New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 9 - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT › Subtitle A - Governor's Office › Chapter I - Executive Orders › Part 3 - Executive Orders (Hugh L. Carey) › Section 3.97 - Executive order no. 97: establishing the alcohol and highway safety task force

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
The tragic consequences of alcohol-related accidents are
					 well known, with approximately 1,000 fatalities and a conservative estimate of
					 20,000 serious injuries per year in New York State. Local, State and Federal
					 officials working in the area of public safety regard the drinking driver as
					 one of the most serious and preventable of public health and safety problems.
					 The Federal Department of Transportation has recently identified the drinking
					 driver as the number one cause of death on the highway. The efforts of the
					 Legislature, enforcement community, drinking driver programs, public education
					 and alcoholism treatment agencies have attempted to meet this problem, but
					 efforts have not always been conducted in a coordinated manner. Such
					 coordination can occur through a comprehensive analysis of alcohol-related
					 highway safety problems and a comprehensive coordinated State plan to alleviate
					 these problems.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Hugh L. Carey, Governor of the State of
					 New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the
					 Laws of the State of New York, do hereby establish a task force, to be known as
					 the Alcohol and Highway Safety Task Force, to assist me in the design of a
					 comprehensive coordinated State plan to alleviate problems relative to alcohol
					 and highway safety.
I. Powers and
				  responsibilities.
The Alcohol and Highway Safety Task Force will:
-- undertake a comprehensive analysis of alcohol-related
					 highway safety problems in New York State;
-- analyze different prevention, intervention and
					 rehabilitation models which may effectively reduce the population of drinking
					 drivers and alleviate other alcohol and highway safety problems;
-- investigate alcohol- and highway safety-related problems
					 to determine the feasibility of coordinated and/or expanded services;
-- investigate funding mechanisms to assure the development
					 and maintenance of a comprehensive coordinated State program to alleviate
					 alcohol and highway safety problems;
-- prepare reports for the Governor and Legislature on the
					 nature and extent of alcohol-related higway safety problems and the elements of
					 a comprehensive State response;
-- cooperate in the preparation of legislation to promote
					 alcohol and highway safety;
-- collect and analyze data on the impact of Federal and
					 State spending on alcohol and highway safety;
-- coordinate State efforts for obtaining available Federal
					 funds for alcohol and highway safety;
-- develop mechanisms to inform local government
					 executives, legislators, police officials, judges, health care officials and
					 other interested parties of efforts aimed at alcohol and highway safety.
II. Membership.
The Director of the Division of Alcoholism and Alcohol
					 Abuse and the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles will co-chair
					 the Alcohol and Highway Safety Task Force. Additional members of the task force
					 will include: Superintendent of Division of State Police, Commissioner of
					 Division of Criminal Justice Services, Commissioner of Department of Education,
					 Director of Division of Probation, Director of Division of Substance Abuse
					 Services, Chairman of Commission of Correction, Commissioner of Department of
					 Health, Chairman of Governor's Traffic Safety Committee, Commissioner of
					 Department of Transportation, and Commissioner of Department of Correctional
					 Services. Other concerned groups in the public and private sector will be
					 encouraged to participate as the work of the task force develops.
The task force shall meet at the direction of the
					 co-chairpersons and shall periodically report to the Governor on its
					 activities. The task force shall prepare and submit to the Governor, for his
					 review, a progress report by May first of each year. A comprehensive analysis
					 and State plan will be developed by July 1981, which will include a statement
					 of coordinated agency policy.
The members of the task force shall receive no
					 compensation, but shall be entitled to reimbursement for any necessary expenses
					 incurred in connection with the performance of their duties.
Signed: Hugh L. CareyDated: February 21,
					 1980