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Miss. Code Ann. § 71-7-21

Promulgation of rules by State Board of Health

Laws, 1991, ch. 610, § 11; reenacted and codified, Laws, 1994, ch. 323, § 11, eff from and after passage (approved March 14, 1994

The State Board of Health shall adopt rules concerning:

Standards for drug and alcohol testing laboratory certification, suspension and revocation of certification;

Body specimens that are appropriate for drug and alcohol testing;

Methods of analysis and procedures to ensure reliable drug and alcohol testing results, including standards for initial tests and confirmatory tests;

Guidelines on how to establish cut-off detection levels for drugs or their metabolites for the purposes of determining a positive test result;

Chain-of-custody procedures to ensure proper identification, labeling and handling of specimens being tested; and

Retention and storage procedures to ensure reliable results on confirmation tests and retests.

Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.