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.

[Pre-1991 Recodification Citation: 9-6-2-5(a).]

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