Arkansas Code Title 20, Subtitle 2, Chapter 21, Subchapter 2 - Ionizing Radiation

• § 20-21-201 - Declaration of Policy.
  It is the policy of the State of Arkansas in furtherance of its responsibility to protect the occupational and public health and safety, to...
• § 20-21-202 - Purpose.
  It is the purpose of this subchapter to effectuate the policies set forth in § 20-21-201 by providing a program: (1) Of effective regulation...
• § 20-21-203 - Definitions.
  As used in this subchapter: (1) "Accelerator or particle accelerator, medical" means a device used to impart kinetic energy of not greater than one...
• § 20-21-204 - Penalties.
  (a) Criminal Penalties. Any person who willfully violates any of the provisions of this subchapter or rules, regulations, or orders in effect pursuant thereto...
• § 20-21-205 - Enforcement.
  (a) (1) The State Radiation Control Agency or its authorized representative shall for reasonable cause have the power to enter at all reasonable times...
• § 20-21-206 - State Radiation Control Agency -- Designation -- Employees.
  (a) The State Board of Health is designated as the State Radiation Control Agency.(b) The Director of the Department of Health shall designate an...
• § 20-21-207 - State Radiation Control Agency -- Powers and Duties Generally.
  For the protection of the occupational and public health and safety, the State Radiation Control Agency shall: (1) Develop programs for evaluation and control...
• § 20-21-208 - State Radiation Control Agency -- Powers and Duties -- Ionizing Radiation.
  (a) The State Radiation Control Agency may require registration or licensing of other sources of ionizing radiation.(b) The agency may exempt certain sources of...
• § 20-21-209 - State Radiation Control Agency -- Recognition of Other Licenses.
  Rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to this subchapter may provide for recognition of other state or federal licenses as the State Radiation Control Agency...
• § 20-21-210 - State Radiation Control Agency -- Application.
  The provisions of §§ 20-21-206 -- 20-21-211 shall not apply to any production or utilization facility for which the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission...
• § 20-21-211 - State Radiation Control Agency -- Construction.
  Sections 20-21-206 -- 20-21-210 are cumulative and are intended to supplement existing laws, and no part shall be construed to repeal any existing law...
• § 20-21-212 - License or Registration Required.
  It shall be unlawful for any person to use, manufacture, produce, distribute, sell, transport, transfer, install, repair, receive, acquire, own, or possess any source...
• § 20-21-213 - Licensing and Registration Requirements Generally.
  (a) The State Radiation Control Agency shall provide by rule or regulation for general or specific licensing of accelerator-produced material, by-product material, source material,...
• § 20-21-214 - Licensing and Registration Requirements -- Sources of Ionizing Radiation.
  (a) The State Radiation Control Agency shall require registration or licensing of other sources of ionizing radiation.(b) The agency may exempt certain sources of...
• § 20-21-215 - Licensing and Registration Requirements -- Recognition of Other Licenses.
  Rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to this subchapter may provide for recognition of other state or federal licenses as the State Radiation Control Agency...
• § 20-21-216 - Licensing and Registration Requirements -- Termination.
  (a) Any radioactive materials license issued or renewed after July 4, 1983, for any activity which results in the production of radioactive material shall...
• § 20-21-217 - Licensing and Registration Requirements -- Compliance With Standards -- Fees.
  (a) In licensing and regulation of radioactive material or of any activity which results in the production of radioactive materials so defined, the State...
• § 20-21-218 - Records.
  (a) (1) The State Radiation Control Agency shall require each person who manufactures, possesses, distributes, sells, installs, repairs, or uses a source of ionizing...
• § 20-21-219 - Storage of Radioactive Wastes.
  (a) The operation or administration of any sites acquired under this subchapter for the concentration and storage of radioactive wastes and by-products shall be...
• § 20-21-220 - Training Programs.
  The State Radiation Control Agency may institute training programs for the purpose of qualifying personnel to carry out the provisions of this subchapter and...
• § 20-21-221 - Intergovernmental Agreements.
  (a) (1) The Governor, on behalf of this state, may enter into agreements with the federal government providing for discontinuance of certain of the...
• § 20-21-222 - Administrative Proceedings.
  (a) Under this subchapter: (1) In any proceeding for the issuance or modification of rules or regulations relating to control of sources of ionizing...

Last modified: November 15, 2016