Sec. 14-315. Duties of Commissioner of Public Safety re street and highway safety and accident prevention.
Sec. 14-315. Duties of Commissioner of Public Safety re street and highway
safety and accident prevention. The Commissioner of Public Safety shall study the
problems of street and highway safety, shall act as the central coordinating agency of
state departments, organizations and instrumentalities engaged in the elimination of
motor vehicle accidents; shall study all phases of the problem of obtaining better observance and uniform enforcement of the laws for the regulation of highway travel and
motor vehicle operation; shall study methods of safety control and engineering in this
and other states with a view to improvement in such methods in this state; shall study
problems of safety as they affect home, farm and school accidents; shall act as the central
coordinating agency of the state in the planning and execution of safety programs and
campaigns for the prevention of accidents and the loss of manpower and may conduct
educational programs and campaigns relating to industrial safety; shall advise with and
assist the Commissioner of Transportation and other state department heads in the accomplishment of the purposes stated herein.
(1949 Rev., S. 2532; 1951, S. 1409d; 1957, P.A. 305, S. 1; September, 1957, P.A. 11, S. 13; 1969, P.A. 768, S. 154;
P.A. 77-614, S. 513, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 12, 136.)
History: 1969 act replaced highway commissioner with commissioner of transportation; P.A. 77-614 abolished Connecticut safety commission and transferred duties to commissioner of public safety, deleted reference to commissioner of motor
vehicles and deleted provision re annual report to governor, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 78-303 deleted obsolete
reference to commissioner of state police.
See title 29 re Department of Public Safety.
See Sec. 38a-683 re accident prevention course for senior citizens, entitling them to insurance premium reductions.