Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 23-1.3 - Radiation Control

• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Artificially produced radioactive material: means any radioactive material other than by-product material, special nuclear material, and source material which is produced by any unnatural process such as through the bombardment of material with high energy atomic particles. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-1.3-1
• By-product 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 Rhode Island General Laws 23-1.3-1
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Department: means the department of health. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-1.3-1
• Electronic product: means any manufactured product or device or component part of a product or device that has an electronic circuit which during operation can generate or emit a physical field of radiation. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-1.3-1
• in writing: include printing, engraving, lithographing, and photo-lithographing, and all other representations of words in letters of the usual form. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-16
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Naturally occurring radioactive material: means any radioactive material that is not otherwise defined in this section and whose origin is wholly the result of natural processes. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-1.3-1
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: means any individual, corporation, partnership, firm, association, trust, estate, public or private institution, group, agency, political subdivision of this state, any other state or political subdivision or agency of any other state, and any legal successor, representative, agent or agency of these, and other than federal government agencies licensed by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, or any successor to the commission. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-1.3-1
• Radiation: means :

  (i)  Ionizing radiation including gamma rays, x-rays, alpha particles, beta particles, and other atomic or nuclear particles or rays; and

  (ii)  Any electromagnetic radiation that can be generated during the operation of a microwave oven. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-1.3-1

• Radiation source: means any material or electronic product capable of emitting radiation. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-1.3-1
• Radioactive material: means any material, solid, liquid, or gas, that emits ionizing radiation spontaneously. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-1.3-1
• Registration: means the proper completion and filing with the state radiation control agency of a form provided by the agency, and containing information that the agency may require by its regulations. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-1.3-1
• Source material: means :

  (i)  Uranium, thorium, or any other material which the director of health declared by order to be a source material after the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, or any successor to the commission, has determined the material to be source material; or

  (ii)  Ores containing one or more of the materials listed in paragraph (i), in a concentration that the director of health declared by order to be source material after the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, or any successor to the commission, has determined the material in that concentration to be source material. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-1.3-1

• Special nuclear material: means :

  (i)  Plutonium, uranium 233, uranium enriched in the isotope 233 or in the isotope 235, and any other material which the director of health declared by order to be special nuclear material after the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, or any successor to the commission, has determined the material to be special nuclear material, but does not include source material; or

  (ii)  Any material artificially enriched by any of the material listed in paragraph (i), but does not include source material. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-1.3-1

• town: may be construed to include city; the words "town council" include city council; the words "town clerk" include city clerk; the words "ward clerk" include clerk of election district; the words "town treasurer" include city treasurer; and the words "town sergeant" include city sergeant. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-9
• United States: include the several states and the territories of the United States. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-8
• Unnecessary radiation: means radiation used in a manner that may present a hazard to the health of the people or the industrial or agricultural potentials or the ecology or wildlife of the state. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-1.3-1