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PROHIBITIED PLACES PART TWO. |
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Hillsboro Civic Center has a similar sign posted. Notice that
no exemption is made for license holders.
Efforts to communicate with the Civic Center to determine if
their intention is to bar license holders was met with a bureaucratic
run around that would have made the Cold War Kremlin proud.Once
again, there is no lawful authority to ban license holders from
this building.
Another place where you are likely to find signs banning your
presence is your local Municipal Court. While not all Municipal
Courts ban licensed carry, most of the ones we checked with
do. However, the legality of these prohibitions is questionable
at best.
ORS. 166.370 outlaws concealed carry in "court facilities".
However ORS 166. 360 defines what a "court facility"
is. Let's take a look.
Subsection 2 of the law says the following:“Court
facility” means a courthouse or that portion of any other
building occupied by a circuit court, the Court of Appeals,
the Supreme Court or the Oregon Tax Court or occupied by personnel
related to the operations of those courts, or in which activities
related to the operations of those courts take place."
Nowhere does it include "Municipal Courts." You would
think if the legislature went to such great lengths to define
"court facilities" it did NOT intend to include a
place where you are most likely going to pay a parking ticket.
But, again most courts have taken it upon themselves to rewrite
the law. For a truly tortured explanation, or maybe justification,
for this can be seen in this letter
from a Municipal Judge in Canby. But if you want a more rational
response, read the opinion
of the people who actualy wrote the law.
Ultimately, every tinhorn bureaucrat will try to impose his
will in violation of the law. You have to know the truth and
you have to be willing to stand up to these people. But remember,
just because you are obeying the law does not mean you won't
be arrested. Public buildings in Oregon are NOT off limits to
license holders, except for court rooms as defined above. And
anyone who tells you differently, or posts a sign that says
anything to that effect is lying. Period.
If you know of other posted public buildings drop us a line
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