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MA Gen L ch 111 § 83 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 83 - County or Municipal Tuberculosis Institutions; Conveyance to Commonwealth

Section 83. Where a county or municipal institution is operating for the care and treatment of tuberculosis patients and the county commissioners or officers in charge of the municipal institution determine that it is no longer feasible to continue the institution as a county or municipal responsibility or to liquidate it, the commissioners or other authorized officers may with the approval of the commissioner of public health convey to the commonwealth the institution and so much of the estate on which it is situated as is used for the purposes of the institution and also the personal property owned by the county or municipality and held or used for the purposes of the institution. The commissioner of public health is hereby authorized to accept, subject to appropriation, such conveyance in the name and behalf of the commonwealth if at the time such offer of conveyance is made he determines that it is in the best interests of the commonwealth to accept such conveyance.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 83a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 83a - Indemnity Insurance for Officers and Employees of Hospital

Section 83A. The county commissioners of any county, acting as trustees of a hospital established therein under section eighty-two may effect insurance providing indemnity for or protection to the officers and employees of such hospital against loss by reason of their liability to pay damages to others for bodily injuries, including death at any time resulting therefrom, or for damage to property, caused by the operation, within the scope of their official duties or employment, of motor or other vehicles owned by the institution to an amount not exceeding forty thousand dollars on account of the injury to or death of one person, or not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars for any one accident, and not exceeding one thousand dollars on account of damage to property. The expense of such insurance shall be included as a part of the cost of maintenance of such hospital.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 83b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 83b - Authority to Raise and Expend Money for Tuberculosis Hospital; Borrowing; Notes; Apportionment of Costs

Section 83B. County commissioners in carrying out their responsibilities as trustees of county institutions under section eighty-two shall raise and expend such sums of money for acquiring land and constructing and equipping buildings including out-patient and diagnostic facilities and for the alteration and enlargement of existing buildings, for care, maintenance, and repair of all facilities, and for all other purposes as authorized by the general court, except for such temporary financing as provided in section eighty-five A. They may borrow, on the credit of the county, when so authorized by the general court, the said sums, and issue notes of the county therefor, with such interest as may be fixed under section thirty-nine of chapter thirty-five, payable semi-annually, or without interest, in which case they may sell such notes at such discount as they deem proper. The notes shall be signed by the county treasurer and countersigned by the county commissioners. The county may sell the said securities, at public or private sale, on terms and conditions deemed proper, but the proceeds shall be used only for the purposes for which such securities are issued. Said notes may be renewed from time to time without specific authorization from the general court until all the cities and towns liable have paid to the county treasurer the amounts assessed against them. Any amount of interest paid or due on said notes and renewals thereof may be similarly borrowed. All reimbursement from cities and towns on such assessments shall be applied to the payment of temporary debt incurred under this section. Such assessments shall be made against the cities and towns in the county in accordance with their valuation used in assessing county taxes and shall be paid in such manner and such installments as the commissioner shall by special order direct. If any city or town shall neglect or refuse to pay its proportion as required by said order, the county commissioners shall, after notice to the city or town and unless sufficient cause is shown to the contrary, issue a warrant against it for the sum which it was ordered to pay, with interest, and the costs of the notice and warrant; and the same shall be collected and paid into the county treasury, to be applied in payment of the expenses aforesaid.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 85 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 85 - Maintenance of County Tuberculosis Hospitals; Apportionment of Costs and Expenses

Section 85. The county commissioners shall provide for the maintenance, operation and repair of the institutions under section eighty-two provided that the expenditure of money for the purposes of this section shall be limited to such amounts as may be authorized by the various advisory boards on county expenditures. The commissioners shall, immediately after July tenth of each year, apportion the balance of the cost of maintenance, operation and repair of such hospitals, including the interest paid or due on temporary notes issued therefor, for the previous fiscal year, as defined by section sixteen of chapter thirty-five, to the cities and towns in the county in accordance with their evaluation as used in assessing the county taxes, and shall issue their warrants against such cities and towns for the amount for which they are assessed. Any balance of such cost not so assessed for such year by reason of an underestimate by the commissioners shall be assessed for the next subsequent fiscal year and any excess assessed in accordance with the foregoing provision by reason of an over-estimate by them shall be deducted in determining the amount to be assessed for the next subsequent fiscal year. The county may, thirty days after a written demand for payment, recover in contract against any city or town the amount for which it is liable under this section.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 85a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 85a - Maintenance, Operation and Repair of Hospitals; Apportionment; Expenditures

