and Massachusetts Training Schools|Section 14 - Applications for New Commitments for Mentally Ill, Developmentally Disabled or Sexually Dangerous Persons

Section 14. Whenever the department finds that any person committed to it is mentally ill, within the meaning of chapter one hundred and twenty-three, developmentally disabled or a sexually dangerous person, within the meaning of chapter one hundred and twenty-three A, or a potential psychotic as defined and determined by the assistant commissioner of the bureau of clinical services, the department may make application to the proper court for a new commitment to the appropriate agency in accordance with law.
MA Gen L ch 120 § 15 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVII - Public Welfare|Chapter 120 - Department of Youth Services and Massachusetts Training Schools|Section 15 - Transfers From Massachusetts Reformatory and Reformatory for Women

Section 15. With the consent of the department, the commissioner of correction may transfer to the care of the department any boy under 18 sentenced to the Massachusetts reformatory, or any girl under 18 sentenced to the reformatory for women, for such disposition as in the opinion of the department, after study, will best serve the needs of the boy or girl and best protect the interests of the public.
MA Gen L ch 120 § 16 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVII - Public Welfare|Chapter 120 - Department of Youth Services and Massachusetts Training Schools|Section 16 - Discharge of Persons Committed as Delinquent Child or Youthful Offender

Section 16. Every person committed to the department until the age of 18 as a delinquent child, if not already discharged, shall be discharged upon reaching the person's eighteenth birthday. Every person committed to the department until the age of 19 as a delinquent child, if not already discharged, shall be discharged upon reaching the person's nineteenth birthday. Every person committed to the department until the age of 20 as a delinquent child, if not already discharged, shall be discharged upon reaching the person's twentieth birthday. Every person committed to the department until the age of 21 as a youthful offender, if not already discharged, shall be discharged upon reaching the person's twenty-first birthday. The department may continue to have responsibility for any person provided for in this chapter under 22 years of age for the purposes of specific educational or rehabilitative programs, under conditions agreed upon by both the department and such persons and terminable by either. Such services must be offered prior to the person's discharge date as provided herein; however, a person may request and the department shall consider any such request for the services described, for up to 90 days after the person's effective date of discharge, even where the person has previously declined services or services were terminated for non-compliance, and may reach an agreement with the person, terminable by either, to provide the services described herein until such person attains the age of 22.
MA Gen L ch 120 § 17 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVII - Public Welfare|Chapter 120 - Department of Youth Services and Massachusetts Training Schools|Section 17 - Control Beyond Age Limit; Persons Physically Dangerous to Public

Section 17. Whenever the department is of the opinion that discharge of a person from its control at the age limit stated in section sixteen would be physically dangerous to the public, the department shall make an order directing that the person remain subject to its control beyond the period and shall make application to the committing court for a review of that order by the court. The order and application may be made at any time prior to the date of discharge stated in said section sixteen. The application shall be accompanied by a written statement of the facts upon which the department bases its opinion that discharge from its control at the time stated would be physically dangerous to the public, but no such application shall be dismissed nor shall the order be discharged, merely because of its form or an asserted insufficiency of its allegations; every order shall be reviewed upon its merits.