Section 19-24-3 - [Repealed effective 10/1/2025] Registration requirement(a)(1) The owner of every installation or mobile source, not exempted by the provisions of section 19-24-8(b), shall register the same or cause it to be registered with the department and such registration shall be on forms provided for this purpose by the department.(2) Every new installation and mobile source shall be registered before the sources of radiation are operated, handled, used, stored or manufactured. Each owner of an installation or mobile source shall reregister installations and mobile sources each January and, in addition, at any time when any increase is contemplated in the number of sources, the source strength, the output or the types of radiation involved.(3) Receipt and acknowledgement of registration shall not imply approval by the department of the receipt, transfer, possession, manufacture, storage, use, operation, handling, transportation or disposal of radioactive materials or the manufacture, use or operation of other sources of ionizing radiation described in the registration.(b) The activities described below are exempted from the registration requirements of subsection (a).(1) The possession or operation of devices emitting x-rays for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes by or under the supervision of a person or persons licensed to practice medicine, surgery, osteopathy, chiropractic, natureopathy, dentistry, podiatry or veterinary medicine and surgery as authorized by law; (Refer to sections 19-25a-1 to 19-25a-5.)(2) The production, transportation, storage, use and disposal of naturally occurring radioactive materials of equivalent specific radioactivity not exceeding that of natural potassium;(3) The production, transportation, storage, use and disposal of other radioactive materials not exceeding the quantities listed in Appendix A;(4) The operation of equipment that is primarily not intended to produce radiation and that, by nature of design, does not produce radiation at the point of nearest approach in quantities sufficient to produce radiologic damage to a person. For the purposes of these regulations such equipment shall include: Time pieces, instruments, novelties or devices containing self-luminous elements, except during manufacture or repair of the self-luminous elements, and electrical equipment that is not primarily intended to produce radiation and that does not produce radiation greater than five-tenths mr per hour at any readily accessible point five centimeters from the surface. Such equipment shall not be exempt if it is used or handled in such a manner that any individual might receive a radiation dose exceeding one-tenth the limits established in section 19-24-5(a). The production testing or production servicing of such equipment shall not be exempt;(5) The transportation of any radioactive material in conformity with regulations of the United States Department of Transportation or other agency of the federal government having jurisdiction. Exemption from registration does not mean exemption from compliance with other pertinent provisions of these regulations.(6) Any quantity of radioactive material determined by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission or an agreement state to be an "exempt quantity" or any item determined by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission or an agreement state to be an "exempt item."Conn. Agencies Regs. § 19-24-3
Effective October 1, 1982; repealed 10/1/2025