Executive Order 23

WHEREAS, WHEREAS, WHEREAS, WHEREAS, INTHE NAME AND BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF IOWA EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBER TWENTY-THREE in order for the State of Iowa to receive funds under the Federal Highway Safety Act, the Governor must designate a State Highway Safety Agency that has adequate powers and is suitably equipped and ~rganized to carry out the program; and the Office of Planning and Programming which has carried out this program since its inception in Iowa is being discontinued in the reorganization and downsizing of state government; and the goals of the highway safety program are con- s is tent with the mission of the State Department of Public Safety to save lives and reduce injuries arrd property damage through alcohol countermeasures, enforcement of traffic laws, driver education and vehicle safety improvement programs; and the State Department of Public Safety can re- allocate resources to assume the State Highway Safety Agency duties and is suitably equipped and organized to deliver the programs to the state and local agency recipients. NOW THEREFORE, I, Terry E. Branstad, Governor of the State of Iowa, by the power and authority vested in me by the Constitution and by the Laws of Iowa, do hereby designate the State Department of Public Safety as the State Highway Safety Agency and the Commissioner of Public Safety as the Governor's Representative for Highway Safety. This transfer of responsibility shall be completed by June 13, 1986. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have here unto subscribed my n&ne and caused the Great Seal of the State of Iowa to be affixed. Done at Des Moines this -9.±h_ day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighty-six, -