Opinion ID: 852837
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Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Results Admissible Only if Techniques Followed

Text: Guy correctly observes that breath test results are admissible in an operating while intoxicated case only if the techniques employed have been approved by the director of the department of toxicology at the Indiana University School of Medicine. Ind.Code Ann. § 9-30-6-5(a), (d) (West 2004). The department's approved techniques for conducting the test in question here (a B.A.C. Datamaster with keyboard) appear at Ind. Admin. Code tit. 260, r. 1.1-4-8(1) (2004). The regulation specifies, [t]he person to be tested must have had nothing to eat or drink, must not have put any foreign substance in his or her mouth or respiratory tract, and must not smoke within twenty (20) minutes prior to the time the breath sample is taken. Id. (emphasis added). Guy acknowledges that the tongue stud was not put in her mouth during the twenty minute waiting period, but contends that a correct interpretation of the regulation is that the person must not have had any foreign substance in his or her mouth during the waiting period. (Br. in Opposition to Pet. to Trans. at 3-5).