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2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 121c - Economic Development and Industrial Corporations › Section 10 - Debentures; Issuance Authorized; Trust Agreements as Security

Section 10. To provide funds for the general purposes of the corporation, including working capital, the corporation may from time to time issue debentures; provided, however, that such debentures outstanding at any one time shall not exceed five million dollars unless specifically approved by MOBD and the director. Such debentures unless otherwise authorized by law shall not be deemed to constitute a debt of the commonwealth or of the municipality or a pledge of the faith and credit of the commonwealth or of the municipality and shall be subordinated to all other obligations of the corporation and shall be payable at such time or times and in such installments, if any, as the corporation shall determine, but solely out of the net assets of the corporation; and the holders thereof shall be entitled to interest thereon but only out of the net earnings of the corporation, and in no event at a rate higher than the rate specified therein.
Such debentures may be secured by a trust agreement by and between the corporation and a corporate trustee, which shall be located within the commonwealth and shall be a trust company or bank having the powers of a trust company. Such trust agreement shall contain such provisions for protecting and enforcing the rights and remedies of the debenture holders as may be reasonable and proper and not in violation of law. It shall be lawful for any bank or trust company incorporated under the laws of the commonwealth which may act as depository under such trust agreement to furnish such indemnifying bonds or to pledge such securities as may be required by the corporation. Such trust agreement shall set forth the rights and remedies of the debentureholders and of the trustee, and may restrict the individual right of action by debentureholders. In addition to the foregoing, such trust agreement may contain such other provisions as the corporation may deem reasonable and proper for the security of the debentureholders. All expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of such trust agreement may be treated as an item of current expense.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 121c - Economic Development and Industrial Corporations › Section 11 - Municipal Indebtedness in Aid of Corporation

Section 11. The municipality may raise and appropriate or may borrow, or may agree with the corporation or with the federal government or the commonwealth to raise and appropriate or to borrow, in aid of the corporation, such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes and powers of the corporation including defraying part of the development, acquisition and operating costs of any project. Indebtedness of the municipality authorized under this section shall be outside the limit of indebtedness prescribed in section ten of chapter forty-four and shall be payable within twenty years and otherwise subject to sections sixteen to twenty-seven, inclusive, of said chapter forty-four; provided, however, that the total amount of indebtedness of the municipality, outstanding at any one time under this section and clauses one, two, and four of section twenty of chapter one hundred twenty-one B shall not exceed five per cent of the municipality equalized valuation as defined in section one of said chapter forty-four.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 121c - Economic Development and Industrial Corporations › Section 14 - Revenue and Revenue Refunding Bonds as Securities for Purposes of Investments or Deposits by Certain Institutions

Section 14. Revenue bonds and revenue refunding bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter are hereby made securities in which all public officers and public bodies of the commonwealth and its political subdivisions, all insurance companies, trust companies in their commercial departments and within the limits set by section fourteen of chapter one hundred and sixty-seven E, banking associations, investment companies, executors, trustees and other fiduciaries, and all other persons whatsoever who are now or may hereafter be authorized to invest in bonds or other obligations of a similar nature may properly and legally invest funds, including capital in their control or belonging to them; and such bonds are hereby made obligations which may properly and legally be made eligible for the investment of savings deposits and the income thereof in the manner provided by section two of chapter one hundred and sixty-seven F. Such bonds are hereby made securities which may properly and legally be deposited with and received by any state or municipal officer or any agency or political subdivision of the commonwealth for any purpose for which the deposit of bonds or other obligations of the commonwealth is now or may hereafter be authorized by law.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 121c - Economic Development and Industrial Corporations › Section 15 - Enforcement of This Chapter and of Trust Agreements

