Alabama Code Title 22. Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control § 22-14-8

(a) The agency shall require each person who acquires, possesses or uses a source of ionizing radiation to maintain records relating to its receipt, storage, transfer or disposal and such other records as the agency may require, subject to exemptions as may be provided by rules or regulations.

(b) The agency shall require each person who possesses or uses a source of ionizing radiation to maintain appropriate records showing the radiation exposure of all individuals for whom personnel monitoring is required by rules and regulations of the agency. Copies of these records and those required to be kept by subsection (a) of this section shall be submitted to the agency on request.

(c) The agency shall adopt reasonable regulations, compatible with those of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, or any successor thereto, pertaining to reports of exposure of personnel. Such regulations shall require that reports of excess exposure be made to the individual exposed and to the agency and shall make provision for periodic and terminal reports to individuals for whom personnel monitoring is required.

(d) The provisions of this article shall not be construed to limit the kind or amount of radiation that may be intentionally applied to a person for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes by or under the direction of a licensed practitioner of the healing arts.