North Carolina Administrative Code
Title 10A - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Chapter 41 - EPIDEMIOLOGY HEALTH
Subchapter B - INJURY CONTROL
Section .0500 - ALCOHOL SCREENING TEST DEVICES
Section 41B .0503 - APPROVED ALCOHOL SCREENING TEST DEVICES: CALIBRATION
Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 6, September 16, 2024
(a) The following breath alcohol screening test devices are approved as to type and make:
(b) The agency or operator shall verify instrument calibration of each alcohol screening test device at least once during each 30 day period of use. The verification shall be performed using an alcoholic breath simulator with a simulator solution in accordance with Paragraph (c) of this Rule or an ethanol gas canister in accordance with Paragraph (d) of this Rule.
(c) Alcoholic breath simulators used exclusively to verify instrument calibration of alcohol screening test devices shall have the solution changed every 30 days or after 25 calibration tests, whichever occurs first.
(d) Ethanol gas canisters used exclusively to verify instrument calibration of alcohol screening test devices shall not be utilized beyond the expiration date on the canister.
(e) Requirements of Paragraphs (b), (c), and (d) of this Rule shall be recorded on an alcoholic breath simulator log or an ethanol gas canister log designed by the Forensic Tests for Alcohol Branch within the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services and maintained by the user agency in accordance with the user agency's retention policy.
Authority
G.S.
20-16.3;
20-138.7(d);
Eff. February 1, 1976;
Readopted Eff. December 5, 1977;
Amended Eff. July 1, 2007; November 1, 2005; April 1, 2001; January 1, 1995;
January 4, 1994; April 1, 1993; January 4, 1993;
Pursuant to
G.S.
150B-21.3A, rule is necessary without
substantive public interest Eff. January 9, 2018;
Amended Eff.
April 1, 2020.
