2005 California Health and Safety Code Sections 114850 Article 2. Definitions

114850.  As used in this chapter:
   (a) "Department" means the State Department of Health Services.
   (b) "Committee" means the Radiologic Technology Certification
Committee.
   (c) "Radiologic technology" means the application of X-rays on
human beings for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes.
   (d) "Radiologic technologist" means any person other than a
licentiate of the healing arts making application of X-rays to human
beings for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes pursuant to subdivision
(b) of Section 114870.
   (e) "Limited permit" means a permit issued pursuant to subdivision
(c) of Section 114870 to persons to conduct radiologic technology
limited to the performance of certain procedures or the application
of X-ray to specific areas of the human body, except for a mammogram.
   (f) "Approved school for radiologic technologists" means a school
that the department has determined provides a course of instruction
in radiologic technology that is adequate to meet the purposes of
this chapter.
   (g) "Supervision" means responsibility for, and control of,
quality, radiation safety, and technical aspects of all X-ray
examinations and procedures.
   (h) "Licentiate of the healing arts" means a person licensed under
the provisions of the Medical Practice Act, and a person licensed
under the provisions of the initiative act entitled "An act
prescribing the terms upon which licenses may be issued to
practitioners of chiropractic, creating the State Board of
Chiropractic Examiners and declaring its powers and duties,
prescribing penalties for violation thereof, and repealing all acts
and parts of acts inconsistent herewith," approved by electors
November 7, 1922, as amended, or under the "Osteopathic Act."
   (i) "Certified supervisor or operator" means a licentiate of the
healing arts who has been certified under subdivision (e) of Section
114870 or 107115 to supervise the operation of X-ray machines or to
operate X-ray machines, or both.
   (j) "Student of radiologic technology" means a person who has
started and is in good standing in a course of instruction that, if
completed, would permit the person to be certified a radiologic
technologist or granted a limited permit upon satisfactory completion
of any examination required by the department.  "Student of
radiologic technology" does not include any person who is a student
in a school of medicine, chiropractic, podiatry, dentistry, dental
radiography, or dental hygiene.
   (k) "Mammogram" means an X-ray image of the human breast.
   (l) "Mammography" means the procedure for creating a mammogram.