Terms Used In Iowa Code > Chapter 136C - Radiation Machines and Radioactive Materials

• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Board: means the board of hearing aid specialists. See Iowa Code 154A.1
• Department: means the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing. See Iowa Code 154A.1
• Department: means the department of health and human services. See Iowa Code 136C.1
• Director: means the director of health and human services or the director's designee. See Iowa Code 136C.1
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• License: means a license issued by the state under this chapter to a hearing aid specialist. See Iowa Code 154A.1
• Licensed professional: means a person licensed or otherwise authorized by law to practice medicine, osteopathic medicine, podiatry, chiropractic, dentistry, dental hygiene, or veterinary medicine. See Iowa Code 136C.1
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Person: means a natural person. See Iowa Code 154A.1
• property: includes personal and real property. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Radiation: means energy forms capable of causing ionization including alpha particles, beta particles, gamma rays, X rays, neutrons, high-speed protons, and other atomic particles, but does not include sound or radio waves, or visible light, or infrared or ultraviolet light. See Iowa Code 136C.1
• Radiation machine: means a device capable of producing radiation except those that produce radiation solely from radioactive material. See Iowa Code 136C.1
• Radioactive material: means a solid, liquid, or gaseous material that emits radiation spontaneously including accelerator-produced and naturally occurring material, and byproduct, source, and special nuclear material as defined in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 as amended to July 1, 1984. See Iowa Code 136C.1
• Rule: includes "regulation". See Iowa Code 4.1
• sell: means a transfer of title or of the right to use by lease, bailment, or any other means, but excludes a wholesale transaction with a distributor or hearing aid specialist, and excludes the temporary, charitable loan or educational loan of a hearing aid without remuneration. See Iowa Code 154A.1
• State: means a state, territory, or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See Iowa Code 152E.3
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• United States: includes all the states. See Iowa Code 4.1