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Unless the company or landowner gives 30.06 notice, it's not against the law. Oil companies are no different than computer companies except for the parking lot loophole.TexasAggie09 wrote:I tried researching this in the 2011 legislative session board but couldn't find it definitively. Are employees of oil field service companies in texas prevented by law from carrying in vehicle on...company office property? What about at actual drill sites? I know company policy can prevent it but in the absence of that, what does the law say? I swear I recall hearing something about it with the updated law...
No posting, no prohibition. 
Yes, thank you, that was what I thought I read but I couldn't remember. Good to know I'm not going crazy! Thanks for the input yall!bkj wrote:As I read the new law if you work at a chemical plant, refinery or other facility and park inside the security fence you cannot have your gun. At an office you can have it in the car. After sept. 1st
Cite please. I don't see that in the new law.bkj wrote:As I read the new law if you work at a chemical plant, refinery or other facility and park inside the security fence you cannot have your gun. At an office you can have it in the car. After sept. 1st
Found it:apostate wrote:Cite please. I don't see that in the new law.bkj wrote:As I read the new law if you work at a chemical plant, refinery or other facility and park inside the security fence you cannot have your gun. At an office you can have it in the car. After sept. 1st
Sec. 52.062. EXCEPTIONS. (a) Section 52.061 does not:
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(2) apply to:
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(F) property owned or leased by a chemical
manufacturer or oil and gas refiner with an air authorization under
Chapter 382, Health and Safety Code, and on which the primary
business conducted is the manufacture, use, storage, or
transportation of hazardous, combustible, or explosive materials,
except in regard to an employee who holds a license to carry a
concealed handgun under Subchapter H, Chapter 411, Government Code,
and who stores a firearm or ammunition the employee is authorized by
law to possess in a locked, privately owned motor vehicle in a
parking lot, parking garage, or other parking area the employer
provides for employees that is outside of a secured and restricted
area:
(i) that contains the physical plant;
(ii) that is not open to the public; and
(iii) the ingress into which is constantly
monitored by security personnel.
Really? You've never heard of the Employer parking lot bill?apostate wrote:Cite please. I don't see that in the new law.bkj wrote:As I read the new law if you work at a chemical plant, refinery or other facility and park inside the security fence you cannot have your gun. At an office you can have it in the car. After sept. 1st
Please see the message immediately before yours.JKTex wrote:Really? You've never heard of the Employer parking lot bill?