{"data":{"id":"us-me/34-b-m.r.s.-1402","jurisdiction":"us-me","citation":"34-B M.R.S. §1402","heading":"Community services","body":"1.  Commissioner's duty.  In every state institution to which a person with mental illness or an intellectual disability may be committed, the commissioner shall organize and administer the duties set forth in subsection 2.\n2.  Duties.  The department shall:\nA.  Supervise clients who have left the institution with a view to their safe care at home, suitable employment and self-support under good working and living conditions, and with a view to prevention of their relapse and return to public dependency;\nB.  Provide for informing and advising any indigent person, that person's relatives or friends and the representatives of any charitable agency as to:\n(1)  The mental condition of the indigent person;\n(2)  The prevention and treatment of the condition;\n(3)  The available institutions or other means of caring for the person; and\n(4)  Any other matter relative to the welfare of the person; and\nC.  Acquire and disseminate knowledge of mental disease, intellectual disabilities, autism and other related conditions with a view to promoting a better understanding and the most enlightened public sentiment and policy in these matters, and in this work the department may cooperate with local authorities, schools and social agencies.","path":["TITLE 34-B: BEHAVIORAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES","CHAPTER 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS","SUBCHAPTER 3: INSTITUTIONS GENERALLY","ARTICLE 1: ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS"],"source_url":"https://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/34-B/title34-Bsec1402.html","current_through":"October 1, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-04T15:12:39Z","sha256":"51c568a83fea50b2c6693c27f572bb6775d7b3df6bf22bb00a502d2acd5def38","source_id":"us-me","stale":false,"prev":"us-me/34-b-m.r.s.-1401","next":"us-me/34-b-m.r.s.-1403"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}