Ariz. Admin. Code § 13-10-103

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 50, December 13, 2024

Section R13-10-103 - Breath-testing Devices

A. The Director may approve devices used to determine alcohol concentration from breath after the Department successfully tests a typical model of the device for compliance with the standards in subsection (B).

B. A device shall meet the following standards of performance:

1. Breath specimens tested shall be alveolar in composition.

2. The device shall be capable of analysis of a solution of known alcohol concentration with an accuracy limit of a systematic error of no more than ± 0.005 grams per 210 liters of breath or ± 5 percent, whichever is greater, and a precision limit of an average standard deviation of no more than 0.0042 grams per 210 liters of breath. The accuracy and precision of the device being evaluated shall be determined on the basis of 10 consecutive measurements at 4 alcohol vapor concentrations that are between 0.020 and 0.350 grams per 210 liters of breath, to include at least one value < 0.100 and one value > 0.250.

3. The device shall be capable of testing a breath sample that results in alcohol concentrations of less than 0.01 grams per 210 liters of breath when alcohol-free subjects are tested.

C. The Department, upon specific findings that a device, method, or breath test procedure is inaccurate, unreliable, or is an unacceptable test for determining alcohol concentration or that its use has been discontinued in the state, shall disapprove in writing further use of the device, method, or procedure.

D. The methods approved by the Director for use by a device to determine alcohol concentration are infrared spectrophotometry and specific fuel cell detection.

E. The following devices are approved by the Director:

Device/Model	Manufacturer
Intoxilyzer Model 5000 with or without Vapor Recirculation and with or without Keyboard	CMI, Inc.
Intoxilyzer Model 5000EN	CMI, Inc.
Intoxilyzer Model 8000	CMI, Inc.
Intoxilyzer Model 9000	CMI, Inc.
RBT AZ (Alco Sensor AZ/RBT AZ)	Intoximeter, Inc.

F. Products included on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Conforming Products List of Evidential Breath Measurement Devices set forth in 82 FR 50940-50944 (November 2, 2017) are approved by the Director as preliminary breath testers to determine alcohol concentration. This document is incorporated by reference and does not include any later amendments or editions. A copy of this document is available from the Department and may be obtained from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's web site (www.nhtsa.gov) or by contacting the U.S. Government Printing Office, 732 North Capitol Street NW, Washington, DC 20401.

G. Devices listed in subsection (E) may be used to administer preliminary breath tests.

H. Except when a device is used as a PBT or for other non-evidential testing purposes, an Operator permit and Standard Operational Procedure are required for the operation of devices listed in subsection (E).

I. In addition to the devices approved in subsection (E), the Director may approve, in writing, a device and related Standard Operational and Quality Assurance Procedures after the device has been successfully tested for compliance with the standards in subsection (B) for use prior to and pending the device being added to subsection (E). The approval shall expire three years after its effective date unless subsection (E) is amended to include the approved device.

J. In addition to devices approved as preliminary breath testers in subsection (F), the Director may approve in writing as a PBT a new device placed on subsequent National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Conforming Products Lists of Evidential Breath Measurement Devices for use pending the new Conforming Products List being added to subsection (F).

Ariz. Admin. Code § R13-10-103

New Section made by final rulemaking at 12 A.A.R. 1916, effective 9:00 a.m., May 18, 2006 (Supp. 06-2). Amended by final rulemaking at 26 A.A.R. 723, effective 6/1/2020.