CHAPTER 304

An Act to require persons possessing, storing or using radiation machines
and radioactive materials to register with the State Health Depart-
ment, and to provide penalties for violations. 5 9g

[S 28]

Approved March 15, 1960

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. §1. As used in this act:

(a) “Radiation” means and includes alpha, beta and gamma rays,
X-rays, high speed electrons, neutrons, high speed protons and other atomic
particles, but does not mean or include sound or radio waves, or visible,
infrared or ultraviolet light;

(b) “Radiation machine” means any device that produces, or is cap-
able of producing radiation ;

(c) “Radioactive material” means any material that emits radiation
spontaneously; and

(d) “Person” means any person, firm or corporation, and any
political subdivision, institution or agency of the State.

§ 2. It shall be unlawful for any person to possess, store or use any
radiation machine or radioactive material, other than a machine or
material which is placed by any law of the United States under the juris-
diction or control of the Atomic Energy Commission and is under license
by that Commission, unless such person shall register the same with the
State Health Department. Such registration shall be on forms provided
hy the State Health Commissioner and the person registering such
machines or material shall set forth, as to any machine, the type of such
machine, the amount of radiation which it produces or is capable of pro-
ducing, the use to which such machine is put, and the protective measures
employed in connection therewith; and as to any radioactive material, the
type and quantity of such material, the amount of radiation emitted by
such material, the use to which such material is put, the manner in which
it is stored, and the protective measures employed in connection therewith.

§ 3. This act shall not apply to:

(a) Electrical or electronic equipment operated at voltages less than
twenty-five kilovolts, which are not primarily intended to produce radia-
ion;

(b) Domestic television receivers;

(c) Radioactive material in quantities less than those which are
generally licensed by the Atomic Energy Commission under Parts 30 and
40 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations in force on January
one, nineteen hundred sixty; or
low; (d) All naturally occurring radioactive substances except the fol-
owing:

(1) Radium, in quantities which emit, from unsealed sources, more
than one-tenth microcurie of radiation, or from sealed sources, more than
one microcurie of radiation.

(2) Thallium in quantities which emit from unsealed or sealed sources
more than fifty microcuries.

(8) Polonium in quantities which emit from unsealed sources more
than one-tenth microcurie of radiation or from sealed sources more than
one microcurie of radiation.

§ 4. Any person failing or refusing to register with the State Health
Department as required by this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and
shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than one hundred

ollars.