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138.810 Definitions for KRS 138.820 to 138.860.
As used in KRS 138.820 to 138.860:
(1) "Contaminated waste materials" means those materials, in solid, liquid or
gaseous form, which are transported or buried with radioactive wastes;
(2) "Department" means the Department of Revenue;
(3) "Person" includes every natural person, fiduciary, association, state or political
subdivision, or corporation;
(4) "Processor" means any person receiving delivery or any person having an
interest or right of occupancy or use in real property or improvements or any
person owning, operating or maintaining a radioactive waste disposal site or
facility of contaminated waste materials or radioactive waste materials for
processing, packaging, storage, disposal, burial or other disposition;
(5) "Radioactive waste disposal site or facility" means any installation constructed,
used or placed in operation primarily for disposing of contaminated waste
materials or radioactive wastes;
(6) "Radioactive wastes" means any and all material which is radioactive or is
contaminated by or with radioactive material including but not limited to any
structures used in containing such radioactive wastes; and
(7) "Radioactive material" means any material, solid, liquid or gas, which emits
radiation spontaneously.
Effective:June 20, 2005
History: Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 85, sec. 394, effective June 20, 2005. -Amended 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 331, sec. 25, effective July 15, 1986. -- Created
1976 Ky. Acts ch. 376, sec. 1.
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