§ 16-120-802 — Possession of concealed handgun in parking lot

(a) A business entity, owner or legal possessor of property, or private employer is not liable in a civil action for damages, injuries, or death resulting from or arising out of an employee's or another person's actions involving a handgun transported or stored under § 11-5-117 or from allowing a person to enter the private employer's place of business or parking lot under § 11-5-117 , including without limitation the theft of a handgun from an employee's private motor vehicle, unless the business entity, owner or legal possessor of property, or private employer intentionally solicited or procured the other person's actions. (b) Employees shall, within twenty-four (24) hours of obtaining knowledge of a theft occurring on a private employer's private parking lot, report a handgun as lost or stolen to the private employer and a local law enforcement agency with jurisdiction. (c) A handgun possessed in a parking lot does not solely constitute a failure on the part of a private employer to provide a safe workplace. (d) (1) A private employer may terminate any employee for flagrantly or unreasonably displaying a handgun in plain sight of others at the private employer's place of business or in plain sight in an employee's motor vehicle. (2) A private employer may bring a civil action against an employee who knowingly displays in a flagrant or unreasonable manner a handgun in plain sight of others at a private employer's place of business or in plain sight in an employee's motor vehicle, as described in § 16-118-115 , except when an employee's display of a handgun is incidental and reasonably related to the transfer of the employee's handgun from his or her locked container located within the employee's motor vehicle to another part of the employee's motor vehicle or employee's person.

Legislative History

Amended by Act 2021, No. 809,§ 5, eff. 7/28/2021. Added by Act 2017, No. 1071,§ 5, eff. 8/1/2017.