Section 15. Any holder of bonds or debentures issued under the provisions of this chapter or of any coupons appertaining thereto, and the trustee, except to the extent the rights herein given may be restricted by the trust agreement, may, either at law or in equity, by suit, action, mandamus or other proceeding, protect and enforce any and all rights under the laws of the commonwealth or granted hereunder or under the trust agreement, and may enforce and compel the performance of all duties required by this act or by the trust agreement, to be performed by the corporation or by any officer thereof.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 121c - Economic Development and Industrial Corporations › Section 16 - Provisions Inconsistent With Other Law Controlling

Section 16. Insofar as the provisions of this chapter are inconsistent with the provisions of any other law, general or special, excluding any state or the municipal building code and the municipal zoning code, the provisions of this chapter shall be controlling.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 121d - Affordable Housing Trust Fund › Section 1 - Definitions

Section 1. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings:-
''Agency'', the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency, established by section 3 of chapter 708 of the acts of 1966.
''Committee'', the advisory committee established by section 4.
''Fund'', the Affordable Housing Trust Fund established by section 2.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 121d - Affordable Housing Trust Fund › Section 5 - Annual Report; Contents

Section 5. The Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency shall, as part of its annual report requirement set forth in section 14 of chapter 708 of the Acts of 1966, detail all expenditures from the fund, including but not limited to the recipient of the funds, the cost of administration, and the number of units constructed, acquired and rehabilitated.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 121e - Housing Innovations Trust Fund › Section 1 - Definitions

Section 1. "Alternative forms of rental and ownership housing'', shall include, but not be limited to: single room occupancy units; limited equity cooperative housing; transitional or permanent housing for the homeless; shelters for victims of domestic abuse; mutual housing; housing acquired by nonprofit entities pursuant to Title II of the National Emergency Low Income Housing Preservation Act of 1987 and Title VI of the National Affordable Housing Act of 1990 ; employer assisted housing; lease-to-purchase housing; housing produced pursuant to a court-approved receivership; innovative forms of housing which seek to mitigate the adverse impact on housing affordability in communities with high concentrations of college or university students; joint projects between municipalities or housing development agencies and institutions of higher education designed to produce or preserve affordable units within those areas; and other innovative forms of housing.
"Area median income'', income as determined by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.
"Authorities'', the Massachusetts Development Finance Agency established in chapter 23G, community development corporations established pursuant to chapter 40F, the Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation established in chapter 40H, operating agencies established pursuant to chapter 121B, the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency, established in chapter 708 of the acts of 1966 and nonprofit agencies certified by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development as community housing development organizations.
[ Definition of "Department'' effective until May 30, 2023. For text effective May 30, 2023, see below.]
"Department'', the department of housing and community development.
[ Definition of "Department'' as amended by 2023, 7, Sec. 278 effective May 30, 2023. See 2023, 7, Sec. 298. For text effective until May 30, 2023, see above.]
"Department'', the executive office of housing and livable communities.
"Fund'', the Housing Innovations Trust Fund established in section 2.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 121e - Housing Innovations Trust Fund › Section 2 - Housing Innovations Trust Fund; Administration; Projects

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 of alternative forms of rental and ownership housing; provided, however, that 25 per cent of the beneficiaries of the fund shall be persons whose income shall not exceed 30 per cent of the area median income and 50 per cent of the beneficiaries of the fund shall be persons whose income not exceed 80 per cent of the area median income. The department shall give preference to those projects that provide transitional or permanent housing for homeless individuals and families and disabled persons. The fund shall be an expendable trust fund and shall not be subject to appropriation.
(b) There shall be credited to the fund revenue from appropriations or other monies authorized by the general court and specifically designated for the fund and any gifts, grants, private contributions, repayment of loans, fees and charges imposed relative to the making of loans, grants, subsidies, credit enhancements and other financial assistance, investment income earned on the fund's assets and any other sources. Money remaining in the fund at the end of a fiscal year shall not revert to the General Fund.
(c) The department shall provide assistance from the fund using only the criteria established in this chapter for projects owned or sponsored by authorities including but not limited to, projects that involve complex multiple-source financing or the preservation of existing affordable housing; provided, however, that no assistance shall be authorized unless the sponsor thereof is current on all existing mortgage obligations with the commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof. The department shall enter into agreements with the Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation to provide assistance from the fund for projects owned or sponsored by nonprofit organizations.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 121e - Housing Innovations Trust Fund › Section 6 - Annual Report; Contents

