{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-40-40-552","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 40, § 40-552","heading":"Definitions","body":"As used in the Standards for Workplace Drug and Alcohol Testing\n\nAct:\n\n1. \"Alcohol\" means ethyl alcohol or ethanol;\n\n2. \"Applicant\" means a person who has applied for a position\n\nwith an employer and received a conditional offer of employment;\n\n3. \"Board\" means the State Board of Health;\n\n4. \"Confirmation test\" means a drug or alcohol test on a sample\n\nto substantiate the results of a prior drug or alcohol test on the\n\nsame sample and which uses different chemical principles and is of\n\nequal or greater accuracy than the prior drug or alcohol test.\n\nWhere a breathalyzer test is utilized, a confirmation test means a\n\nsecond sample test that confirms the prior result. Where a single-\n\nuse test is utilized, a confirmation test means a second test\n\nconfirmed by a testing facility. A breath or blood specimen may be\n\nused for the confirmation test for alcohol. A urine, saliva or\n\nblood specimen may be used for the confirmation test for drugs;\n\n5. \"Department\" means the State Department of Health;\n\n6. \"Drug\" means amphetamines, cannabinoids, cocaine,\n\nphencyclidine (PCP), hallucinogens, methaqualone, opiates,\n\nbarbiturates, benzodiazepines, synthetic narcotics, designer drugs,\n\nor a metabolite of any of the substances listed herein;\n\n7. \"Drug or alcohol test\" means a chemical test administered\n\nfor the purpose of determining the presence or absence of a drug or\n\nits metabolites or alcohol in a person's bodily tissue, fluids or\n\nproducts. Adulteration of a specimen or of a drug or alcohol test\n\nshall be considered as a refusal to test;\n\n8. \"Employee\" means any person who supplies labor for\n\nremuneration to his or her employer in this state and shall not\n\ninclude an independent contractor, subcontractor or employees of an\n\nindependent contractor; provided, however, an independent\n\ncontractor, subcontractor, or employees of an independent\n\ncontractor, may be subject to a workplace drug or alcohol testing\n\npolicy under the terms of the contractual agreement when the drug or\n\nalcohol testing policy applies to other workers at the job site or\n\nworkers who are in the same or similar classification or group;\n\n9. \"Employer\" means any person, firm, corporation, partnership,\n\nassociation, nonprofit organization or public employer, which has\n\none or more employees within this state, or which has offered or may\n\noffer employment to one or more individuals in this state;\n\n10. \"Public employer\" means the State of Oklahoma or any\n\npolitical subdivision thereof, including any department, agency,\n\nboard, commission, institution, authority, public trust,\n\nmunicipality, county, district or instrumentalities thereof;\n\n11. \"Review officer\" means a person, qualified by the State\n\nBoard of Health, who is responsible for receiving results from a\n\ntesting facility which have been generated by an employer's drug or\n\nalcohol testing program, and who has knowledge and training to\n\ninterpret and evaluate an individual's test results together with\n\nthe individual's medical history and any other relevant information;\n\n12. \"Sample\" means tissue, fluid or product of the human body\n\nchemically capable of revealing the presence of drugs or alcohol in\n\nthe human body; and\n\n13. \"Testing facility\" means a facility which provides\n\nlaboratory services to test samples for the presence of drugs or\n\nalcohol.","path":["OK Code","Title 40"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os40.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"52be0fdebf21d6e8b602057f4a82d8a186f7147c354e0dda7234a1db9356d110","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-40-40-551","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-40-40-553"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}