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Virginia Administrative Code
Title 12. Health
Agency 5. Department of Health
Chapter 481. Virginia Radiation Protection Regulations
11/5/2024

12VAC5-481-270. Exemptions.

A. Electronic equipment that produces radiation incidental to its operation is exempt from the registration and notification requirements of this part, provided that the dose equivalent rate averaged over an area of 10 square centimeters does not exceed 5 μSv (0.5 mrem) per hour at five centimeters from any accessible surface of such equipment. The production, testing, or factory servicing of such equipment shall not be exempt.

B. Radiation machines while in transit or storage incident thereto are exempt from the requirements of this part.

C. Domestic television receivers are exempt from the requirements of this part.

Statutory Authority

§ 32.1-229 of the Code of Virginia.

Historical Notes

Derived from Virginia Register Volume 22, Issue 25, eff. September 20, 2006; amended, Virginia Register Volume 24, Issue 18, eff. June 12, 2008.

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