Section 85A. To provide such funds as may be necessary to meet the cost of the care, maintenance and repair of a county institution in compliance with section eighty-five, the county commissioners may in any year borrow money on the credit of the county by temporary loans without specific authorization by the general court, and for such purposes the county treasurer may, with the approval of the county commissioners, issue notes of the county therefor, maturing in not more than twelve months from their dates, and may from time to time renew the same, until all the cities and towns liable to assessment under said section eighty-five have paid to the county treasurer the sums so assessed against them for the aforesaid cost for said year. Receipts of such institutions shall be paid to the county treasurer at such times as the county commissioners may determine. Receipts for said year and payments to the county of the assessments made under section eighty-five to meet the aforesaid cost for said year shall be applied to the payment of the cost of maintenance or to the payment of such temporary loans.  Notwithstanding the limitations imposed by section thirty-seven A of chapter thirty-five, expenditures for the cost in any year of the care, maintenance and repair of county institutions under section eighty-five may be made from any cash balance remaining in the treasury of any such institution at the end of the preceding fiscal year resulting from loans issued under the authority of this section.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 86 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 86 - Acquisition of Land

Section 86. Subject to section eight-four, county commissioners may purchase, lease, or take by eminent domain under chapter seventy-nine, such land, not exceeding five hundred acres, as they may deem necessary or convenient for the purposes set forth in section seventy-eight.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 87 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 87 - County Commissioners as Trustees of Institutions

Section 87. The county commissioners shall be trustees of the institutions operated under section eighty-two except in Norfolk county where there shall be seven trustees consisting of: the three Norfolk county commissioners, the chairperson of the Norfolk county advisory board or his designee, a medical doctor residing in Norfolk county who shall be appointed by the Norfolk county advisory board to serve for a term of six years, a member of the business community residing in Norfolk county who shall be appointed by the Norfolk county advisory board to serve for a term of six years and a health care consumer residing in Norfolk county who shall be appointed by the Norfolk county advisory board to serve for a term of six years; provided, however, that one of the appointees of the Norfolk county advisory board shall reside in the town of Braintree. Such trustees shall make suitable regulations for the operation of such institutions and shall appoint superintendents and other officers and employees necessary for the proper operation of the institution. Appointment of superintendents and other physicians to the staff of said institution shall be subject to the approval of the department.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 88 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 88 - Conversion of Hospitals Into Chronic Disease Hospitals or Homes for the Aged

Section 88. Where, at the time this section goes into effect, a city or town is maintaining a tuberculosis hospital and such hospital is not utilized by the commonwealth for the care and treatment of tuberculosis patients under contractual arrangements under section seventy-seven, and where such hospital is deemed by the board or officer in charge as no longer necessary for the care of tuberculous patients, the hospital may after being licensed under section seventy-one be converted into a chronic disease hospital or home for the care and treatment of aging persons, or the institution may be liquidated in accordance with law. The board or officer in charge of such institution may adopt such rules and regulations concerning the operation of the institution as a chronic disease hospital or home for the aging and concerning admission of patients thereto as deemed necessary; provided, however, that the rate or rates in such a chronic disease hospital or home for the aging for all general health supplies, care, services and accommodations shall be established by the executive office of health and human services or a governmental unit designated by the executive office.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 91c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 91c - Diseases of Chest; Use of Facilities for Treatment; Rules and Regulations

