Section 1286.70  Maintenance of Records for Approved Evidentiary Instruments

Subject test records, accuracy check records, and service records will be maintained for and/or by each approved evidentiary instrument.

a)         Subject test records and accuracy check records may be maintained in a logbook and/or the instrument's memory.

b)         Logbook entries will be made in the logbook as contemporaneous as reasonably practicable to the time the procedure was performed.

c)         Service records will be maintained by the Alcohol and Substance Testing Section or may be maintained in the instrument's memory.  Malfunctions that are not breakdowns (non-analytical failures such as battery expiration, incorrect time/date, printer problems, keyboard replacement, breath hose replacement, etc.) will not be documented.

d)         Only instruments equipped with sufficient internal memory to store 100 subject test records and that can download stored information to the central repository may keep the test records in the memory of the instrument.

e)         All records removed from the internal memory of an instrument shall be erased and downloaded if possible and practicable, to the central repository.

f)         The central repository will maintain instrument records for not less than five years from the date downloaded.

(Source:  Amended at 31 Ill. Reg. 7305, effective May 1, 2007)