Arizona Administrative Code › Title 13 - PUBLIC SAFETY › Chapter 10 - Department of Public Safety Alcohol Testing › Article 1 - DETERMINATION OF ALCOHOL CONCENTRATION › Section R13-10-101 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 28, July 12, 2024
In this Article, unless the context otherwise
				  requires:
1. "Alcohol concentration"
				or "AC" means grams of alcohol per 100 milliliters of blood or grams of alcohol
				per 210 liters of breath.
2.
				"Analyst" means an individual who has been issued an analyst permit by the
				Department to use approved methods to make alcohol concentration determinations
				from blood or other bodily substances.
3. "Analyst permit" means a document issued
				by the Department indicating the permit holder has been found qualified to
				utilize an approved method in the determination of alcohol
				concentrations.
4. "Analytical
				procedure" means a series of operations utilized by an analyst when employing
				an approved method in the determination of alcohol concentration.
5. "Calibration Check" means an operation
				utilizing a standard alcohol concentration solution to determine whether a
				device is accurately measuring alcohol concentrations that is performed as a
				Standard Calibration Check Procedure by a Quality Assurance Specialist at least
				every 31 days or performed as Concurrent Calibration Check Procedures by an
				Operator within a successfully completed test sequence bracketing a duplicate
				breath test.
6. "Concurrent
				Calibration Check Procedure" means an operation performed by an Operator,
				utilizing a standard alcohol concentration solution, within a successfully
				completed test sequence to determine whether a device is accurately measuring
				alcohol concentration during a duplicate breath test.
7. "Concurrent Quality Assurance Procedure"
				means operations performed by an Operator, including a Concurrent Calibration
				Check Procedure and diagnostic checks, within a successfully completed test
				sequence to determine whether a device is accurately and properly measuring
				alcohol concentration during a duplicate breath test.
8. "Deprivation period" means at least a
				15-minute period immediately prior to a duplicate breath test during which
				period the subject has not ingested any alcoholic beverages or other fluids,
				eaten, vomited, smoked or placed any foreign object in the mouth.
9. "Determination" means an analysis of a
				specimen of blood, breath, or other bodily substance and expressing the results
				of the analysis in terms of alcohol concentration.
10. "Device" means a breath testing
				instrument.
11. "Duplicate breath
				test" means two consecutive breath tests that immediately follow a deprivation
				period, agree within 0.020 AC of each other, and are conducted at least five
				and no more than 10 minutes apart.
12. "Instructor" means a person approved by
				the Department to provide breath test training to prospective Operators and
				Quality Assurance Specialists on a specific approved device.
13. "Method" means an analytical technique
				utilized by an analyst or a device to make an alcohol concentration
				determination (e.g. gas chromatography, infrared spectrophotometry, or specific
				fuel cell detection.)
14.
				"Operator" means a person who has been issued an Operator permit from the
				Department to operate a specific approved device for the purpose of determining
				an alcohol concentration from a specimen of breath and to perform the
				Concurrent Quality Assurance Procedures, Concurrent Calibration Check
				Procedures, and diagnostic checks to determine whether a device is operating
				accurately and properly.
15.
				"Operator Permit" means a document issued by the Department indicating that the
				permit holder has been found qualified to operate and perform the associated
				Quality Assurance Procedures on a specific approved device.
16. "Periodic Maintenance" means a Quality
				Assurance Procedure consisting of either of the following, which determines
				whether a device is operating accurately and properly:
a. Standard Calibration Check Procedure and
				Standard Quality Assurance Procedure (these checks and procedures may be
				performed concurrently), or
b.
				Concurrent Calibration Check Procedures and Concurrent Quality Assurance
				Procedures performed within a successfully completed test sequence bracketing a
				duplicate breath test.