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As I understand the current law, whether "the locals decide" or the "commissioner's court has ruled" a building is off limits to CHL is legally irrelevant -- it's the state law that decides these things.

The one exception I see to this is that state law allows local governments can ban CHL holders from being armed at meetings of governmental entities, and apparently can use a 30.06 sign to do this -- but would seem to me that when meetings are NOT being held, the sign would have no effect.

I do get confused about the meaning of premises, as defined in 46.035 (f) (3), "building or portion of a building." The phrase "or portion of a building," as applied to 46.03 (a)(3) "any government court or offices
utilized by the court," implies to me that a single courtroom or court office in a building makes the building off-limits. I have searched this site for a discussion of this term specifically, but have not found one. (I get several hundred returns when I search on it, so the discussion may be there and I just haven't stumbled over it yet). If anyone can straighten me out on this one, or point to the appropriate discussion, I would appreciate it.

elb