The Governor may administer this state's highway safety programs through appropriate instrumentalities, departments, or agencies of the state or through a coordinator of public safety to be appointed by the Governor.
History. Acts 1967, No. 161, § 2; A.S.A. 1947, § 76-139.
A.C.R.C. Notes. Acts 1995, No. 551, § 4, provided:
“The Highway Safety Program Advisory Council created by Arkansas Code 12-6-101 is transferred to the Arkansas Alcohol and Drug Abuse Coordinating Council pursuant to a type 3 transfer as defined in Arkansas Code 25-2-106.”
Publisher's Notes. Acts 1981, No. 45, § 11, separated the highway safety program, authorized by §§ 27-73-101 and 27-73-102, from the Department of Public Safety (abolished) and provided that it would thereafter function as a separate agency of state government, unless the Governor designated another agency or department of state government within which the program should be established. The section further provided that nothing in the act was to be construed to reduce any right which an employee of the highway safety program should have under any civil service or merit system.