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BaleKlocoon wrote:I assume it is not permitted for one individual to have two identical CHL licenses? The reason I ask: I carry every day with a pocket holster in my jeans, and I carry with a pistol wear pt-2 every time I exercise (5 days a week). When I exercise I put my CHL license in the pt-2 holster with my firearm (because I must have my license with me to legally carry). I often worry about forgetting to move my license from my wallet to my workout holster, and from my workout holster back to my wallet, and accidentally carrying illegally. It would be super convenient if I could keep one copy in my wallet and the other in my workout holster.

Next question, what is the penalty if a legal CHL holder is caught carrying without his physical license? So far I've never done this, but carrying every day with my CHL in my wallet and about 5 days a week without a wallet when I work out, it is bound to happen by mistake eventually.

miljet wrote:

As of Sept 1, 2013, their is no more "category" of license.

If that is the case, why does my license issued this month have a " SA catagory"?

RoyGBiv wrote:

jmra wrote:

RoyGBiv wrote:You cannot have 2 valid/unexpired copies of your license, same as drivers license.
When you move and get an updated CHL, for example, the old CHL (if unexpired), must be returned to DPS.

When I moved 5 years ago and applied for an updated CHL with correct address, the instructions I received from DPS was to destroy the original.
ETA: just looked at GC 411.181 Notice of Change of Address or Name - nothing about returning the original license.

Interesting... My above quoted text from 411.184 was from CHL-16, page 13, "Modification". Looking at TX GC 411 directly, 411.184 is no longer part of the code online. I can only assume recent legislation removed it or incorporated it into something else....

Regardless, the second license, if unexpired, cannot be kept.
jmra's first hand experience is that it's required to be destroyed. I'd go with that.

IMO, IANAL, YMMV, EIEIO