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stars200 wrote:

joe817 wrote:I'm surprised that Austin isn't claiming that their building is not an amusement park.

Nice -- Claim the elevators as a rides, would just need to expand the property to 75 acres.

It is full of clowns.

Soccerdad1995 wrote:
I share your frustration with the 5 month delay. But my bigger frustration is with the limitations of the law itself. I think the real fix needs to be done in the legislature. And should focus on some of the following modifications:
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I agree with your point on the law. To understand why the law is so convoluted, we need to look at how laws get enacted.

The legislature meets 180 days out of every biennium. They don't have much time to get good laws passed.

Democrats use every trick in the book to stop 2nd amendment legislation. They use points of order, chubing and committee hearings as a platform to put forth their agenda, which frequently includes half truths and outright falsehoods. Sloppy laws get passed at the last minute. The campus carry law passed the house for the final time with less than 30 minutes left in the session.

An example of sloppy law is that used by the Dallas zoo to keep their 30.06/30.07 signs. On the one hand, the signs are prohibited because the zoo sits on government owned property. On the other hand, the signs are permitted because the zoo is an amusement park. Trying to figure this out leads to circular logic. The fix is to remove amusement parks from 30.06, which the legislature should have done in 2003 when they changed 46.035 to add the 30.06 posting requirement to amusement parks. Prior to that, amusement parks were off-limits by statute. The legislature should have just removed amusement parks from 46.035 and treated them as any other private property.

We are sometimes our own worst enemies. We overreach trying to get what we want. An example is SB 273. That law passed in the 2013 legislature, but due to an amendment added by then Senator Dan Patrick at the last minute, the house voted down final passage. Had it not been for that overreach, we could have had gotten these invalid 30.06 signs taken down two years ago by then AG Greg Abbott.

Edit: "The fix is to remove amusement parks from 30.06" should has said "The fix is to remove amusement parks from 46.035"

ELB wrote:Thanks for the link dhoobler! Do you know how long this page has been up? I was looking for something like this last week and didn't find it.

To be honest, I don't know how long the link has been up. I looked for it recently like everyone else over the past few weeks and came up short. I stumbled across it today.