# Operation of Motor Vehicles by Intoxicated Persons
> **US Department of Transportation** · Final rule. · Published 2003-08-22 · Effective 2003-10-21 · 68 FR 50703
## Document
- **Document number:** 03-21492
- **Category:** other
- **Sub-agency:** US Department of Transportation
- **Federal Register citation:** 68 FR 50703
- **CFR reference:** 23 CFR 1225
- **Publication date:** 2003-08-22
- **Effective date:** 2003-10-21
- **DOT docket:** Docket No. NHTSA-2002-13680
## Abstract

This final rule implements a program enacted by the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 (DOT Appropriations Act of FY 2001), which requires the withholding of Federal-aid highway funds, beginning in fiscal year (FY) 2004, from any State that has not enacted and is not enforcing a law that provides that any person with a blood or breath alcohol concentration (BAC) of 0.08 percent or greater while operating a motor vehicle in the State shall be deemed to have committed a per se offense of driving while intoxicated or an equivalent per se offense. This final rule defines what constitutes a conforming 0.08 BAC law for purposes of this statute.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2003/08/22/03-21492/operation-of-motor-vehicles-by-intoxicated-persons)
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