                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

IGNITION INTERLOCK SYSTEM AND REMOTE ALCOHOL MONITORING DEVICE; CERTIFICATION BY
COMMISSION ON VASAP; REGULATIONS; SALE OR LEASE; MONITORING USE; REPORTS (§
18.2-270.2)

A. The Executive Director of the Commission on VASAP or his designee shall,
pursuant to approval by the Commission, certify ignition interlock systems for
use in the Commonwealth and adopt regulations and forms for the installation,
maintenance and certification of such ignition interlock systems.
			The regulations adopted shall include requirements that ignition interlock
systems:

   1. Do not impede the safe operation of the vehicle;

   2. Minimize opportunities to be bypassed, circumvented or tampered with, and
   provide evidence thereof;

   3. Correlate accurately with established measures of blood alcohol content and
   be calibrated according to the manufacturer&#8217;s specifications;

   4. Work accurately and reliably in an unsupervised environment;

   5. Have the capability to provide an accurate written measure of blood alcohol
   content for each ignition, attempted ignition, and rolling retest, and record
   each attempt to circumvent or tamper with the equipment;

   6. Minimize inconvenience to other users;

   7. Be manufactured or distributed by an entity responsible for installation,
   user training, service, and maintenance, and meet the safety and operational
   requirements promulgated by the National Highway Transportation Safety
   Administration;

   8. Operate reliably over the range of motor vehicle environments or motor
   vehicle manufacturing standards;

   9. Be manufactured by an entity which is adequately insured against liability,
   in an amount established by the Commission, including product liability and
   installation and maintenance errors;

   10. Provide for an electronic log of the driver&#8217;s experience with the
   system with an information management system capable of electronically
   delivering information to the agency supervising the interlock user within 24
   hours of the collection of such information from the datalogger; and

   11. Provide for a rolling retest of the operator&#8217;s blood alcohol
   content.

B. The Executive Director of the Commission on VASAP or his designee shall,
pursuant to approval by the Commission, certify remote alcohol monitoring
devices for use in the Commonwealth and adopt regulations and forms for the
installation, maintenance, and certification of such remote alcohol monitoring
devices.

C. Such regulations shall also provide for the establishment of a fund, using a
percentage of fees received by the manufacturer or distributor providing
ignition interlock services or remote alcohol monitoring devices, to afford
persons found by the court to be indigent all or part of the costs of an
ignition interlock system or remote alcohol monitoring device.

D. The Commission shall design and adopt a warning label to be affixed to an
ignition interlock system or remote alcohol monitoring device upon installation.
The warning label shall state that a person tampering with or attempting to
circumvent the ignition interlock system or remote alcohol monitoring device is
guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be subject to a fine
or incarceration or both.

E. The Commission shall publish a list of certified ignition interlock systems
and remote alcohol monitoring devices and shall ensure that such systems and
devices are available throughout the Commonwealth. The local alcohol safety
action program shall make the list available to eligible offenders, who shall
have the responsibility and authority to choose which certified ignition
interlock company and certified remote alcohol monitoring company will supply
the offender&#8217;s equipment. A manufacturer or distributor of an ignition
interlock system or a remote alcohol monitoring device that seeks to sell or
lease the ignition interlock system or remote alcohol monitoring device to
persons subject to the provisions of &#xA7; 18.2-270.1 shall pay the reasonable
costs of obtaining the required certification, as set forth by the Commission.

F. A person may not sell or lease or offer to sell or lease an ignition
interlock system or a remote alcohol monitoring device to any person subject to
the provisions of § 18.2-270.1 unless:

   1. The system or device has been certified by the Commission; and

   2. The warning label adopted by the Commission is affixed to the system.

G. A manufacturer or distributor of an ignition interlock system or remote
alcohol monitoring device shall provide such services as may be required at no
cost to the Commonwealth. Such services shall include a toll free, 24-hour
telephone number for the users of ignition interlock systems or remote alcohol
monitoring devices.

HISTORY: 1995, c. 486; 2000, cc. 341, 362; 2020, c. 1007.