Office; powers and duties
Sec. 4. 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.
(9) Administer the operation lifesaver program referred to in
section 12 of this chapter to promote and coordinate public
education concerning railroad grade crossing safety.
As added by P.L.2-1991, SEC.15. Amended by P.L.210-2005,
SEC.54.
Last modified: May 27, 2006