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PUBLIC LAW 89-564-SEPT. 9, 1966
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Public Law 89-564 AN ACT
September 9, 1966
To provide for a coordinated national highway safety program through financial assistance to the States to accelerate highway traffic safety programs, and for other purposes.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and HouJ^e of Representatives United States of America in Congress assembled,
of the
TITLE I—HIGHWAY SAFETY
J'^^'T^llt'^ Act of 1900.
SEC. 101. Title 23, United States Code, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof a new chapter:
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"Chapter 4.—HIGHWAY SAFETY "Sec.
"401. Authority of the Secretary. "402. Highway safety programs. "403. Highway safety research and development. "404. National Highway Safety Advisory Committee. "§401. Authority of the Secretary "The Secretary is authorized and directed to assist and cooperate with other Federal departments and agencies. State and local governments, private industry, and other interested parties, to increase highway safety. "§402. Highway safety programs " (a) Each State shall have a highway safety program approved by the Secretary, designed to reduce traffic accidents and deaths, injuries, and property damage resulting therefrom. Such programs shall be ^^f'^°"^ standin accordance with uniform standards promulgated by the Secretary. Such uniform standards shall be expressed in terms of performance criteria. Such uniform standards shall be promulgated by the Secretary so as to improve driver performance (including, but not limited to, driver education, driver testing to determine proficiency to operate motor vehicles, driver examinations (both physical and mental) and driver licensing) and to improve pedestrian performance. In addition such uniform standards shall mclude, but not be limited to, provisions for an effective record system of accidents (including injuries and deaths resulting therefrom), accident investigations to determine the probable causes of accidents, injuries, and deaths, vehicle registration, operation, and inspection, highway design and maintenance (including lighting, markings, and surface treatment), traffic control, vehicle codes and laws, surv-eillance of traffic for detection and correction of high or potentially high accident locations, and emergency services. Such standards as are applicable to State highway safety programs shall, to the extent determined appropriate by the Secretary, be applicable to federally administered areas where a Federal department or agency controls the highways or supervises traffic operations. The Secretary shall be authorized to amend or waive standards on a temporary basis for the purpose of evaluating new or different highM'ay safety programs instituted on an experimental, pilot, or demonstration basis by one or more States, where the Secretary finds that the public interest would be served by such amendment or waiver. "(b)(1) The Secretary shall not approve any State highway safety program under this section which does not— " (A) provide that the Governor of the State shall be responsible for the administration of the program. " (B) authorize political subdivisions of such State to carry out local highway safety programs within their jurisdictions as a
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