Georgia Code, Title 31, Chapter 13 - Radiation Control

• § 31-13-1 - Short Title
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Georgia Radiation Control Act."
• § 31-13-2 - Declaration of Policy
  It is the policy of this state, in furtherance of its responsibility to protect the environment and the public health and safety of its...
• § 31-13-3 - Definitions
  As used in this chapter, the term: (1) "Accelerator produced radioactive material" means any material made radioactive by a particle accelerator. (1.1) "By-product material"...
• § 31-13-4 - Administration of State-Wide Radiation Control Program for Radiation Generating Equipment
  The Department of Community Health is designated the state agency to administer a state-wide radiation control program for radiation generating equipment consistent with this...
• § 31-13-4.1 - Administration of State-Wide Radiation Control Program for Radioactive Materials
  The Department of Natural Resources is designated the state agency to administer a state-wide radiation control program for radioactive materials consistent with this chapter.
• § 31-13-5 - Powers and Duties of Department of Community Health and Department of Natural Resources; Enforcement of Chapter Through Inspection; Training Programs
  (a) For the protection of the public health and safety, the Department of Community Health, with regard to radiation generating equipment, and the Department...
• § 31-13-6 - Bonding Licensees
  (a) The Department of Natural Resources may require the posting of a bond not to exceed $5 million by an existing general or specific...
• § 31-13-7 - Permits for Disposal of Radioactive Waste; Bonding of Permittees
  (a) No person shall construct or operate a site or other facility for the concentration, storage, or burial of radioactive waste without first securing...
• § 31-13-8 - Licensing Users of By-Product, Source, and Special Nuclear Materials As Sources of Ionizing Radiation
  (a) The Governor, on behalf of this state, is authorized to enter into agreements with the federal government providing for discontinuance of certain responsibilities...
• § 31-13-8.1 - General or Specific Licensing for Use, Manufacture, Transport, Transactions In, and Possession of Radioactive Material
  The Department of Natural Resources shall establish, manage, and administer a program for the general or specific licensing of persons to use, manufacture, produce,...
• § 31-13-8.2 - Licensing of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Medical Uses of Radioactive Materials
  The Department of Community Health is authorized to provide by rule or regulation for the registration and periodic renewal of registration of persons to...
• § 31-13-9 - Records of Use of Radiation Sources and Exposure of Employees to Radiation
  (a) The Department of Community Health and the Department of Natural Resources are authorized to require, in accordance with applicable provisions of this chapter,...
• § 31-13-10 - Suspension, Revocation, and Amendment of License or Registration; Emergency Orders; Review
  (a) The Department of Natural Resources may refuse to grant a license as provided in Code Section 31-13-8 or 31-13-8.1 and the Department of...
• § 31-13-11 - Impounding and Condemnation of Radiation Generating Equipment and Radioactive Materials
  (a) In the event of an emergency, the Department of Community Health shall have the authority to impound or order the impounding of radiation...
• § 31-13-12 - License Required
  It shall be unlawful for any person to use, manufacture, assemble, distribute, produce, transport, receive, acquire, own, or possess any source of radiation required...
• § 31-13-13 - Penalties
  (a) Any person who violates the provisions of Code Section 31-13-7 or any rule or regulation promulgated pursuant to such Code section, or who...
• § 31-13-14 - Inspections and Investigations
  The director or his duly authorized representatives shall have the power to enter at reasonable times upon any private or public property for the...
• § 31-13-15 - Investigation of Apparent Violations; Initiation of Legal Proceedings
  The director shall have the authority to investigate any apparent violation of this chapter and to take any action authorized under this chapter as...
• § 31-13-16 - Authorization to Remedy Violation by Conference, Conciliation, or Persuasion; Order to Undertake Corrective Action
  Whenever the director has reason to believe that a violation of any provision of this chapter or any rule or regulation adopted pursuant to...
• § 31-13-17 - Declaration of Existence of Emergency
  Whenever the director finds that an emergency exists requiring immediate action to protect the public health, safety, or well-being, the director, with the concurrence...
• § 31-13-18 - Hearing on Order or Notice of Action
  Whenever a person is aggrieved or adversely affected by any action or by any order or orders of the director, such person may request...
• § 31-13-19 - Judicial Review
  Any person who has exhausted all administrative remedies available before the director and who is aggrieved by a final order or action in a...
• § 31-13-20 - Filing Certified Copy of Unappealed Final Order or Affirmed Order
  The director may file in the superior court of the county wherein the person under order resides or, if such person is a corporation,...
• § 31-13-21 - Temporary or Permanent Injunction; Restraining Order
  Whenever, in the judgment of the director, any person has engaged in or is about to engage in any act or practice which constitutes...
• § 31-13-22 - Representation of Director in Actions
  It shall be the duty of the Attorney General or his representative to represent the director in all actions in connection with this chapter.
• § 31-13-23 - Transfer of Powers and Duties Between Department of Natural Resources and Department of Community Health
  The Governor shall have the authority to transfer powers and duties enumerated in this chapter between the Department of Natural Resources and the Department...
• § 31-13-24 - Effect on Proceedings Commenced Before April 4, 1990; Continuation of Federal Aid to Agency Receiving Transfer of Functions
  This chapter shall not affect the validity of any judicial or administrative proceeding pending or which was commenced before April 4, 1990, and any...
• § 31-13-25 - Rules, Regulations, Agreements, and Contracts Formerly Under Department of Human Resources (Now Known As the Department of Community Health for These Purposes)
  All rules and regulations, agreements, contracts, or other instruments which involve radioactive materials heretofore under the jurisdiction of the Department of Human Resources (now...

Last modified: October 14, 2016