Drink and drug driving
This is the clearest case on the site of a number that does not exist where everyone looks for it. The national schedule's drink-driving item states licence consequences and no peso figure whatsoever; the money is in the Act, and the Act gives a court a floor and a ceiling rather than an amount.
Where the money is
Three bands, each a floor and a ceiling
Set by outcome rather than by reading, and every one of them names an imprisonment term in the same clause as the fine.
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| Outcome | Not less than | Not more than | Imprisonment |
|---|---|---|---|
| No injury caused | ₱20,000 | ₱80,000 | 3 months imprisonment |
| Physical injuries caused | ₱100,000 | ₱200,000 | Revised Penal Code art. 263 penalty, or the §12(a) penalty, whichever is higher |
| Homicide | ₱300,000 | ₱500,000 | Revised Penal Code art. 249 penalty |
Every figure in that table comes from the Act, not from the national schedule. The schedule’s own drink and drug driving item states no amount at all — which is the finding further down this page, and the reason none of these rows carries a scan citation.
Check a band
What the Act states for your circumstances
Two controls, both of which change the answer — and neither of which produces a single peso figure, because none exists.
The circumstances
The 2014 national schedule states no amount at all for this. Its drink and drug driving item opens “In addition to the fines and penalties prescribed by law” and then lists licence consequences only — so a table showing a zero there would tell you drink driving is free, and this site shows none.
What the Act states
Court-set range- Fine — not less than
- ₱20,000
- Fine — not more than
- ₱80,000
- Imprisonment
- 3 months imprisonment
- Licence
- Suspended 12 months from payment of the fine
The two figures above are a floor and a ceiling, not a fine. The Act gives a court a range and this site will not average it, take the floor as the answer, or present either bound as the amount you will be charged.
The vehicle's owner or operator is directly and principally liable for the fine together with the driver, unless they convincingly prove extraordinary diligence in choosing and supervising drivers.
The finding
The schedule states nothing here at all
The national schedule states no amount at all for drink or drug driving
The national schedule's drink and drug driving item opens with the words “In addition to the fines and penalties prescribed by law:” and then lists licence consequences only. It states no peso amount whatsoever. The money is entirely in the Act the item cites, and that Act gives a court a floor and a ceiling rather than a fixed figure. This site shows the Act's ranges and shows no amount for the schedule, because the schedule has none — a zero in that place would tell you drink driving is free.
After a perpetual revocation
No licence of any kind, thereafter
Not only the driver
The owner or operator is directly liable too
UNRESOLVED
An older band is still printed, with no repeal marker on it
The 1964 Traffic Code carried its own drink-driving penalty, and the 2013 Act’s repealing clause names it expressly. The consolidated text this site read still prints that older clause with no repeal marker of any kind at that point — so a reader working from that text alone would find a live-looking provision that has been repealed.
This site prices from the 2013 Act. The older clause appears here as a warning about the consolidated text, not as an alternative figure.