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      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.