Illinois Administrative Code › Title 32 - ENERGY › Part 401 - ACCREDITING PERSONS IN THE PRACTICE OF MEDICAL RADIATION TECHNOLOGY › Section 401.30 - Exemptions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
a) Nothing in the
			 Act or this Part shall be construed to limit or affect in any respect, the
			 practice of persons properly licensed under other statutes or regulations with
			 respect to their professions.
b)
			 The Agency shall, upon application therefor or upon its own initiative, grant
			 such exemptions or exceptions from the requirements of this Part as it
			 determines are authorized by law and will not result in a hazard to public
			 health and safety.
c) Exemptions
			 shall include:
1) A student enrolled in an
			 approved program applicable to his/her profession who, as a part of his/her
			 course of study, applies ionizing radiation to human beings while under the
			 direct supervision of a licensed practitioner or medical radiation technologist
			 who holds active status accreditation.
2) A person registered with the Agency as a
			 student-in-training in limited diagnostic radiography pursuant to Section
			 401.90
			 who, as a student, applies ionizing radiation to human beings while under the
			 personal supervision of a licensed practitioner or an accredited medical,
			 chiropractic, or appropriately qualified limited diagnostic radiographer. The
			 procedures performed shall be limited to the procedures listed in Appendix A
			 and applicable to the particular status condition of limited diagnostic
			 radiography for which the student is registered. This exemption shall only
			 apply to individuals who are registered with the Agency and shall only apply
			 for 16 months.
3) A person licensed
			 to practice a treatment of human ailments by virtue of the Medical Practice Act
			 of 1987, the Illinois Dental Practice Act, or the Podiatric Medical Practice
			 Act of 1987.
4) A person employed
			 as a dental assistant who performs dental radiography for a licensed
			 dentist.
5) A technician, nurse or
			 other assistant who performs radiography under the general supervision of a
			 person licensed under the Podiatric Medical Practice Act of 1987.
6) A person who holds Conditional
			 Accreditation Type II issued in accordance with Section
			 401.100(a)
			 during such time as that person is under the personal supervision of a licensed
			 practitioner or medical radiation technologist who holds active status
			 accreditation for purposes of being instructed in the use of equipment and/or
			 procedures other than those for which the person is currently accredited. This
			 exemption is specific to the facility at which the accreditation is
			 valid.
7) A nurse, technician, or
			 other assistant who, under the general supervision of a person licensed under
			 the Medical Practice Act of 1987, administers radiation to human beings, but
			 only when such administration is performed on employees of a business at a
			 medical facility owned and operated by that business.
8) A nurse, technician, or other assistant
			 who, under the general supervision of a person licensed under the Medical
			 Practice Act of 1987, performs bone densitometry.
9) An accredited nuclear medicine
			 technologist who performs CT radiographic exams as part of a PET/CT or SPECT/CT
			 combination exam.
10) An accredited
			 nuclear medicine technologist or radiation therapist who, certified in CT by
			 the ARRT or NMTCB, performs CT radiographic exams.