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14 CFR Ch. I (1–1–24 Edition) 

§ 120.39 

or to continue to perform safety-sen-
sitive functions. 

(e) 

Use following an accident. 

No cov-

ered employee who has actual knowl-
edge of an accident involving an air-
craft for which he or she performed a 
safety-sensitive function at or near the 
time of the accident shall use alcohol 
for 8 hours following the accident, un-
less he or she has been given a post-ac-
cident test under subpart F of this 
part, or the employer has determined 
that the employee’s performance could 
not have contributed to the accident. 

(f) 

Refusal to submit to a required alco-

hol test. 

A covered employee must not 

refuse to submit to any alcohol test re-
quired under subpart F of this part. A 
certificate holder must not permit an 
employee who refuses to submit to 
such a test to perform or continue to 
perform safety-sensitive functions. 

§ 120.39 Testing for alcohol. 

(a) Each certificate holder must es-

tablish an alcohol testing program in 
accordance with the provisions of sub-
part F of this part. 

(b) Except as provided in paragraph 

(c) of this section, no certificate holder 
or operator may use any individual 
who meets the definition of covered 
employee in subpart A of this part to 
perform a safety-sensitive function 
listed in that subpart F of this part un-
less that individual is subject to test-
ing for alcohol misuse in accordance 
with the provisions of that subpart. 

(c) If a certificate holder conducts an 

on-demand operation into an airport at 
which no maintenance providers are 
available that are subject to the re-
quirements of subpart F of this part 
and emergency maintenance is re-
quired, the certificate holder may use 
individuals not meeting the require-
ments of paragraph (b) of this section 
to provide such emergency mainte-
nance under both of the following con-
ditions: 

(1) The certificate holder must give 

written notification of the emergency 
maintenance to the Drug Abatement 
Program Division, AAM–800, 800 Inde-
pendence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 
20591, within 10 days after being pro-
vided same in accordance with this 
paragraph. A certificate holder must 

retain copies of all such written notifi-
cations for two years. 

(2) The aircraft must be reinspected 

by maintenance personnel who meet 
the requirements of paragraph (b) of 
this section when the aircraft is next 
at an airport where such maintenance 
personnel are available. 

(d) For purposes of this section, 

emergency maintenance means main-
tenance that— 

(1) Is not scheduled and 
(2) Is made necessary by an aircraft 

condition not discovered prior to the 
departure for that location. 

Subpart E—Drug Testing Program 

Requirements 

§ 120.101 Scope. 

This subpart contains the standards 

and components that must be included 
in a drug testing program required by 
this part. 

§ 120.103 General. 

(a) 

Purpose. 

The purpose of this sub-

part is to establish a program designed 
to help prevent accidents and injuries 
resulting from the use of prohibited 
drugs by employees who perform safe-
ty-sensitive functions. 

(b) 

DOT procedures. 

(1) Each employer 

shall ensure that drug testing pro-
grams conducted pursuant to 14 CFR 
parts 65, 91, 121, and 135 comply with 
the requirements of this subpart and 
the ‘‘Procedures for Transportation 
Workplace Drug Testing Programs’’ 
published by the Department of Trans-
portation (DOT) (49 CFR part 40). 

(2) An employer may not use or con-

tract with any drug testing laboratory 
that is not certified by the Department 
of Health and Human Services (HHS) 
under the National Laboratory Certifi-
cation Program. 

(c) 

Employer responsibility. 

As an em-

ployer, you are responsible for all ac-
tions of your officials, representatives, 
and service agents in carrying out the 
requirements of this subpart and 49 
CFR part 40. 

(d) 

Applicable Federal Regulations. 

The 

following applicable regulations appear 
in 49 CFR or 14 CFR: 

(1) 49 CFR Part 40—Procedures for 

Transportation Workplace Drug Test-
ing Programs 

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Federal Aviation Administration, DOT 

§ 120.109 

(2) 14 CFR: 
(i) § 67.107—First-Class Airman Med-

ical Certificate, Mental. 

