For the purposes of the Radiologic Technology Act (Section 27) and this chapter:
(a)CA Health & Safety Code § 114850(a) “Department” means the State Department of Public Health.
(b)CA Health & Safety Code § 114850(b) “Committee” means the Radiologic Technology Certification Committee.
(c)CA Health & Safety Code § 114850(c) “Radiologic technology” means the application of x-rays on human beings for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes.
(d)CA Health & Safety Code § 114850(d) “Radiologic technologist” means any person, other than a
licentiate of the healing arts, making application of x-ray to human beings for
diagnostic, mammographic, or therapeutic purposes pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 114870.
(e)CA Health & Safety Code § 114850(e) “Limited permit” means a permit issued pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 114870 or Section 114871 to persons to conduct radiologic technology limited to the performance of certain procedures or the application of x-rays to specific areas of the human body, except for a mammogram.
(f)CA Health & Safety Code § 114850(f) “Approved school for radiologic technologists” means a school or approved educational program that the department has determined provides a course of instruction in radiologic technology that is adequate to meet the purposes of the Radiologic Technology Act (Section 27).
(g)CA Health & Safety Code § 114850(g) “Supervision” means responsibility for, and control of, quality, radiation safety, and technical aspects of all x-ray
examinations and procedures.
(h)Copy CA Health & Safety Code § 114850(h)
(1)Copy CA Health & Safety Code § 114850(h)(1) “Licentiate of the healing arts” means a person licensed under the provisions of the Medical Practice Act, 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 the Osteopathic Act.
(2)CA Health & Safety Code § 114850(h)(2) For purposes of Section 114872, a licentiate of the healing arts means a person licensed under the Physician Assistant Practice Act (Chapter 7.7 (commencing with Section 3500) of Division 2 of the Business and Professions Code) who practices under the supervision of a qualified physician and surgeon
pursuant to the act and pursuant to Division 13.8 of Title 16 of the California Code of Regulations.
(i)CA Health & Safety Code § 114850(i) “Certified supervisor or operator” means a licentiate of the healing arts who has been certified under subdivision (e) or (f) of Section 114870 or 107111 to supervise the operation of x-ray machines or to operate x-ray machines, or both.
(j)CA Health & Safety Code § 114850(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)CA Health & Safety Code § 114850(k) “Mammogram” means an x-ray image of the human breast.
(l)CA Health & Safety Code § 114850(l) “Mammography” means the procedure for creating a mammogram.
