Scope and Enabling Authority

(1) Scope. 115 CMR 5.00 applies to all providers and to all services or supports operated, certified, licensed, or contracted for or otherwise funded by the Department. (2) Enabling Authority. The Department is directed by M.G.L. c. 123B, § 2 to adopt regulations that establish procedures and the highest practicable professional standards for the reception, examination, treatment, restraint, transfer and discharge of persons with intellectual disability in public or private facilities for the care and treatment of such persons and for community services for persons with developmental disabilities (autism spectrum disorder and Prader-Willi and Smith-Magenis syndromes). 115 CMR is subject to appropriation.