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C-dub wrote:Your own definition doesn't even say that you must have seen the sign.

Sometimes people need to use a little common sense.

Again, I'm not advocating ignoring something that you know is there. But I am not going to go to every entrance to check. If it's not posted where I go in, I am not going to worry about it. In the off chance I were caught and charged, I'll take my chances that a jury has at least one person with an IQ above a gnat. IMO it would not take much to argue that "conspicuously posted" means it has to be available to be seen by everyone entering the premises (i.e. all public entrances). It's one thing arguing you did not see a sign that was posted in a crazy spot like this one (which IMO you would also win, besides it being the wrong size), but IMO no sign at all would be pretty easy to successfully argue (unless you stupidly volunteered that you knew it was at other entrances).

cb1000rider wrote:If you saw it, then you know you shouldn't carry. Bottom line.
If you carry past and get caught, will you be successfully prosecuted? Maybe. What if you went in an alternate entrance? Same answer.
State law does not require that every entrance be posted, just that is is conspicuously posted...

While I am not advocating disregarding signs, if there is not one at the entrance I am going into, then it was not conspicuously posted. The definition of conspicuously is "easily seen or noticed; readily visible or observable". IMO that does not mean one should have to go to every entrance check if one is posted. Have I ever gone into a place that had a sign that was posted at some other entrance? I don't know, since I never saw one conspicuously posted where I entered.

As for getting caught and being prosecuted, since this debate has been going on forever, and I don't recall ever hearing of a single incident of either, I personally am not going to lose any sleep over it.