First Regular Session 117th General Assembly (2011)


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    SENATE ENROLLED ACT No. 506



     AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning criminal law and procedure.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:

SOURCE: IC 35-47-2-1; (11)SE0506.1.1. -->
    SECTION 1. IC 35-47-2-1, AS AMENDED BY P.L.118-2007, SECTION 35, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2011]: Sec. 1. (a) Except as provided in subsection subsections (b) and (c) and section 2 of this chapter, a person shall not carry a handgun in any vehicle or on or about the person's body except in the person's dwelling, on the person's property or fixed place of business, without a license issued being licensed under this chapter being in the person's possession. to carry a handgun.
    (b) Except as provided in subsection (c), a person may carry a handgun without being licensed under this chapter to carry a handgun if:
        (1) the person carries the handgun on or about the person's body in or on property that is owned, leased, rented, or otherwise legally controlled by the person;
        (2) the person carries the handgun on or about the person's body while lawfully present in or on property that is owned, leased, rented, or otherwise legally controlled by another person, if the person:
            (A) has the consent of the owner, renter, lessor, or person who legally controls the property to have the handgun on the premises;
            (B) is attending a firearms related event on the property, including a gun show, firearms expo, gun owner's club or

convention, hunting club, shooting club, or training course; or
            (C) the person is on the property to receive firearms related services, including the repair, maintenance, or modification of a firearm;
        (3) the person carries the handgun in a vehicle that is owned, leased, rented, or otherwise legally controlled by the person, if the handgun is:
            (A) unloaded;
            (B) not readily accessible; and
            (C) secured in a case;
        (4) the person carries the handgun while lawfully present in a vehicle that is owned, leased, rented, or otherwise legally controlled by another person, if the handgun is:
            (A) unloaded;
            (B) not readily accessible; and
            (C) secured in a case; or
        (5) the person carries the handgun:
            (A) at a shooting range (as defined in IC 14-22-31.5-3);
            (B) while attending a firearms instructional course; or
            (C) while engaged in a legal hunting activity.

    (b) (c) Unless the person's right to possess a firearm has been restored under IC 35-47-4-7, a person who has been convicted of domestic battery under IC 35-42-2-1.3 may not possess or carry a handgun. in any vehicle or on or about the person's body in the person's dwelling or on the person's property or fixed place of business.
     (d) This section may be not construed:
        (1) to prohibit a person who owns, leases, rents, or otherwise legally controls private property from regulating or prohibiting the possession of firearms on the private property;
        (2) to allow a person to adopt or enforce an ordinance, resolution, policy, or rule that:
            (A) prohibits; or
            (B) has the effect of prohibiting;
        an employee of the person from possessing a firearm or ammunition that is locked in the trunk of the employee's vehicle, kept in the glove compartment of the employee's locked vehicle, or stored out of plain sight in the employee's locked vehicle, unless the person's adoption or enforcement of the ordinance, resolution, policy, or rule is allowed under IC 34-28-7-2(b); or


         (3) to allow a person to adopt or enforce a law, statute, ordinance, resolution, policy, or rule that allows a person to possess or transport a firearm or ammunition if the person is prohibited from possessing or transporting the firearm or ammunition by state or federal law.
SOURCE: IC 35-47-2-2; (11)SE0506.1.2. -->     SECTION 2. IC 35-47-2-2 IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2011]: Sec. 2. Section 1 of this chapter does not apply to:
        (1) marshals;
        (2) sheriffs;
        (3) the commissioner of the department of correction or persons authorized by him the commissioner in writing to carry firearms;
        (4) judicial officers;
        (5) law enforcement officers;
        (6) members of the armed forces of the United States or of the national guard or organized reserves while they are on duty;
        (7) regularly enrolled members of any organization duly authorized to purchase or receive such weapons from the United States or from this state who are at or are going to or from their place of assembly or target practice;
        (8) employees of the United States duly authorized to carry handguns;
        (9) employees of express companies when engaged in company business; or
        (10) any person engaged in the business of manufacturing, repairing, or dealing in firearms or the agent or representative of any such person having in his the person's possession, using, or carrying a handgun in the usual or ordinary course of that business. or
        (11) any person while carrying a handgun unloaded and in a secure wrapper from the place of purchase to his dwelling or fixed place of business, or to a place of repair or back to his dwelling or fixed place of business, or in moving from one dwelling or business to another.


SEA 506 _ Concur

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