2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 12 - Ionizing Radiation (§§ 251 — 251u) › § 251 - Definitions

The following terms as used in this chapter shall have the meanings set forth below:
(1) By-product material. — Means any radioactive material, except special nuclear material, derived from the process of producing or utilizing special nuclear material or material made radioactive, through exposure to radiation incident to this process.
(2) Ionizing radiation. — Means X rays, gamma rays, alpha and beta particles, high-speed electrons, neutrons, protons, and other nuclear particles, but does not mean sound or radio waves, nor visible light, infrared or ultraviolet.
(3) Licenses, general and specific. —
(a) General license. — Means a license effective pursuant to regulations promulgated by the Commission, without the requirement of an application, for transferring, acquiring, possessing, or using quantities of by-product material, source material, special nuclear material or other naturally occurring or artificially produced radioactive material, or for transferring, acquiring, possessing, or using devices or equipment utilizing by-product material, source material or special nuclear material or other naturally occurring or artificially produced radioactive material.
(b) Specific license. — Means a license issued upon application to the Commission, for using, manufacturing, producing, transferring, receiving, acquiring or possessing quantities of by-product material, source material, special nuclear material or other naturally occurring or artificially produced radioactive material; or for using, manufacturing, producing, transferring, receiving, acquiring or possessing devices or equipment utilizing by-product material, source material, special nuclear material, or other naturally occurring or artificially produced radioactive material.
(4) Person. — Includes any individual, corporation, partnership, firm, association, trust, estate, public or private institution, group, agency, department, instrumentality, public corporation, organization, or political subdivision of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, any state of the Union, its agencies or political subdivisions, or the legal successor, representative or agent thereof, but not the Atomic Energy Commission of the United States or its successor, nor any agency of the federal government licensed by the Atomic Energy Commission of the United States, or its successor.
(5) Commission. — Means the Commission for the Control of Radiation.
(6) Source material. — Means uranium, thorium, or any other material declared source material by order of the Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico after the Atomic Energy Commission of the United States or its successor has determined that said material is source material; or minerals containing one (1)or more of the foregoing materials in the concentrations that the Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico declares by order source material after the Atomic Energy Commission of the United States or its successor has determined that said material in such concentration is “source material”.
(7) Special nuclear material. — Means (1) plutonium, uranium 233, uranium enriched in the isotope 233 or in the isotope 235, and any other material declared special nuclear material by the Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico after the Atomic Energy Commission of the United States or its successor has determined that said material is special nuclear material, but does not include source material; or (2) any material artificially enriched by plutonium, uranium 233, uranium enriched in the isotope 233, or in the isotope 235, or by any other material declared special nuclear material by the Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, as aforesaid excluding source material (fertile material).
History —June 24, 1965, No. 79, p. 182, § 1; May 31, 1967, No. 86, p. 294, § 1.