No person shall be required to register due to the ownership or possession of the following:

(1) Electrical equipment not primarily intended to produce radiation and which does not produce radiation at any point which may be occupied by a person at a rate exceeding three-fourths (3/4) of one (1) milliroentgen per hour;

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 68-202-209

  • 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.
  • Person: means an individual, trust, firm, joint stock company, corporation (including a government corporation), partnership, association, state, municipality, commission, political subdivision of a state, any interstate body, any governmental agency of this state and any department, agency or instrumentality of the federal government. See Tennessee Code 68-202-202
  • Radiation: includes all ionizing electromagnetic waves and corpuscular emissions such as, but not necessarily limited to, gamma rays and X-rays. See Tennessee Code 68-202-202
(2) Radiation machines which are deemed to be totally unusable except for salvage parts;
(3) Radiation machines being transported in conformity with regulations adopted by any federal agency having jurisdiction over safety during transportation;
(4) Such other radiation machines as may be exempted by the rules and regulations promulgated under this part, if such sources are known or proven by competent scientific analysis to be without hazard; or
(5) Radiation sources which may be licensed as provided for by § 68-202-206.
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