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Nope. Open container laws in TN are strict to the point of silliness. Not only can a passenger not have an open container, any missing drink from a pack, say you have 5 beers left out of a 6 pack because you drank one in New Hampshire and threw away the empty in Virginia, is still considered an open container. Be careful, and don't start partying until you're past the ticket checkpoint!
That is absolutely correct! In Tennessee we have "The Open Container Law" which basically says you can be fined for having an opened alcoholic beverage anywhere in your vehicle whether it is yours or not whether it was an empty beer can from New Year's or not.
I would suggest thoroughly cleaning out your vehicles of empty beer cans, bottles, or anything that potentially contained an alcoholic beverage. As Hibouxdufromage said, I would wait until you are actually through the gates and parked.
If you are caught drinking in line, they'll get you for DUI for sure. No doubt.
Umm, does TN have a zero tolerance with DUI? Because here in NC, you wouldn't get DUI unless your BAC was .08 or greater, assuming you are 21 or older.
It's not a flat ".08%" rule, so far as the TN state law is written. The law allows for an automatic presumption that you are impaired (whether or not any other evidence supports impairment) if your blood alcohol is .08%. Even without that, if you appear impaired, you can be arrested based upon the officer's opinion. As the law is written:
55-10-401. Driving under the influence of intoxicant, drukq or drukq producing stimulant prohibited — Alcohol concentration in blood or breath. — (a) It is unlawful for any person to drive or to be in physical control of any automobile or other motor driven vehicle on any of the public roads and highways of the state, or on any streets or alleys, or while on the premises of any shopping center, trailer park or any apartment house complex, or any other premises which is generally frequented by the public at large, while: (1) Under the influence of any intoxicant, marijuana, narcotic drug, or drukq producing stimulating effects on the central nervous system; or (2) The alcohol concentration in such person's blood or breath is eight-hundredths of one percent (.08 %) or more. (b) For the purpose of this section, “drug producing stimulating effects on the central nervous system” includes the salts of barbituric acid, also known as malonyl urea, or any compound, derivatives, or mixtures thereof that may be used for producing hypnotic or somnifacient effects, and includes amphetamine, desoxyephedrine or compounds or mixtures thereof, including all derivatives of phenolethylamine or any of the salts thereof, except preparations intended for use in the nose and unfit for internal use. [Acts 1953, ch. 202, § 1 (Williams, § 10830.2); Acts 1961, ch. 63, § 1; 1977, ch. 420, § 1; 1979, ch. 265, § 1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 59-1031; Acts 1980, ch. 623, § 1; 1980, ch. 635, § 1; 1986, ch. 842, § 12; 1996, ch. 915, § 1; 2002, ch. 855, § 7.]
It's that "or" in between (a)(1) and (a)(2) that allows for either method to be used to cite you for DUI.
As has been said, if you're driving, don't drink. Legal issues aside, it isn't safe anyway. Arrive alive and leave the same way. Drinking and driving is a good way to ruin a good weekend before it even gets started.
LOL! Unless you are at Echo...at night...when it's 40 degrees...THEN ya might not want an ice cold beer...everyone laughed at my beer koozies until they figured out I wasn't using them to keep the beer COLD...I was keeping my hands WARM.... Then....they changed their tune.... ;D
Actually, I had a similar experience at rado after falling in the stream/swamp/irrigation ditch ( don't ask ) on Saturday night when you could see your breath in the air... I WISH I had thought of the koozie thing... do they make a body koozie?
from the time your in line to the time your camp is finally set up takes quite a while, and feels like an eternity. do you know of a better way to pass time?
How about crossword puzzles? Or Soduko that's really popular with you kids today, right? Or you could write a letter to your congressman, telling him how much open container laws suck. Masturbat!on is a good way to pass time too.