GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1991 SESSION

CHAPTER 735
SENATE BILL 758

AN ACT PERTAINING TO TRAINING REQUIREMENTS FOR TANNING EQUIPMENT OPERATORS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  The rules establishing formal training requirements for tanning equipment operators which were adopted by the North Carolina Radiation Protection Commission of the Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources shall not become effective prior to June 1, 1992.
Sec. 2.  The Radiation Protection Division of the Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources shall develop a training program for tanning equipment operators that meets the training rules adopted by the North Carolina Radiation Protection Commission.  This training program may be developed in cooperation with and provided by the North Carolina System of Community Colleges.  The Department shall ensure that the training program is available to applicants for registration, registrants and their tanning equipment operators no later than six months prior to the effective date of formal training rules adopted by the Radiation Protection Commission.  If the training program is provided by the Department, the Department may charge each person trained a reasonable fee to recover the actual cost of the training program.
Sec. 3.  G.S. 104E-7(7) reads as rewritten:
"(7)	To provide by rule and regulation for an electronic product safety program to protect the public health and safety, which program may authorize regulation and inspection of sources of nonionizing radiation throughout the State.  The product safety program may include the establishment of minimum qualifications for the operators of these products or sources."
Sec. 4.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 16th day of July, 1991.

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James C. Gardner
President of the Senate

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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives