The Village of Florida hereby establishes a mandatory drug and alcohol
testing program. This policy shall apply to all employees of the Village and
to all persons applying for employment positions with the Village. Testing
shall include breath alcohol and urine testing. Testing samples shall be analyzed
for at least the following substances: alcohol, marijuana (THC metabolite),
cocaine, amphetamines, opiates (including heroin) and phenyencyclidine (PCP).
All such testing shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions of this
policy.
Employees shall appear at the proper facility and submit for testing
required under this policy within two hours after being notified that they
are obligated to submit for such random, reasonable suspicion, post-accident,
follow-up or return-to-duty testing.
The Mayor shall notify the Village employees and applicants of the results
of tests conducted pursuant to this policy. Those persons testing positive
for alcohol and/or prohibited substances shall also be advised specifically
as to what drugs or amount of alcohol was or were discovered present in their
system in the testing.
Whenever an employee subject to this policy receives a prescription,
a form should be completed by the employee's attending or prescribing physician
and provided to the employee stating whether or not the prescribed medication
will affect the individual's driving ability and whether the prescribed medication
would appear or be reflected on a drug test.
An employee whose results of drug and alcohol testing under this policy
establish existence in the employee's body system of 0.04% alcohol content
or of a prohibited drug or substance shall be deemed to have violated the
Village policy regarding alcohol and drug abuse. Upon the first such positive
test result, an employee shall be referred to mandatory alcohol and/or drug
rehabilitation treatment. An employee who participates as required in such
treatment program and who successfully completes follow-up or return-to-duty
testing shall be returned to employment without further discipline. An employee
who refuses or fails to participate as required in referred rehabilitation
treatment shall be subject to further discipline, up to and including discharge,
and shall not be returned to duty. Any further instance of positive test results
of alcohol and/or prohibited substances as defined above or an employee's
failure to submit to testing as defined above shall subject the employee to
discipline, up to and including discharge.
No person may obtain the individual test results retained by the Mayor
and no results shall be released to any person or entity without first receiving
written authorization from the tested individual unless otherwise required
by law.