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Title 23: Highways

Federal-aid highway programs, highway safety, the national minimum drinking age, and transportation infrastructure funding.

6 chapters · 189 sections · 3 key sections available

Key Sections (3)

§ 101

Definitions and Declaration of Policy

The federal highway program provides financial assistance to states for building and maintaining highways, while states retain primary responsibility for the actual road work.

transportationEffective: Jun 29, 1956
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§ 158

National Minimum Drinking Age

States that allow anyone under 21 to buy or publicly possess alcohol lose 10% of their federal highway funding. This effectively set the national minimum drinking age at 21.

transportationcriminalEffective: Jul 17, 1984
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§ 402

Highway Safety Programs

Every state must maintain a federally approved highway safety program to reduce traffic accidents, deaths, and injuries, administered by a state highway safety agency under the Governor.

transportationEffective: Sep 9, 1966
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