68-202-301 - Definitions. - Tennessee Statutes

68-202-301. Definitions.

The following definitions apply in the interpretation and enforcement of this part:

     (1)  “Commissioner” refers to the commissioner of environment and conservation or the commissioner's designated representative;

     (2)  “Department” refers to the department of environment and conservation;

     (3)  “Person” means an individual, trust, firm, joint stock company, corporation (including a government corporation), partnership, association, state, municipality, commission, political subdivision of a state, any interstate body, any governmental agency of this state and any department, agency or instrumentality of the federal government;

     (4)  “Radiation” includes all ionizing electromagnetic waves and corpuscular emissions such as, but not necessarily limited to, gamma rays and x-rays; alpha and beta particles; electrons, neutrons and protons; and other nuclear particles but not radio waves or visible, infrared or ultraviolet light; and

     (5)  “Radiation source” includes material which emits radiation spontaneously, or apparatus which produces, or may produce when the associated controls are operated, one (1) or more forms of radiation.

[Acts 1974, ch. 678, § 1; T.C.A., § 53-3314; Acts 1986, ch. 569, § 6; T.C.A., § 68-23-301.]