§ 33-1. Definitions.

(a) In general.

For the purposes of this subtitle, the following definitions apply:

(b) Development Commission.

"The Development Commission" is that which is set forth in Article VII, §§111 through 113 of the City Charter.

"Component of a nuclear weapon" is any device, radioactive or non-radioactive, specifically designed to be installed in and to contribute to the operation of a nuclear weapon.

(d) Direct activities of federal government.

"Direct activities of the federal government" means actions of the federal government or any agency thereof created by statute, but does not include actions of independent contractors.

(e) Nuclear weapon.

(1) "Nuclear weapon" is any device, the purpose of which is use as a weapon, a weapon prototype, or a weapon test device, the intended detonation of which results from the energy released by fission and/or fusion reactions involving atomic nuclei.

(2) "Nuclear weapon" includes the weapon's guidance and propulsion system and triggering mechanism, i.e., the means of transporting, guiding, propelling, triggering, or detonating the weapon, provided that such means is destroyed or rendered useless in the normal transporting, guiding, propelling, triggering, or detonation of the weapon.

(f) {Repealed}

(g) Radioactive materials.

"Radioactive materials" are any radioactive materials, or their radioactive by-products, which are generated, refined, or made radioactive by any government agency or pursuant to federal or state government contract or license, and including that which the federal government classified as low-level radioactive waste as of January 1, 1989, but which may be classified as below regulatory concern after that date.