Terms Used In California Codes > Code of Civil Procedure > Part 2 > Title 5 > Chapter 1 > Article 3 - Jurisdiction in Action

• Byproduct material: means any radioactive material, except special nuclear material, yielded in, or made radioactive by exposure to the radiation incident to, the process of producing or utilizing special nuclear material. See California Health and Safety Code 114985
• County: includes city and county. See California Health and Safety Code 14
• decontamination: as used in this chapter , means the reduction of the level of contamination from radioactive material to the level that the department determines is reasonably necessary to eliminate the hazard to public health that is caused by the contamination of any object, building, structure, or premises. See California Health and Safety Code 115180
• department: means State Department of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 20
• Department: means Department of Industrial Relations. See California Labor Code 19
• Department: means the State Department of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 114985
• Director: means the State Director of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 114985
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• High-level radioactive waste: means either of the following:

  California Health and Safety Code 114985

• Ionizing radiation: means gamma rays and X-rays. See California Health and Safety Code 114985
• Low-level waste: means radioactive waste not classified as high-level radioactive waste, transuranic waste, spent nuclear fuel, or the byproduct material defined in Section 11(e)(2) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U. See California Health and Safety Code 114985
• Mammogram: means an X-ray image of the human breast. See California Health and Safety Code 114985
• Mammography: means the procedure for creating a mammogram. See California Health and Safety Code 114985
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Person: means any individual, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, firm, association, trust, estate, public or private institution, group, agency, political subdivision of this state, any other state or political subdivision or agency thereof, and any legal successor, representative, agent, or agency of the foregoing, other than the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the United States Department of Energy, or any successor thereto, and other than federal government agencies licensed by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, under prime contract to the United States Department of Energy, or any successor thereto. See California Health and Safety Code 114985
• Person: includes any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company, limited liability company, syndicate, estate, trust, business trust, or organization of any kind. See California Financial Code 18
• Radiologic Technology Act: means Sections 106965 to 107115, inclusive, and Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 114840) of Part 9 of Division 104. See California Health and Safety Code 27
• Registration: means the reporting of possession of a source of radiation and the furnishing of information with respect thereto, in accordance with subdivision (b) of Section 115060. See California Health and Safety Code 114985
• secretary: means the Secretary of the Resources Agency. See California Health and Safety Code 114908
• Secretary: means the Secretary of the Resources Agency. See California Health and Safety Code 114985
• Source material: means (1) uranium, thorium, or any other material which the department declares by rule to be source material after the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, or any successor thereto, has determined the material to be such. See California Health and Safety Code 114985
• Special nuclear material: means (1) plutonium, uranium 233, uranium enriched in the isotope 233 or in the isotope 235, and any other material which the department declares by rule to be special nuclear material after the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, or any successor thereto, has determined the material to be such, but does not include source material. See California Health and Safety Code 114985
• Spent nuclear fuel: means fuel that has been withdrawn from a nuclear reactor following irradiation, the constituent elements of which have not been separated by reprocessing. See California Health and Safety Code 114985
• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 23
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Transuranic waste: means any waste containing more than 100 nanocuries of alpha emitting transuranic nuclides with half-life greater than five years per gram of waste material. See California Health and Safety Code 114985