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 limited to, the recipient of the funds, the cost of administration and the number of units constructed, acquired and rehabilitated.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 121f - Housing Stabilization and Investment Trust Fund › Section 1 - Definitions

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.
[ Definition of "Department'' effective until May 30, 2023. For text effective May 30, 2023, see below.]
"Department'', the department of housing and community development.
[ Definition of "Department'' as amended by 2023, 7, Sec. 279 effective May 30, 2023. See 2023, 7, Sec. 298. For text effective until May 30, 2023, see above.]
"Department,'' the executive office of housing and livable communities.
"Fund'', the Housing Stabilization and Investment Trust Fund established in section 2.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 121f - Housing Stabilization and Investment Trust Fund › Section 2 - Housing Stabilization and Investment Trust Fund; Administration; Projects

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 emphasis on the local and regional needs for the purpose of undertaking projects to develop and support affordable housing developments and homeownership affordability, through the acquisition, preservation, new construction and rehabilitation of affordable housing. The program may include assistance for projects to stabilize and promote reinvestment in cities and towns including, but not limited to, acquisition, rehabilitation, new construction and preservation of foreclosed and distressed properties and any other techniques necessary to achieve reinvestment; provided, further, that funds from this item may be expended for the purpose of energy audits and housing modifications to achieve energy efficiency and conservation. The fund shall be an expendable trust fund and shall not be subject to appropriation.
(b) There shall be credited to the fund, revenue from appropriations or other monies authorized by the general court and specifically designated for the fund and any gifts, grants, private contributions, repayment of loans, fees and charges imposed relative to the making of loans, grants, subsidies, credit enhancements and other financial assistance, investment income earned on the fund's assets and any other sources. Money remaining in the fund at the end of a fiscal year shall not revert to the General Fund.
(c) The department shall provide assistance from the fund using only the criteria established in this chapter for projects owned or sponsored by nonprofit or for-profit organizations including, but not limited to, projects that involve complex multiple-source financing or the preservation of existing affordable housing; provided, however, that no assistance shall be authorized unless the sponsor thereof is current on all existing mortgage obligations with the commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof. The department shall enter into agreements with Massachusetts Housing Partnership Fund established in section 35 of chapter 405 of the acts of 1985 or the Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation established in chapter 40H to provide assistance from the fund for projects owned or sponsored by nonprofit organizations.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 121f - Housing Stabilization and Investment Trust Fund › Section 6 - Annual Report; Contents

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 limited to, the recipient of the funds, the cost of administration and the number of units constructed, acquired and rehabilitated.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 121g - Capital Improvement and Preservation Trust Fund › Section 1 - Definitions

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.
[ Definition of "Department'' effective until May 30, 2023. For text effective May 30, 2023, see below.]
"Department'', the department of housing and community development.
[ Definition of "Department'' as amended by 2023, 7, Sec. 280 effective May 30, 2023. See 2023, 7, Sec. 298. For text effective until May 30, 2023, see above.]
"Department'', the executive office of housing and livable communities.
"Fund'', the Capital Improvement and Preservation Trust Fund established in section 2.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 121g - Capital Improvement and Preservation Trust Fund › Section 2 - Capital Improvement and Preservation Trust Fund; Administration; Eligible Property; Projects

