For a Nevada driver under age 21, what blood alcohol concentration triggers an administrative license suspension?
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A.
0.05%
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B.
0.08%
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C.
0.02% Correct
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D.
0.01%
The answer is "0.02%"
The manual applies a stricter threshold to under-21 drivers than to adults. A chemical test showing 0.02% or more, but less than 0.08%, triggers administrative action against the driver's license.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. 0.05%
A common social-drinking figure that the manual does not use as the under-21 line. This answer substitutes a common social-drinking threshold for the printed 0.02% under-21 figure.
B. 0.08%
This is the adult illegal per se limit, and the manual sets a much tighter figure for drivers under 21. This answer reaches for the 0.08% number drilled into every DUI public-service ad and remembers it as the single legal limit that applies to every driver.
D. 0.01%
The manual's under-21 threshold is 0.02%, not this lower figure. This answer halves the printed 0.02% under-21 limit on the assumption that any measurable drink at all triggers action, which sounds strict enough to be right.
This question tests your knowledge of DUI & Impaired Driving in Nevada. Source: Nevada Driver Manual, "Chapter 10 - Driving Under the Influence, Illegal Per Se Law," p.79..
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