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seamusTX wrote:It's a legal requirements for which there is no penalty for the hospital. As far as I can tell, no state agency is charged with enforcing it.

I've seen all manner of signage on hospitals and a few nursing homes, from generic gunbuster signs to signs that some amateur lawyer must have devised that are neither the 51% nor 30.06 verbiage.

- Jim

Keith B wrote:

wgoforth wrote:

mikeloc wrote:We always refer to Section 46.035, but we seem to forget that a hospital must post under 411.204
GC §411.204. NOTICE REQUIRED ON CERTAIN PREMISES
(b) A hospital licensed under Chapter 241, Health and Safety Code,
or a nursing home licensed under Chapter 242, Health and Safety
Code, shall prominently display at each entrance to the hospital or
nursing home, as appropriate, a sign that complies with the requirements
of Subsection (c) other than the requirement that the sign
include on its face the number "51".
(c) The sign required under Subsections (a) and (b) must give
notice in both English and Spanish that it is unlawful for a person
licensed under this subchapter to carry a handgun on the premises.
Therefore a hospital is required to post a sign saying it’s illegal to carry even though we can carry as long as they do not post 30.06.

Mike

No... a hospital is not required to post... same with a church also listed. Penal codes are written like the Constitution. When changed, they do not remove a law, they amend it in another section. This law WAS the law but amended by legislation 2 years later. Read to the end of the section and you will see: (i) Subsections (b)(4), (b)(5), (b)(6), and (c) do not apply
if the actor was not given effective notice under Section 30.06.

Actually, yes they are required to post. They must post the 51% sign with the verbiage only, not the red 51%. However, this doesn't cause use to not be able to carry unless they post a 30.06. Mike's comments were correct.

mikeloc wrote:We always refer to Section 46.035, but we seem to forget that a hospital must post under 411.204
GC §411.204. NOTICE REQUIRED ON CERTAIN PREMISES
(b) A hospital licensed under Chapter 241, Health and Safety Code,
or a nursing home licensed under Chapter 242, Health and Safety
Code, shall prominently display at each entrance to the hospital or
nursing home, as appropriate, a sign that complies with the requirements
of Subsection (c) other than the requirement that the sign
include on its face the number "51".
(c) The sign required under Subsections (a) and (b) must give
notice in both English and Spanish that it is unlawful for a person
licensed under this subchapter to carry a handgun on the premises.
Therefore a hospital is required to post a sign saying it’s illegal to carry even though we can carry as long as they do not post 30.06.

Mike