Section 91C. Whenever, in the opinion of the board or officer in charge of a tuberculosis hospital maintained by a city or town, the entire facilities of such hospital are no longer needed for the treatment and care of persons in said city or town suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis, such board or officer may, so long as the department approves, establish and maintain at such hospital a division for the care and treatment of persons suffering from other diseases of the chest; provided, that sufficient beds are at all times available for persons with tuberculosis; and provided, further, that such division is licensed in accordance with sections seventy to seventy-three, inclusive. Subject to the approval of the department, the board or officer in charge of such hospital may, notwithstanding any contrary provisions of this chapter, promulgate rules and regulations for such division, including the charges for care and treatment therein.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 92 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 92 - Construction and Maintenance of Isolation Hospitals; Approval

Section 92. Each city shall, and each town may, and upon request of the department shall, establish and maintain constantly within its limits one or more hospitals for the reception of persons having smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, or other diseases dangerous to the public health except tuberculosis as defined by the department unless there already exists therein a hospital satisfactory to the department for the reception of persons ill with such diseases, or unless some arrangement satisfactory to the department is made for the care of such persons. All such hospitals established and maintained by cities and towns shall be subject to the orders and regulations of the boards of health thereof. Plans for construction of such hospitals shall be approved by the department before they are constructed, and the district health officers shall annually make such examination of said hospitals, and of all other hospitals, sanatoria, asylums, homes, prisons and dispensaries, both public and private, caring for diseases dangerous to the public health, as in the opinion of the department may be necessary, and report as to their condition and needs to those responsible for their management. A city or town which, upon the request of the department, refuses or neglects to establish and maintain such a hospital shall forfeit not more than five hundred dollars; provided, that if, in the opinion of the boards of health of two or more adjoining municipalities, such hospitals can advantageously be established and maintained in common, the authorities of the said cities or towns may, subject to the approval of the department, enter into any agreements deemed necessary to establish and maintain the same.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 93 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 93 - Regulation of Persons Approaching Isolation Hospital

Section 93. Physicians, nurses, attendants, patients and all persons approaching or coming within the limits of such hospitals, and all furniture and other articles used or brought there, shall be subject to the regulations of the board of health.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 94 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 94 - Receiving Persons From Adjoining Towns

Section 94. The board of health of any town which has established or which may hereafter establish within its limits a hospital for the reception of persons having smallpox or any other disease dangerous to the public health may receive for care and treatment in such hospital persons from an adjoining town who are infected with any of said diseases.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 94a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 94a - Certification of Non-Hospitalized Persons Afflicted With Active Tuberculosis; Examination; Transportation; Release

Section 94A. (a) The board of health of any city or town, or any member thereof, or two physicians licensed to practice medicine in the commonwealth, may certify to the commissioner any non-hospitalized person who (1) is afflicted with active tuberculosis, (2) is unwilling or unable to accept proper medical treatment, and (3) is thereby a serious danger to the public health.  (b) On receipt of such certification the commissioner or his agent shall conduct or have conducted an examination of such person, and, if he concurs in the certification shall file a petition in the district court under section ninety-four C for the hospitalization of such person. If, however, such person refuses to submit to examination, the commissioner may order him to be hospitalized immediately at the tuberculosis treatment center, established under section ninety-four D for a fifteen-day observational period.  (c) If the commissioner or his agent concurs in the certification of the board of health, and finds that such person is in need of immediate hospitalization for the protection of the public health, he may order him to be hospitalized immediately at the tuberculosis treatment center for a fifteen-day emergency observational period.  (d) The commissioner or his agent may call on the police department of the city or town whose board of health certified such person, or the police department of the place where such person is present, to provide the transportation to the tuberculosis treatment center.  (e) If the patient is sent to the tuberculosis treatment center under this section, the superintendent thereof shall, at the expiration of fifteen days, either release the patient or file a petition with the district court under section ninety-four C. The patient may be detained at the center pending disposition of the petition.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 94b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 94b - Detention of Patient at Sanatorium; Petition; Transfer to Tuberculosis Treatment Center; Release

