California Code of Regulations › Title 7 - Harbors and Navigation › Division 2 - State Board of Pilot Commissioners for the Bays of San Francisco, San Pablo and Suisun › Article 5 - Licensing › Section 217 - Purpose of Fitness Regulations

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a)
				The purpose of this regulation is to ensure that pilots and pilot trainees are
				mentally and physically fit to perform their duties. To achieve this purpose,
				persons subject to a fitness evaluation must disclose all information relevant
				to their fitness to perform their duties. In addition, personal health care
				professionals, Board-appointed physicians, and other health care professionals
				must be free to share with one another all information relevant to a fitness
				evaluation. This regulation provides for the full disclosure and sharing of
				information that is essential to an effective program for the evaluation of
				fitness for duty.
(b) Health
				information of persons subject to a fitness evaluation will be shared among
				Board-appointed physicians, personal health care professionals, other health
				care professionals, and, when necessary to Board processes set forth in the
				Board's regulations, with members of the Board, the Executive Director, and
				Board counsel. These Board processes include reported absences from duty for
				medical reasons, appeals of fitness determinations, review of disability
				pension applications, and consideration of actions under Sections
				1180 through
				1183 of the Code.
(c) When, to complete a fitness evaluation, a
				Board-appointed physician needs health information regarding the person being
				evaluated from that person or from another health care professional, including
				medical records, examination results, results of diagnostic and laboratory
				tests, and consultations, it is the responsibility of the person being
				evaluated to provide, or arrange for provision of, the needed information to
				the Board-appointed physician. Absent provision of such information, the person
				being evaluated will be determined not fit for duty.
(d) The fitness evaluations required by this
				article are solely to evaluate the fitness of persons to perform the duties of
				pilots or pilot trainees. The Board-appointed physicians who conduct these
				evaluations do not provide medical care or treatment to the persons
				evaluated.
1. New section
				  filed 5-9-88; operative 6-8-88 (Register 88, No. 20). For history of former
				  section, see Registers 59, No. 11 and 57, No. 6.
2. Renumbering of
				  former section
				  217 to section
				  219 and renumbering and amendment
				  of former section
				  214 to section
				  217 filed 8-12-93; operative
				  9-13-93 (Register 93, No. 33).
3. Amendment of subsections (a)(1),
				  (d) and (e)(7) filed 6-3-2003; operative 7-3-2003 (Register 2003, No.
				  23).
4. Repealer and new subsections (b)(1)-(2) and amendment of
				  subsections (c)(1) and (e)(5) and NOTE filed 3-14-2011; operative 4-13-2011
				  (Register 2011, No. 11).
5. Repealer and new section filed
				  1-24-2014; operative 4-1-2014 (Register 2014, No. 4).
6. Amendment
				  filed 7-29-2021; operative 10-1-2021 (Register 2021, No. 31). Filing deadline
				  specified in Government Code section
				  11349.3(a)
				  extended 60 calendar days pursuant to Executive Order N-40-20.
Note: Authority cited: Section
					 1154,
					 Harbors and Navigation Code. Reference: Sections
					 1101,
					 1141,
					 1157,
					 1157.1,
					 1157.2,
					 1157.3,
					 1157.4,
					 1171,
					 1171.5,
					 1176,
					 1176.5,
					 1180,
					 1181,
					 1182
					 and
					 1183,
					 Harbors and Navigation Code.