ninjabread wrote:The law is clear. If we're worried about officers who don't know (or don't care) what the law says, we should be worried about carrying a handgun at all, because those officers might not know (or not care) about CHL/LTC either.Keith B wrote:I agree, but the TABC officer may not look at the definition when making the arrest, even though it's not valid. Just saying they really need to make sure they change this and make it match TPC.ScottDLS wrote:ninjabread wrote:What would an honest peace officer arrest for? 46.035 clearly says "Premises" means a building or a portion of a building. The term does not include any public or private driveway, street, sidewalk or walkway, parking lot, parking garage, or other parking area.Keith B wrote:Not by TABC terms. The 'licensed premises' is defined as the area where they can serve alcohol for on-premise consumption. It may normally not include the parking lot, but they also may get a temporary license to cover sale and consumption in the parking lot and then it would be off-limits. Best bet on these, if it's a bar and beside the business in their private parking area, and they are predominately selling alcohol, then it will be 99% a no-go.BBYC wrote:“Premises” means a building or a portion of a building
The law is quite clear. The parking lot doesn’t meet the definition of the offense charged regardless of the TABC license considerations.
There are enough legal restrictions on our rights already. If we add the further standard of not doing anything that someone might think is illegal, then we are unnecessarily self-restricting ourselves far too much, IMHO.