Section 94B. If any active tuberculosis patient in a municipal, county, state or private sanatorium or hospital indicates his desire to leave the institution against the medical advice of the superintendent or manager of the institution in accord with the accepted medical policy of the institution, and the superintendent or manager determines that to allow his release would be a serious danger to the public health, he may detain the patient, or, if he fears the patient may try to leave the hospital, he may request the local police department to transport the patient immediately to the tuberculosis treatment center established under section ninety-four D.  If the superintendent or manager detains the patient at his own institution, he shall immediately file a petition in the district court under section ninety-four C for the prolonged hospitalization of the patient. The patient may be detained at the institution pending disposition of the petition.  If the patient is transported to the tuberculosis treatment center he shall be detained there no longer than fifteen days, and upon the expiration of that time he shall be released, unless a petition for the prolonged hospitalization of such patient is filed by the superintendent thereof in the district court under section ninety-four C.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 94c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 94c - Court Commitment to Tuberculosis Treatment Center; Procedure; Notice; Hearing

Section 94C. Any justice or associate justice of the district court may commit to the tuberculosis treatment center established under section ninety-four D, for prolonged hospitalization, any person afflicted with active tuberculosis and residing in or present in the jurisdiction of the court, concerning whom a petition has been filed in accordance with sections ninety-four A and ninety-four B.  The procedure for commitment shall be as follows:—  (1) If the petition is filed by the commissioner of public health or his agent under section ninety-four A in a nonemergency situation, the court shall appoint two physicians experienced in the diagnosis, care and treatment of tuberculosis to examine the person and report to the court on his condition and on his willingness and ability to accept proper medical treatment, and to give their opinion on whether or not it would be a serious danger to the public health to allow the person to be unhospitalized. Neither of these physicians shall be on the full-time staff of a state, county or municipal tuberculosis hospital.  The court shall give the person notice of his right to a hearing on the matter of his commitment. If the person does not request a hearing, the judge may order his commitment on the basis of the physicians' reports. If a hearing is requested, the court shall allow the person a reasonable time to prepare his case. The court need not see the person or hear him in open court if it is deemed inadvisable by the physicians because of his contagious condition. If, however, it is determined that the person cannot be present because of his condition, he must be given notice of this fact and of his right to have counsel and witnesses present at the hearing. In the latter case, the court shall appoint legal counsel to represent the person's interests at the hearing if he does not have his own legal counsel.  If the judge finds the person is afflicted with tuberculosis and is unwilling or unable to accept proper medical treatment, and is thereby a serious danger to the public health, the judge shall commit the person to the care and custody of the commissioner, to be cared for and treated at the tuberculosis treatment center.  (2) If the petition is filed by the superintendent of the tuberculosis treatment center under section ninety-four A or ninety-four B, or under section ninety-four B by the superintendent or manager of another sanatorium or hospital, the judge shall give notice to the patient of his right to a hearing on the matter of his commitment. If a hearing is requested it shall be granted and the commitment procedure and medical examination shall be conducted in compliance with paragraph (1). If no hearing is requested the judge may, on the basis of the petition of the superintendent and on such other evidence as he may require, order the person committed.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 94d (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 94d - Tuberculosis Treatment Center; Establishment; Supervision

Section 94D. The department shall establish a tuberculosis treatment center in one of the state hospitals, or may contract with a county, municipal or general hospital for the custody, care, treatment and rehabilitation of patients hospitalized under sections ninety-four A to ninety-four C, inclusive. Such center or hospital shall be equipped with adequate safeguards to prevent the escape of such patients. Such center or hospital shall be under the supervision of its superintendent, subject to the provisions of this chapter, or of any rules or regulations made by the commissioner.  The commissioner may construct facilities similar to said treatment center at any state hospital, and all such facilities, including facilities provided by contract for the same purpose, shall constitute the treatment center, as used in sections ninety-four A to ninety-four C, inclusive. On any hospitalization under said sections, the commissioner may assign the patients to whichever facility he deems best suited to care for them. The commissioner may transfer such patients from one such facility to another if he deems it advisable.