[§286-204]  Accounts, records, and reports. (a)  The director may require annual, periodic, or special reports from allmotor carriers, prescribe the manner and form in which the reports shall bemade, and require from the carriers specific and full, true, and correctanswers to all questions which the director may deem necessary for the safetyregulation of motor carrier vehicles.

(b)  The director may prescribe the forms ofany and all records and memoranda to be maintained by motor carriers as relatedto safety of motor carrier operations.  The director or the director's dulyauthorized representative shall at all reasonable times and places have accessto and authority, under the director's or representative's order, to inspectand examine any and all equipment of motor carriers and shall have authority toinspect and copy any and all books, records, memoranda, and other documents asare related to the safety of motor carrier operations.

(c)  Each motor carrier operating vehicles inthe State shall keep all records and reports required by this section at anoffice or place of business located within the State. [L Sp 1977 1st, c 20, ptof §1; gen ch 1985]