§ 9-27-2-4 — Office; powers and duties

Indiana § 9-27-2-4

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Title 9: MOTOR VEHICLES
• Art. 27: TRAFFIC SAFETY AND DRIVER EDUCATION
• Ch. 2: State Traffic Safety Programs

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The office shall do the following to carry out this
chapter:
(1) Develop, plan, and conduct programs and activities designed
to prevent and reduce traffic accidents and to facilitate the control
of traffic on Indiana streets and highways.
(2) Advise, recommend, and consult with state departments,
divisions, boards, commissions, and agencies concerning traffic
safety, accident prevention, and traffic facilitation programs and
activities and coordinate these programs and activities on an
effective statewide basis.
(3) Organize and conduct, in cooperation with state departments
and agencies, programs, services, and activities designed to aid
political subdivisions in the control of traffic and prevention of
traffic accidents.
(4) Develop informational, educational, and promotional material
on traffic control and traffic accident prevention, disseminate the
material through all possible means of public information, and
serve as a clearinghouse for information and publicity on traffic
control and accident prevention programs and activities of state
departments and agencies. These activities must include materials
and information designed to make senior citizens aware of the
effect of age on driving ability.
(5) Cooperate with public and private agencies interested in
traffic control and traffic accident prevention in the development
and conduct of public informational and educational activities
designed to promote traffic safety or to support the official traffic
safety program of Indiana.
(6) Study and determine the merits of proposals affecting traffic
control, traffic safety, or traffic accident prevention activities in
Indiana and recommend to the governor and the general assembly
the measures that will serve to further control and reduce traffic
accidents.
(7) Study proposed revisions and amendments to the motor
vehicle laws and all other laws concerning traffic safety and make
recommendations relative to those laws to the governor and
general assembly.
(8) Develop and conduct a program of effective alcohol and drug
countermeasures to protect and conserve life and property on
Indiana streets and highways.
[Pre-1991 Recodification Citation: 9-6-2-5(a).]

Legislative History

As added by P.L.2-1991, SEC.15. Amended by P.L.210-2005, SEC.54; P.L.197-2011, SEC.36.