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 housing. Property eligible for assistance shall include housing where the prepayment or payment of a state or federally-assisted mortgage or the expiration of federal or state low-income housing tax credits or other federal or state subsidies would lead or has led to the termination of a use agreement for low-income housing or in which a project-based rental assistance contract is expiring or has expired. Preference for the loans or grants from the fund shall be given to nonprofit organizations and housing authorities seeking to purchase eligible property. The fund shall be an expendable trust fund and shall not be subject to appropriation. An eligible property that has been acquired for the purpose of preserving or improving the property shall not lose eligibility due to actions by the purchaser to renew or extend state or federal contracts or subsidies.
(b) There shall be credited to the fund, revenue from appropriations or other monies authorized by the general court and specifically designated for the fund and any gifts, grants, private contributions, repayment of loans, fees and charges imposed relative to the making of loans or grants, subsidies, credit enhancements and other financial assistance, investment income earned on the fund's assets and any other sources. Money remaining in the fund at the end of a fiscal year shall not revert to the General Fund.
(c) The department shall provide assistance from the fund using only the criteria established in this chapter for projects owned or sponsored by nonprofit or for-profit organizations including, but not limited to, projects that involve complex multiple-source financing or the preservation of existing affordable housing; provided, however, that no assistance shall be authorized unless the sponsor thereof is current on all existing mortgage obligations with the commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof. The department shall enter into agreements with the Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation established in chapter 40H to provide assistance from the fund for projects owned or sponsored by nonprofit organizations.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 121g - Capital Improvement and Preservation Trust Fund › Section 3 - Preference in Allocation of Funds

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 Partnership Fund established in section 35 of chapter 405 of the acts of 1985 shall identify those projects at greatest risk of prepayment or nonrenewal of rental assistance and shall grant preference in allocating funds pursuant to this chapter to those projects. The department shall enter into agreements to ensure that not less than 50 per cent of the units in such housing shall be occupied and affordable to persons of income of 80 per cent or less of the area median income and that not less than 10 per cent of such affordable units is available and affordable to households with income of 50 per cent or less of the area median income or such greater percentage of units as required by the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency or the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development regulations. The department may enter into subcontracts with community development corporations, for-profit organizations or nonprofit organizations to carry out the purposes of the grants and loans and shall enter into contracts with the Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation, the Massachusetts Housing Finance agency and the Massachusetts Housing Partnership Fund. A portion of the funds may be allocated in the form of predevelopment grants or loans from the Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation and the Massachusetts Housing Partnership Fund to nonprofit purchasers of the housing. The housing shall remain affordable for not less than 40 years or for such longer period, based upon the useful life of the housing as determined by the department, as may be specified in the applicable recorded restriction at the registry of deeds or the registry district of the land court of the county in which the affected real property is located.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 121g - Capital Improvement and Preservation Trust Fund › Section 5 - Annual Report; Contents

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 limited to, the recipient of the funds, the cost of administration, and the number of units constructed, acquired and rehabilitated.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 122 - Tewksbury Hospital › Section 1 - Supervision; Inpatient and Outpatient Services

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 appropriation and subject to the provisions of sections twenty-five B to twenty-five G, inclusive, of chapter one hundred and eleven, the department shall be authorized to establish at the Tewksbury hospital, with the approval of the superintendent and the trustees, any inpatient or outpatient services, including but not limited to medical, surgical, restorative, rehabilitative or chronic services, mental health and mental retardation services, extended care services, dental services, rehabilitative therapy services, family planning services, services for treatment of alcoholism and drug addiction, skilled nursing care services, intermediate care facility services, and residency care services.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 122 - Tewksbury Hospital › Section 2 - Board of Trustees; Number; Appointment

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 year thereafter only one such trustee shall be appointed.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 122 - Tewksbury Hospital › Section 3 - Board of Trustees; Powers and Duties; Appointment of Superintendent

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, shall appoint a superintendent thereof, who may be the medical director. No member of the board of trustees shall be employed at the hospital.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 122 - Tewksbury Hospital › Section 5 - Corporate Status of Trustees; Powers and Duties

