In an ordinary car with a separate trunk on a highway, where should an opened bottle of alcoholic liquor be transported to comply with the ordinary open-container rule?

Correct answer: In the separate trunk, outside the passenger area.

Why

MCL 257.624a generally prohibits an operator or occupant from transporting or possessing an open, uncapped or broken-seal alcoholic-liquor container in the passenger area on a highway. Use the separate trunk in this scenario. Vehicles without a separate trunk have specified storage exceptions, and the statute has separate chartered-vehicle and commercial-quadricycle passenger provisions.

Verified against What Every Driver Must Know and cited current authority · Open container law · p. 28