Alcohol Open Container Requirements

To encourage States to enact and enforce a compliant alcohol open container law. Under Section 154, to avoid the transfer of funds, a State must enact and enforce an open container law that prohibits the possession of any open alcoholic beverage container, or the consumption of any alcoholic beverage, in the passenger area of any motor vehicle (including possession or consumption by the driver of the vehicle) located on a public highway, or the right-of-way of a public highway, in the State. 23 U.S.C. 154(b)(1)

States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.

Match: none required (federal program listing). Statutory Formula: Title 23, Part Subchapter D, Subpart 1270,Public Law 117-158

Fiscal year 2016: 1. Impaired driving countermeasures 2. Enforcement of laws prohibiting driving while intoxicated and 3. Driving under the influence Fiscal year 2017: Section 154 funds must be solely used for alcohol-impaired driving countermeasures permissible under NHTSA's S. 402 State and Community Highway Safety formula grant program or for FHWA's Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) eligible activities (hazard elimination). For example, in FY 2017, Louisiana's Highway Safety Commission provided S. 154 grant funds to support the forensic analysis of DWI cases in communities across 29 parishes in northern Louisiana. Fiscal year 2025: Impaired driving paid media campaigns: Funding will provide paid media campaigns for Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over, Youth alcohol, Quarterly Impaired Driving Campaigns, and various other alcohol and/or drug impaired driving efforts for, but not limited to Super Bowl Sunday, Cinco De Mayo, and statewide festivals.