3748.07 Applying for license or certificate of registration.

(A) Every facility that proposes to handle radioactive material or radiation-generating equipment for which licensure or registration, respectively, by its handler is required shall apply in writing to the director of health on forms prescribed and provided by the director for licensure or registration. Terms and conditions of licenses and certificates of registration may be amended in accordance with rules adopted under section 3748.04 of the Revised Code or orders issued by the director pursuant to section 3748.05 of the Revised Code.

(B) Until rules are adopted under section 3748.04 of the Revised Code, an application for a certificate of registration shall be accompanied by a biennial registration fee of two hundred eighteen dollars. On and after the effective date of those rules, an applicant for a license, registration certificate, or renewal of either shall pay the appropriate fee established in those rules.

All fees collected under this section shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the general operations fund created in section 3701.83 of the Revised Code. The fees shall be used solely to administer and enforce this chapter and rules adopted under it.

Any fee required under this section that has not been paid within ninety days after the invoice date shall be assessed at two times the original invoiced fee. Any fee that has not been paid within one hundred eighty days after the invoice date shall be assessed at five times the original invoiced fee.

(C) The director shall grant a license or registration to any applicant who has paid the required fee and is in compliance with this chapter and rules adopted under it.

Until rules are adopted under section 3748.04 of the Revised Code, certificates of registration shall be effective for two years from the date of issuance. On and after the effective date of those rules, licenses and certificates of registration shall be effective for the applicable period established in those rules. Licenses and certificates of registration shall be renewed in accordance with the standard renewal procedure established in Chapter 4745. of the Revised Code.

Effective Date: 06-26-2003; 06-30-2005