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 made for the use or benefit of the Tewksbury hospital, its patients or former patients, and for the purpose of preserving and investing the proceeds thereof in notes or bonds secured by good and sufficient mortgages or other security, with all the powers necessary to effect said purposes. For said purposes the trustees may employ such agencies as they may from time to time determine to be wise and proper, including any trust company or other corporation authorized by law to administer trusts, and may from funds received as aforesaid or the income thereof pay such expenses as may be necessary for the wise administration of such gifts or trusts, or may delegate any powers conferred by this section upon any such trust company or corporation. In the use, management and administration of such gifts or trusts, the trustees or their agents shall in their discretion so act as most effectively to aid the beneficiaries in accordance with the terms of the gift or trust, and when so acting their judgments and determinations in extending or denying aid or benefit to any individual shall be conclusive and final. No trustee shall be answerable for the use of any money or property received by any beneficiary or for the default or neglect of any co-trustee, or of any agent employed hereunder, or of any corporation to which power is delegated or transferred as herein authorized.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 122 - Tewksbury Hospital › Section 6 - Deposit of Funds by Superintendent

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 their benefit or may use said funds to purchase share accounts of a federal savings and loan association located in the commonwealth, in an account entitled ''Patients' Funds'', or the superintendent may, whenever he deems it desirable, deposit such funds in such banks in separate accounts as trustee or use said funds to purchase share accounts of a federal savings and loan association located in the commonwealth, as trustee, in each instance, for the patient.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 122 - Tewksbury Hospital › Section 7 - Unclaimed Patients' Funds; Disposition

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 state treasurer to be held subject to be paid to the person establishing a lawful right thereto, with interest at the rate of three per cent per annum from the time when it was so paid to the state treasurer to the time when it is paid by him to such person; provided, that so much of any monies so paid to the state treasurer as may be necessary to reimburse the trustees for any sum due for the support of the person by whom or for whose benefit such money was originally deposited shall be credited to said trustees for that purpose. After six years from the date when any such monies were paid to the state treasurer the same or any balance thereof then remaining in his hands may be used as a part of the ordinary revenue of the commonwealth. Any person may, however, establish his claim after the expiration of the six years above mentioned, and any claim so established shall be paid from the ordinary revenue of the commonwealth. Any person claiming a right to money deposited with the state treasurer under this section may establish the same by a petition to the probate court; provided, that in cases where claims amount to less than fifty dollars, the claims may be presented to the comptroller who shall examine the same and allow and certify for payment such as may be proved to his satisfaction.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 122 - Tewksbury Hospital › Section 8 - Unclaimed Patients' Valuables; Disposition; Record

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 representative of the trustees designated by them acting as a special board for said purpose, but only if all known next of kin of the former patient shall have been notified in writing by the said superintendent. The board shall ascertain whether the property has any sale value and, if so, shall solicit from at least three reputable dealers in like property offers for the purchase thereof, and shall sell the same to the dealer offering the highest price. The proceeds of such sale shall become a part of the ''Patients' Funds'' and shall be disposed of as provided in section seven. The board may dispose of such of said property as, in its opinion, has no sale value, or any of said property for which no offer, solicited as aforesaid, has been received, in such manner as it may deem proper. A complete record of each transaction hereunder shall be made and signed by both members of the board and filed with the other records at said hospital relating to the former patient whose property shall have been disposed of as aforesaid.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 122 - Tewksbury Hospital › Section 9 - Unclaimed Bank Books of Former Patients; Payment to Trustees

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 presented by the trustees to such bank or trust company accompanied by their written request for payment to them of such deposit account except so much as is in excess of the amount due the commonwealth for the support of such patient, and such bank or trust company shall thereupon pay to the trustees the amount so requested.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 122 - Tewksbury Hospital › Section 10 - Powers of Trustees Relative to Patients and Their Property

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 place or country from which they came.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 122 - Tewksbury Hospital › Section 11 - Receiving of Persons

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 institutions department of the city of Boston, or from some one duly authorized by said boards or said departments, and shall provide for them under the rules and regulations made under section four.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 122 - Tewksbury Hospital › Section 12 - Removal of Persons to Places of Residence

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, may remove said person, if in its judgment it is for the interest of the commonwealth and of said person.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 122 - Tewksbury Hospital › Section 13 - Removal of Persons Infected With Dangerous Disease; Expenses

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 best for his accommodation and the safety of the public, which place shall be subject to the regulations of said department, and it shall have the same authority to remove such person thereto as is conferred upon boards of health by section ninety-five of chapter one hundred and eleven, and any expenses incurred in carrying out this section may be paid from the annual appropriation to the department of transitional assistance for expenses in connection with smallpox and other diseases dangerous to the public health.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 122 - Tewksbury Hospital › Section 14 - Admission of Persons Affected With Diseases; Expenses

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 dangerous to the public health, or whose health would be injured or endangered by removal, may be admitted to the Tewksbury Hospital, with the approval of the superintendent and the trustees, providing the hospital is suitable for the care and treatment of such person. The department may make rules and regulations for such admission and to facilitate the operation of this section.
The expenses of the maintenance of such a patient shall be paid by him, his executor or administrator, except that persons in need of public assistance shall have the responsibility for payment of such charges fixed in accordance with the provisions of the particular category of assistance under which they are aided. Persons or kindred bound by law to support such needy persons, not eligible for public assistance, shall be assessed in accordance with rates established by the executive office of health and human services or a governmental unit designated by the executive office.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 122 - Tewksbury Hospital › Section 15 - Contracts for Employment of Patients; Discharge; Forfeiture of Support

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, such patient shall be discharged from said institution, and, if he refuses to accept the employment offered, shall forfeit all claim to support.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 122 - Tewksbury Hospital › Section 16 - Liability of Kindred for Support

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 such expenses from the kindred so liable as are prescribed for towns in like cases.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 122 - Tewksbury Hospital › Section 22 - Treasurer of Banking Institutions; Failure to Disclose Deposits, etc.; Penalty

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 inform him of the amount deposited in the corporation, association, or credit union to the credit of a person named in such request who is a charge upon the commonwealth, or who wilfully renders false information in reply to such request, shall forfeit fifty dollars to the use of the commonwealth.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 122 - Tewksbury Hospital › Section 23 - Unlawful Possession of Liquids or Articles by Patients With Intent to Consume as Inebriants

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 consumption, shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars or by imprisonment in a jail or house of correction for not more than six months. This section shall not apply to the possession, handling or consumption of any such liquid or article under lawful directions of a physician.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 123 - Mental Health › Section 2 - Regulations

Section 2. The department shall, in accordance with section two of chapter thirty A and subject to appropriation, adopt regulations consistent with this chapter which establish procedures and the highest practicable professional standards for the reception, examination, treatment, restraint, transfer and discharge of mentally ill persons in departmental facilities. Said regulations shall be adaptable to changing conditions and to advances in methods of care and treatment of the mentally ill. Said regulations (1) shall include, but not necessarily be limited to, provisions for inpatient care, both during the day and at night, halfway house services, family care, aftercare and home treatment, (2) shall define the categories of mental illness for the purpose of this chapter, and (3) may provide for different procedures for specific types of patients or for particular facilities.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 123 - Mental Health › Section 2a - Geographically-Isolated Communities; Factors to Be Considered by Department When Contracting for Services to Be Established by Regulation

Section 2A. When promulgating regulations governing the contracting for services, the department shall establish within its regulations additional factors to be considered when contracting for services in geographically-isolated communities, including, but not limited to, travel and transportation, to ensure availability and access to services.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 123 - Mental Health › Section 3 - Transfers; Notice; Emergencies

