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Tennessee Age of Majority Law

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Eighteen-year-olds - Legal responsibility
Alcoholic beverage restrictions on persons under twenty-one (21) years of age.

(a) Notwithstanding any laws to the contrary, any person who is eighteen (18) years of age or older shall have the same rights, duties, and responsibilities as a person who is twenty-one (21) years of age, except as provided in subsection (b) relative to the rights to purchase, possess, transport, and consume alcoholic beverages, wine, or beer as those terms are defined in title 57.

Title 1, Chap. 3, §1-3-113



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