Louisiana § RS 32:397 - Commissioner to furnish forms and receive accident reports
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§ RS 32:397. Commissioner to furnish forms and receive accident reports
A. The commissioner shall prepare, and may supply to police and sheriff offices and other suitable agencies, forms for accident reports calling for sufficiently detailed information to disclose, with reference to a highway accident, the cause, the conditions then existing, the persons and vehicles involved, the names of the liability carriers and policy numbers for the vehicles, and the name, address, and telephone number of the insurance agents who procured the liability policies providing coverage for the vehicles.
B. The commissioner shall receive accident reports required to be made by law and shall tabulate and analyze such reports and publish, annually or at more frequent intervals, statistical information based thereon as to the number, cause, and location of highway accidents.
Acts 1962, No. 310, §1. Amended by Acts 1977, No. 113, §1, eff. June 22, 1977; Acts 1980, No. 676, §1; Acts 1995, No. 527, §1.
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