Connecticut Administrative Code
Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline
227a - Measurement of Alcohol in Blood, Breath or Urine
Forensic Chemical Testing of Blood, Breath or Urine (Motor Vehicle)
Section 14-227a-1b - Definitions

Current through September 9, 2024

As used in sections 14-227a-1 b to 14-227a-10b, inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies:

(1) "Alveolar" means air expired from the deepest part of the lungs;

(2) "Analyst" means an individual trained and certified in toxicological laboratory procedures;

(3) "Blood alcohol content" means the grams of ethyl alcohol per one hundred (100) milliliters of blood expressed as percentage, or grams of alcohol per 210 liters of breath;

(4) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Public Safety or such commissioner's designee;

(5) "Department" means the Department of Public Safety, Division of Scientific Services;

(6) "Device or instrument" means any apparatus and associated accessories of which alcohol or drug content in a sample is qualitatively and quantitatively determined and reported. Such apparatus may indicate an equivalent blood alcohol content;

(7) "Direct breath alcohol test" or "direct breath alcohol testing" means the test of a sample of an individual's expired breath using an instrument designed for this purpose in order to determine the concentration of ethyl alcohol in the individual's blood;

(8) "Instructor" means an individual trained and certified to make an analysis with a direct breath alcohol testing device or instrument and to train operators in the conduct of such test;

(9) "Laboratory" means any place or area in which any sample of blood, breath or urine is subjected to a chemical or instrumental analysis. Such definition shall not include a place or area under the jurisdiction of, or controlled by, a law enforcement agency or the Department of Public Safety in which direct breath alcohol tests are performed;

(10) "Operator" means an individual trained and certified to make an analysis with a direct breath alcohol testing device or instrument certified or approved by the commissioner;

(11) "Person" shall have the meaning ascribed to it in subsection (k) of section 1-1 of the Connecticut General Statutes, except that it is not intended to include any hospital or clinical laboratory; and

(12) "Phlebotomist" means a person whose normal duties include withdrawing blood samples.

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