{"id":440,"date":"2018-07-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baronedefensefirm.lawblogger.net\/blog\/what-is-michigans-under-21-zero-tolerance-law\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T14:39:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T18:39:32","slug":"what-is-michigans-under-21-zero-tolerance-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/what-is-michigans-under-21-zero-tolerance-law\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Michigan\u2019s Under 21 Zero Tolerance Law?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are a drunk driver if you are under 21 years of age in Michigan, drink any amount of alcohol and then drive a car.\u00a0 This is called the Michigan zero-tolerance drunk driving law. To fully understand this law, it is important to know how \u201cany amount of alcohol\u201d is defined.\u00a0 Michigan\u2019s Compiled Laws 257.625(6)(a) and (b) provide as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As used in this subsection, &#8220;any bodily alcohol content&#8221; (BAC) means either having an alcohol content of 0.02 grams or more but less than 0.08 grams or having the presence of any alcohol within a person&#8217;s body resulting from the consumption of alcoholic liquor.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If you are under 21 years of age, and have an alcohol content of .08 or more, then you will be charged with an \u201cadult\u201d drunk driving, which carries greater punishments and a more draconian driver license sanction.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/what-is-michigans-under-21-zero-tolerance-law\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading What is Michigan\u2019s Under 21 Zero Tolerance Law?\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are a drunk driver if you are under 21 years of age in Michigan, drink any amount of alcohol and then drive a car.\u00a0 This is called the Michigan zero-tolerance drunk driving law. To fully understand this law, it is important to know how \u201cany amount of alcohol\u201d is defined.\u00a0 Michigan\u2019s Compiled Laws 257.625(6)(a) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dui","category-dui-defense"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What is Michigan\u2019s Under 21 Zero Tolerance Law? | Michigan DWI Lawyer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If a minor gets charged with a DUI, the charges faced can be more serious. 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