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employers are lawfully allowed to exclude all firearms. Texas
Labor Code Section 52.062 lists the employers allowed to exclude
firearms legally in the parking lot, including:
1) in a vehicle owned or leased by a public or private employer
and used by an employee in the course and scope of the
employee’s employment, unless the employee is required
to transport or store a firearm in the official discharge of the
employee’s duties;
2) a school district;
3) an open-enrollment charter school, as defined by Section
5.001, Education Code;
4) a private school, as defined by Section 22.081, Education
Code;
5) on property owned or controlled by a person, other than the
employer, that is subject to a valid, unexpired oil, gas, or
other mineral lease that contains a provision prohibiting the
possession of firearms on the property; or
6) on 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 handgun
under Subchapter H, Chapter 411, Government Code, and who
stores a firearm or ammunition that 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:
a. that contains the physical plant;
b. that is not open to the public; and
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