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[CITE: 42USC10003]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
        CHAPTER 107--CONSUMER-PATIENT RADIATION HEALTH AND SAFETY
 
Sec. 10003. Definitions

    Unless otherwise expressly provided, for purposes of this chapter, 
the term--
        (1) ``radiation'' means ionizing and nonionizing radiation in 
    amounts beyond normal background levels from sources such as medical 
    and dental radiologic procedures;
        (2) ``radiologic procedure'' means any procedure or article 
    intended for use in--
            (A) the diagnosis of disease or other medical or dental 
        conditions in humans (including diagnostic X-rays or nuclear 
        medicine procedures); or
            (B) the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of 
        disease in humans;

    that achieves its intended purpose through the emission of 
    radiation;
        (3) ``radiologic equipment'' means any radiation electronic 
    product which emits or detects radiation and which is used or 
    intended for use to--
            (A) diagnose disease or other medical or dental conditions 
        (including diagnostic X-ray equipment); or
            (B) cure, mitigate, treat, or prevent disease in humans;

    that achieves its intended purpose through the emission or detection 
    of radiation;
        (4) ``practitioner'' means any licensed doctor of medicine, 
    osteopathy, dentistry, podiatry, or chiropractic, who prescribes 
    radiologic procedures for other persons;
        (5) ``persons who administer radiologic procedures'' means any 
    person, other than a practitioner, who intentionally administers 
    radiation to other persons for medical purposes, and includes 
    medical radiologic technologists (including dental hygienists and 
    assistants), radiation therapy technologists, and nuclear medicine 
    technologists;
        (6) ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of Health and Human 
    Services; and
        (7) ``State'' means the several States, the District of 
    Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the 
    Northern Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, 
    and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.

(Pub. L. 97-35, title IX, Sec. 978, Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 599.)

          Termination of Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands

    For termination of Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, see note 
set out preceding section 1681 of Title 48, Territories and Insular 
Possessions.
