(235 ILCS 5/6-18) (from Ch. 43, par. 133a)
Sec. 6-18.
No home rule unit, as defined in Article VII of the Illinois
Constitution, may amend or alter or in any way change the legal age at which
persons may purchase, consume or possess alcoholic liquors as provided in
this Act, and it is declared to be the law of this State, pursuant to paragraphs
(h) and (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Constitution, that the establishment
of such legal age is an exercise of exclusive State power which may not
be exercised concurrently by a home rule unit.
(Source: P.A. 82-783.)
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