37.14.513    GENERAL LICENSES: INTRASTATE TRANSPORTATION OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL

(1) A general license is hereby issued to any common or contract carrier to transport and store radioactive material in the regular course of their carriage for another or storage incident thereto, provided the transportation and storage is in accordance with the applicable requirements of the regulations, appropriate to the mode of transport, of the US department of transportation insofar as such regulations relate to the loading and storage of packages, placarding of the transporting vehicle, and incident reporting. Any notification of incidents referred to in those requirements shall be filed with, or made to, the department. Persons who transport and store radioactive material pursuant to the general license in this subsection are exempt from the requirements of ARM Title 37, chapter 14, subchapters 7 and 17.

(2) A general license is hereby issued to any private carrier to transport radioactive material, provided the transportation is in accordance with the applicable requirements of the regulations, appropriate to the mode of transport, of the US department of transportation insofar as such regulations relate to the loading and storage of packages, placarding of the transporting vehicle, and incident reporting. Any notification of incidents referred to in those requirements shall be filed with, or made to, the department.

(a) Persons who transport radioactive material pursuant to the general license in (2) are exempt from the requirements of ARM Title 37, chapter 14, subchapters 7 and 17, to the extent that they transport radioactive material.

(b) Physicians, as defined in ARM 37.14.102 are exempt from the requirements of (2) to the extent that they transport radioactive material for use in the practice of medicine.

History: Sec. 75-3-202, MCA; IMP, Sec. 75-3-202, MCA; NEW, 1980 MAR p. 1069, Eff. 3/28/80; TRANS, from DHES, 1996 MAR p. 433; TRANS, from DEQ, 2000 MAR p. 189.