Arizona Administrative Register Governor's Executive Orders/Proclamations
EXECUTIVE ORDERS, PROCLAMATIONS OF GENERAL APPLICABILITY, AND STATEMENTS ISSUED BY THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO A.R.S. ? 41-1013(B)(3)
The Administrative Procedure Act (APA) requires the full-text publication of all Executive Orders and Proclamations of General Applicability issued by the Governor. In addition, the Register shall include each statement filed by the Governor in granting a commutation, pardon or reprieve, or stay or suspension of execution where a sentence of death is imposed. EXECUTIVE ORDER 2001-9 CREATING THE GOVENOR'S TRAFFIC ADVISORY COUNCIL WHEREAS, traffic and motor vehicle crashes cause numerous personal injuries and fatalities, as well as extensive property damage; and WHEREAS, improving traffic safety must involve the "3 E's": engineering, or design elements that make roadways safer; enforcement, namely the role local and state officers play in serving and protecting users of the road; and education, informing drivers about new traffic laws and techniques to better protect themselves and others; and WHEREAS, there exists a high level of public interest in highway and traffic safety issues and the need to develop more effective strategies to reduce the costs in lives, human suffering, and property damage associated with motor vehicle crashes in Arizona; and WHEREAS, the existing ad hoc highway safety team has done an excellent job over the last eighteen months to identify numerous strategies for improving traffic safety and supporting historic legislation to toughen Arizona's laws dealing with impaired driving, red light running, and the use of passenger safety restraints; NOW, THEREFORE, I, Jane Dee Hull, by virtue of the authority vested in me as Governor by the Arizona Constitution and the laws of the State, do hereby establish the Governor's Traffic Safety Advisory Council. 1) The Governor shall appoint members to the Advisory Council. Members shall serve at the pleasure of the Governor. (a) The Advisory Council will include the directors of the Department of Transportation (ADOT) and the Department of Public Safety (DPS) and the Governor's Office of Highway Safety (GOHS), who shall serve as co-chairs. The directors may establish committees to deal with specific traffic safety issues and they may designate staff within their respective agencies to assist with or serve on the committees. (b) The Advisory Council will include the Governor's Executive Assistants for Criminal Justice and Transportation. (c) The Advisory Council will include the Chairs of the Transportation Committees of the Arizona State House of Representatives and the Arizona State Senate. (d) The Advisory Council will include representatives from the Federal Highway Administration and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. (e) The Advisory Council will include one representative from each of the following organizations or government entities: ?AAA of Arizona ?Arizona County Sheriffs Association ?Arizona Police Chiefs Association ?Arizona Safe Kids Coalition
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?Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD) ?Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) ?Red Means Stop Coalition ?National Safety Council ?Professional Fire Fighters of Arizona ?An urban regional planning agency ?An urban street transportations department 2) Members may send alternates to represent them at Advisory Council meetings. 3) The Advisory Council shall: (a) Develop strategies for improving traffic safety on our federal, state, country and local roads though better engineering, enforcement and education. (b) Identify "best practices" for improving traffic safety, including but not limited to, programs or laws that have been proven effective to reduce the incidents of red light running and impaired driving and increase the use of passenger safety restraints. (c) Recommend specific traffic safety legislation for possible consideration during the following regular session of the Arizona Legislature. (d) Review and recommend specific educational materials that could be incorporated into existing or new driver training and high school driver education classes or courses. (e) Analyze current state and federal laws and programs governing motor carrier safety and recommend any changes that would enhance the effectiveness of these laws or programs. (f) Establish a matrix of indicators that objectively measure or report our state's progress in reducing serious injuries and fatalities due to vehicular crashes on state and local roads. 5) The Advisory Council shall submit its recommendations to the Governor, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives by December 31 of each year.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the State of Arizona
Jane Dee Hull
Governor
DONE at the Capitol in Phoenix on this Twenty Fourth Day of May Two Thousand One and of the Independence of the United States of America the Two Hundred and Twenty Fifth. ATTEST:
Betsey Bayless
Secretary of State
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