Illinois Compiled Statutes 420 Nuclear Safety: Article -

• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 1
  Title. This Act shall be known and may be cited as the Radiation Protection Act of 1990. (Source: P.A. 86-1341.)
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 2
  Public policy. Whereas ionizing radiations and their sources can be instrumental in the improvement of the health and welfare of the public if properly...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 3
  Purpose. It is the purpose of this Act to effectuate the policies set forth in Section 2 by providing for: (1) a program of...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 4
  Definitions. As used in this Act: (a) "Accreditation" means the process by which the Agency grants permission to persons meeting the requirements of this Act...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 5
  Limitations on application of radiation to human beings and requirements for radiation installation operators providing mammography services. (a) No person shall intentionally administer radiation to...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 6
  Accreditation of administrators of radiation; Limited scope accreditation; Rules and regulations; Education. (a) The Agency shall promulgate such rules and regulations as are necessary to...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 7
  Administrators of radiation; application for accreditation and renewal; fees; Fund. Applications for accreditation and renewal shall be made upon forms prescribed and furnished by the...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 7a
  Certification of Industrial Radiographers. (a) Beginning January 1, 1993, no person may perform industrial radiography unless he or she is certified by the Department of...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 8
  Interchange of radiation sources. The sale, lease, transfer or loan of radiographic or fluoroscopic or therapeutic x-ray equipment or radioactive material, or the supplies...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 9
  Rules and regulations. No person shall use radiation in contravention of such rules and regulations as the Agency may make relating to the control of...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 10
  Licensing of certain sources of ionizing radiation. (1) The Agency shall provide by rule or regulation for general or specific licensing of by-product materials, source...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 11
  Federal-State Agreements. (1) The Governor, on behalf of this State, is authorized to enter into agreements with the Federal Government providing for discontinuance of certain...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 11.5
  State regulation of federal entities. The Agency is authorized to regulate federal entities (and their contractors) and radiation sources operated or possessed by federal entities...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 12
  State licensure of the use, manufacture or distribution of radioactive materials or devices or equipment utilizing or producing such materials not regulated by the United...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 13
  Custody of by-product disposal sites; storage and disposal fee. (1) Any radioactive materials license which authorizes any activity that results in the production of by-product...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 14
  Radiation Protection Advisory Council. There shall be created a Radiation Protection Advisory Council consisting of 7 members to be appointed by the Governor on the...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 15
  Radiologic Technologist Accreditation Advisory Board. (a) There shall be created a Radiologic Technologist Accreditation Advisory Board consisting of 13 members to be appointed by the...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 16
  Functions and powers of Agency. The Agency shall administer this Act and promulgate by codes, rules, regulations, or orders such standards and instructions to govern...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 17
  The Agency shall develop comprehensive policies and programs for the evaluation and determination of exposures associated with the use of radiation, and for their control....
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 18
  The Agency shall hold public hearings, receive pertinent and relevant proof from any party in interest who appears before the Agency, make findings of facts...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 19
  The Agency shall institute or cause to be instituted in the circuit court proceedings to compel compliance with the provisions of this Act or codes,...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 20
  The Agency shall advise, consult, and cooperate with other agencies of the State, the Federal Government, other States and interstate agencies, and with affected groups,...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 21
  The Agency shall accept and administer according to law loans, grants, or other funds or gifts from the Federal Government and from other sources, public...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 22
  The Agency shall encourage, participate in, or conduct studies, investigations, training, research, and demonstrations relating to the control or measurement of radiation, the effects on...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 23
  The Agency shall collect, maintain and disseminate health education information relating to radiation. (Source: P.A. 94-104, eff. 7-1-05.)
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 24
  The Agency shall with respect to radiation installations and radiation sources, responsibility for which has been transferred by the Federal Government to this State, review...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 24.5
  Mammography installation; federal and State programs. (a) The Agency may, with approval by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, exercise...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 24.7
  Registration requirement; fees. Beginning January 1, 2000, the Department of Nuclear Safety or its successor agency, the Illinois Emergency Management Agency, is authorized to require...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 25
  Radiation inspection and testing. (a) The Agency shall inspect and test radiation installations and radiation sources, their immediate surroundings and records concerning their operation to...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 25.1
  Each individual responsible for implementing a comprehensive radiation protection program for all hospitals and other facilities using mammography, computed tomography (CT), or therapeutic radiation machines...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 25.2
  Installation and servicing of radiation machines. (a) Beginning January 1, 2002, a service provider who installs or services radiation machines in the State of Illinois...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 26
  The Agency shall cause an investigation to be made upon receipt of information concerning a violation of the provisions of this Act or of any...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 27
  The Agency is authorized to enter at all reasonable times upon any private or public property for the purpose of determining whether or not there...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 28
  (a) The Agency shall require each person who possesses or uses a source of ionizing radiation to maintain records relating to its receipt, storage, transfer...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 29
  The Agency shall require each person who possesses or uses a source of ionizing radiation to maintain appropriate records showing the radiation exposure of all...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 30
  The Agency shall issue such orders or modifications thereof as may be necessary in connection with proceedings under Section 10 and other provisions of this...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 31
  Rulemaking; exemptions. (a) The provisions of the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act are hereby expressly adopted and shall apply to all administrative rules and procedures of...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 32
  Radiation emergency contingency plan. The Agency shall develop for its use, or for the use of its successor, a comprehensive contingency plan for the protection...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 33
  Agreements and training programs. (1) The Agency is authorized to enter into an agreement or agreements with the Federal Government, other States, interstate agencies, or...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 34
  All intrastate and interstate carriers of irradiated nuclear reactor fuel in the State of Illinois are hereby required to notify the Agency 24 hours prior...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 35
  Radiation Protection Fund. (a) All moneys received by the Agency under this Act shall be deposited in the State treasury and shall be set apart...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 36
  Order for violation abatement and public hearing. Whenever the Agency believes upon examination of records or inspection and examination of a radiation installation or a...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 37
  Administrative Review Law. The provisions of the Administrative Review Law, and the rules adopted pursuant thereto, shall apply to and govern all proceedings for judicial...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 38
  Authority of Agency in cases constituting an immediate threat to health. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, whenever the Agency finds that a...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 39
  Violations. (a) Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of, or who fails to perform any duty imposed by this Act, or who...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 40
  Injunctive relief. It shall be the duty of the Attorney General upon the request of the Agency to bring an action for an injunction against...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 41
  Conflicting laws. This Act shall not be construed as repealing any laws of the State relating to radiation sources, exposures, radiation protection, and professional...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 42
  Existing remedies unimpaired. No existing civil or criminal remedy for any wrongful action which is a violation of any code, rule or regulation promulgated...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 43
  Reinstatement of existing licenses; Force and effect of existing rules. All licenses, accreditations, registrations, and exemptions in effect on the date of this Act becomes...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 44
  Protection of powers. The powers, duties and functions vested in the Agency under the provisions of this Act shall not be construed to affect in...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 45
  Subpoena power; confidentiality; witness fees; enforcement; punishment. (a) The Agency, by its Assistant Director or a person designated by the Assistant Director, may, at the...
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 46
  The Radiation Protection Act is repealed. (Source: P.A. 86-1341.)
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 47
  Section 4.5A of the Regulatory Agency Sunset Act is repealed. (Source: P.A. 86-1341.)
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 48
  This Act takes effect upon becoming law. (Source: P.A. 86-1341.)
• Illinois Radiation Protection Act of 1990. - 420 ILCS 40, Section 49
  Remediation of Ottawa radiation sites. In order to accomplish a cost-effective remediation that is protective of the public health, the Agency shall have the following...

Last modified: February 18, 2015