Office of Transportation Safety

C.R.S. tit. 24, art. 42

in effect

C.R.S. § 24-42-101 Office created - director

24-42-101. Office created - director. (1) There is hereby created within the office of the executive director of the department of transportation an office of transportation safety, the head of which shall be the director of the office of transportation safety. The director shall be appointed by the executive director of the department of transportation in accordance with the provisions of section 13 of article XII of the state constitution. The director of the office of transportation safety shall appoint the necessary staff of his office in accordance with the provisions of section 13 of article XII of the state constitution. (2) The office of transportation safety and the director thereof shall exercise their powers and perform their duties and functions, specified by this article, under the department of transportation and the executive director thereof, as if the same were transferred to the department by a type 2 transfer, as such transfer is defined in the "Administrative Organization Act of 1968", article 1 of this title.

C.R.S. § 24-42-102 Advisory committee - sunset review

24-42-102. Advisory committee - sunset review. (Repealed)

C.R.S. § 24-42-103 Powers, duties, and functions

24-42-103. Powers, duties, and functions. (1) There is hereby created within the office of transportation safety a coordinator of transportation safety, who shall be the director of the office. (2) The office of transportation safety shall have the following powers, duties, and functions: (a) To consult with state departments, institutions, and agencies, with political subdivisions of the state, and with appropriate citizen groups and to formulate current and long-range plans and programs involving all aspects and components of transportation safety; (b) To succeed to and perform the powers and duties of the office of the coordinator of highway safety in dealing with the federal government with respect to federal highway traffic safety legislation, programs, and activities and, to that end, to coordinate the activities of state departments, institutions, and agencies and of political subdivisions of the state relating thereto; and (c) To advise and report to the governor and the general assembly on transportation safety plans and operations.

C.R.S. § 24-42-104 Transfer

24-42-104. Transfer. Effective July 1, 1991, such officers and employees who were engaged prior to said date in the performance of the powers, duties, and functions of the division of highway safety in the state department of highways and who, in the opinion of the executive director of the department of transportation, are necessary to perform the powers, duties, and functions of the office of transportation safety shall become officers and employees of the office of transportation safety and shall retain all their rights to state personnel system and retirement benefits under the laws of the state, and their service shall be deemed to have been continuous. The office of transportation safety shall succeed to all property and records which were used for or pertain to the performance of the powers, duties, and functions of the coordinator of highway safety. All appropriations made to the division of highway safety in the state department of highways for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1991, or remaining to the credit thereof and not revertible by law to the general fund on July 1, 1991, shall be transferred to the office of transportation safety. The transportation commission shall budget and allocate all moneys to be expended by or allocated to the office of transportation safety in accordance with section 43-1-113, C.R.S.

C.R.S. § 24-42-105 Colorado training institute

24-42-105. Colorado training institute. (Repealed)

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