O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 31-13-9 (2019)

Records of use of radiation sources and exposure of employees to radiation

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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(a) The Department of Community Health and the Department of Natural Resources are authorized to require, in accordance with applicable provisions of this chapter, each person who possesses or uses a source of radiation (1) to maintain appropriate records relating to its receipt, storage, use, transfer, or disposal and to maintain such other records as the Department of Community Health or the Department of Natural Resources, as is applicable, may require, subject to such exemptions as may be provided by rules and regulations; and (2) to maintain appropriate records showing the radiation exposure of all individuals for whom personnel monitoring may be required by the Department of Community Health or the Department of Natural Resources, as is applicable, subject to such exemptions as may be provided by rules and regulations. Copies of all records required to be kept by this subsection shall be submitted to the Department of Community Health or the Department of Natural Resources, as is appropriate, or the duly authorized agents of such department upon request.

(b) The Department of Community Health and the Department of Natural Resources are authorized to require, in accordance with applicable provisions of this chapter, any person possessing or using a source of radiation to furnish, at the request of any employee for whom personnel monitoring is required, a copy of such employee’s personal exposure record annually, upon termination of employment, and at any time such employee has received excessive exposure.

History

Code 1933, § 88-1309, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1; Ga. L.

1990, p. 711, § 1; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 1-4/HB 228.

Annotations

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Department authorized to require licensees to notify employees of excessive radiation exposure. - Ample statutory authority exists for Department of Public Health (now Department of Human Resources) to require persons or

firms licensed under the Georgia Radiation Control Act to notify an employee in writing when the employee has received radiation exposure in excess of prescribed limits. 1968 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 68-299.