Section 3. The department may transfer any person from any facility to any other facility which the department determines is suitable for the care and treatment of such person; provided that no transfer to a private facility shall occur except with the approval of the superintendent thereof. At least six days before a transfer from a facility occurs, the superintendent shall give written notice thereof to the person and to the nearest relative, unless said person knowingly objects, or guardian of such person; provided, however, if the transfer must be made immediately because of an emergency, such notice shall be given within twenty-four hours after the transfer. Except in emergency cases, no person who at any time prior to transfer has given notice of his intention to leave a facility under the provisions of section eleven shall be transferred until a final determination has been made as to whether such person should be retained in a facility.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 123 - Mental Health › Section 5 - Commitment or Retention Hearings; Right to Counsel; Medical Examination; Notice

Section 5. Whenever the provisions of this chapter require that a hearing be conducted in any court for the commitment or further retention of a person to a facility or to the Bridgewater state hospital or for medical treatment including treatment with antipsychotic medication, it shall be held as hereinafter provided. Such person shall have the right to be represented by counsel and shall have the right to present independent testimony. The court shall appoint counsel for such person whom it finds to be indigent and who is not represented by counsel, unless such person refuses the appointment of counsel. The court may provide an independent medical examination for such indigent person upon request of his counsel or upon his request if he is not represented by counsel. The person shall be allowed not less than two days after the appearance of his counsel in which to prepare his case and a hearing shall be conducted forthwith after such period unless counsel requests a delay. Notice of the time and place of hearing shall be furnished by the court to the department, the person, his counsel, and his nearest relative or guardian. The court may hold the hearing at the facility or said hospital.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 123 - Mental Health › Section 6 - Retention of Persons; Validity of Orders; Hearing

Section 6. (a) No person shall be retained at a facility or at the Bridgewater state hospital except under the provisions of paragraph (a) of section ten, the provisions of paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) of section twelve, section thirteen, paragraph (e) of section sixteen and section thirty-five or except under a court order or except during the pendency of a petition for commitment or to the pendency of a request under section fourteen. A court order of commitment to a facility or to the Bridgewater state hospital shall be valid for the period stipulated in this chapter or, if no such period is so stipulated, for one year. A petition for the commitment of a person may not be issued except as authorized under the provisions of this chapter.
(b) Following the filing of a petition for a commitment to a facility or to the Bridgewater state hospital, a hearing shall be held unless waived in writing by the person after consultation with his counsel. In the event the hearing is waived, the person may request a hearing for good cause shown at any time during the period of commitment.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XVII - Public Welfare › Chapter 123 - Mental Health › Section 7 - Commitment and Retention of Dangerous Persons; Petition; Notice; Hearing

Section 7. (a) The superintendent of a facility may petition the district court or the division of the juvenile court department in whose jurisdiction the facility is located for the commitment to said facility and retention of any patient at said facility whom said superintendent determines that the failure to hospitalize would create a likelihood of serious harm by reason of mental illness.
(b) The medical director of the Bridgewater state hospital, the commissioner of mental health, or with the approval of the commissioner of mental health, the superintendent of a facility, may petition the district court or the division of the juvenile court department in whose jurisdiction the facility or hospital is located for the commitment to the Bridgewater state hospital of any male patient at said facility or hospital when it is determined that the failure to hospitalize in strict security would create a likelihood of serious harm by reason of mental illness.
(c) Whenever a court receives a petition filed under any provisions of this chapter for an order of commitment of a person to a facility or to the Bridgewater state hospital, such court shall notify the person, and his nearest relative or guardian, of the receipt of such petition and of the date a hearing on such petition is to be held. The hearing on a petition brought for commitment pursuant to paragraph (e) of section 15, and sections 16 and 18, or for a subsequent commitment pursuant to paragraph (d) of section 8 shall be commenced within 14 days of the filing of the petition, unless a delay is requested by the person or his counsel. For all other persons, the hearing shall be commenced within 5 days of the filing of the petition, unless a delay is requested by the person or his counsel. The periods of time prescribed or allowed under the provisions of this section shall be computed pursuant to Rule 6 of the Massachusetts Rules of Civil Procedure.