Section 32-4-3

Coordinator of Highway and Traffic Safety — Office created; appointment; term of office; duties.

There is hereby created within the executive department of the state government, and immediately under the supervision of the Governor, the office of Coordinator of Highway and Traffic Safety. The coordinator shall be appointed by the Governor, and shall serve at the pleasure of the Governor. The coordinator shall advise with and assist the Governor in the formulation, coordination and supervision of comprehensive state and local highway and traffic safety programs to reduce traffic accidents, deaths, injuries and property damage within this state. The coordinator, acting under the direction and supervision of the Governor, shall also advise the various departments and agencies of state government concerned with highway and traffic safety programs. He shall coordinate and review, cooperatively, the programs developed by the various local political subdivisions, for the purpose of assisting them in the preparation of their highway traffic safety programs to insure that they meet the criteria established for such programs by the appropriate state and federal authorities.

(Acts 1967, No. 270, p. 775, §3.)