---
kind: "section"
citation: "23 C.F.R. § 1208.4"
title: "23"
number: "1208.4"
heading: "Adoption of National Minimum Drinking Age."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/23/1208.4"
---

# §1208.4. Adoption of National Minimum Drinking Age.


The Secretary shall withhold ten percent of the amount required to be apportioned to any State under each of §§ [104(b)(1)](/usc/23/104.md?p=b-1), [104(b)(2)](/usc/23/104.md?p=b-2), [104(b)(5)](/usc/23/104.md?p=b-5) and [104(b)(6)](/usc/23/104.md?p=b-6) of title 23 U.S.C. on the first day of each fiscal year in which the purchase or public possession in such State of any alcoholic beverage by a person who is less than twenty-one years of age is lawful.


## Notes

### Amendments

[60 FR 66076, Dec. 21, 1995]

### Authority

Authority: 23 U.S.C. 158; delegation of authority at 49 CFR 1.48 and 1.50.

### Source

Source: 51 FR 10380, Mar. 26, 1986, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[60 FR 66076, Dec. 21, 1995]