All employees will cooperate fully to resist and correct any actual or threatened drug problem. "Drug" includes alcohol, illegal substances, and any other substance, the use, possession, or trading or trafficking of, which causes or threatens to cause either an interference with City operations, a threat to the public welfare, or a violation of law. The City has the right to require an appropriate drug test of every applicant for City employment and any other test or inquiry reasonably directed to this goal. It has the right to require drug tests of any employee where the City reasonably suspects drug possession or abuse. This includes the right, where there has been an accident, to require a drug test of any employee whose ability might have been impaired by drugs and which could have contributed to the accident or its consequences. The City shall carry out drug tests in a way which does not needlessly impinge upon privacy, or reputation, and which, as far as practicable, produces highly reliable results. Such drug tests shall be consistent with State and Federal laws.
Where appropriate, policies will be developed for the implementation of drug testing. Where the results of a drug test are positive, the City may remove the employee from active work and condition the employee's return to active duty upon appropriate medical evidence, Including a negative drug retest. After returning to work, an additional positive drug test will result in discharge subject to Civil Service procedures.
(Ord. 42-2012. Passed 12-17-12.)