(ii) § 67.207—Second-Class Airman 

Medical Certificate, Mental. 

(iii) § 67.307—Third-Class Airman 

Medical Certificate, Mental. 

(iv) § 91.147—Passenger carrying 

flight for compensation or hire. 

(v) § 135.1—Applicability 
(e) Falsification. No individual may 

make, or cause to be made, any of the 
following: 

(1) Any fraudulent or intentionally 

false statement in any application of a 
drug testing program. 

(2) Any fraudulent or intentionally 

false entry in any record or report that 
is made, kept, or used to show compli-
ance with this part. 

(3) Any reproduction or alteration, 

for fraudulent purposes, of any report 
or record required to be kept by this 
part. 

[Doc. No. FAA–2008–0937, 74 FR 22653, May 14, 
2009; Amdt. 120–0A, 75 FR 3153, Jan. 20, 2010] 

§ 120.105 Employees who must be test-

ed. 

Each employee, including any assist-

ant, helper, or individual in a training 
status, who performs a safety-sensitive 
function listed in this section directly 
or by contract (including by sub-
contract at any tier) for an employer 
as defined in this subpart must be sub-
ject to drug testing under a drug test-
ing program implemented in accord-
ance with this subpart. This includes 
full-time, part-time, temporary, and 
intermittent employees regardless of 
the degree of supervision. The safety- 
sensitive functions are: 

(a) Flight crewmember duties. 
(b) Flight attendant duties. 
(c) Flight instruction duties. 
(d) Aircraft dispatcher duties. 
(e) Aircraft maintenance and preven-

tive maintenance duties. 

(f) Ground security coordinator du-

ties. 

(g) Aviation screening duties. 
(h) Air traffic control duties. 
(i) Operations control specialist du-

ties. 

[Doc. No. FAA–2008–0937, 74 FR 22653, May 14, 
2009, as amended by Amdt. 120–2, 79 FR 9973, 
Feb. 21, 2014] 

§ 120.107 Substances for which testing 

must be conducted. 

Each employer shall test each em-

ployee who performs a safety-sensitive 
function for evidence of a prohibited 
drug during each test required by 
§ 120.109. 

[84 FR 16773, Apr. 23, 2019] 

§ 120.109 Types of drug testing re-

quired. 

Each employer shall conduct the 

types of testing described in this sec-
tion in accordance with the procedures 
set forth in this subpart and the DOT 
‘‘Procedures for Transportation Work-
place Drug Testing Programs’’ (49 CFR 
part 40). 

(a) 

Pre-employment drug testing. 

(1) No 

employer may hire any individual for a 
safety-sensitive function listed in 
§ 120.105 unless the employer first con-
ducts a pre-employment test and re-
ceives a verified negative drug test re-
sult for that individual. 

(2) No employer may allow an indi-

vidual to transfer from a nonsafety- 
sensitive to a safety-sensitive function 
unless the employer first conducts a 
pre-employment test and receives a 
verified negative drug test result for 
the individual. 

(3) Employers must conduct another 

pre-employment test and receive a 
verified negative drug test result be-
fore hiring or transferring an indi-
vidual into a safety-sensitive function 
if more than 180 days elapse between 
conducting the pre-employment test 
required by paragraphs (a)(1) or (2) of 
this section and hiring or transferring 
the individual into a safety-sensitive 
function, resulting in that individual 
being brought under an FAA drug test-
ing program. 

(4) If the following criteria are met, 

an employer is permitted to conduct a 
pre-employment test, and if such a test 
is conducted, the employer must re-
ceive a negative test result before put-
ting the individual into a safety-sen-
sitive function: 

(i) The individual previously per-

formed a safety-sensitive function for 
the employer and the employer is not 
required to pre-employment test the 
individual under paragraphs (a)(1) or (2)