[§286-204]  Accounts, records, and reports.  (a)  The director may require annual, periodic, or special reports from all motor carriers, prescribe the manner and form in which the reports shall be made, and require from the carriers specific and full, true, and correct answers to all questions which the director may deem necessary for the safety regulation of motor carrier vehicles.

     (b)  The director may prescribe the forms of any and all records and memoranda to be maintained by motor carriers as related to safety of motor carrier operations.  The director or the director's duly authorized representative shall at all reasonable times and places have access to and authority, under the director's or representative's order, to inspect and examine any and all equipment of motor carriers and shall have authority to inspect and copy any and all books, records, memoranda, and other documents as are related to the safety of motor carrier operations.

     (c)  Each motor carrier operating vehicles in the State shall keep all records and reports required by this section at an office or place of business located within the State. [L Sp 1977 1st, c 20, pt of §1; gen ch 1985]