§ 13:95.3. Possession of weapons where alcoholic beverages are sold and/or consumed.

(a)

It shall be unlawful for any person to have in his possession a firearm, or other instrumentality customarily used or intended for probable use as a dangerous weapon, in any premises where alcoholic beverages are sold and/or consumed on the premises except the owner or lessee of the premises, or their employees, sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, state police, city police, constables, town marshals, or persons vested with police power when in the actual discharge of their duties.

(b)

Any sheriff, deputy sheriff, state police, city police, constables, town marshals, or persons vested with police power, may search any person found in any place where alcoholic beverages are sold and/or consumed on the premises, and shall confiscate any firearm or other instrumentality customarily used or intended for probable use as a dangerous weapon which such peace officer may find; this search shall be limited to only weapons, unless there is probable cause for a wider search. Any person who enters a place where alcoholic beverages are sold and/or consumed on the premises does, by the mere fact of entering, consent to a search of his person for any firearm or other instrumentality customarily used or intended for probable use as a dangerous weapon while on said premises, by any sheriff, deputy sheriff, state police, constable, town marshal or persons vested with police power, without a warrant.

(c)

The phrase,"...premises where alcoholic beverages are sold and/or consumed on the premises" shall include all of the licensed premises, including the parking lot.

(d)

Any gun or other instrumentality customarily used or intended for probable use as a dangerous weapon found on any person while on the premises of a place where alcoholic beverages are sold and consumed may be used as evidence in court.

(e)

Whoever commits the crime of possession of a weapon where alcoholic beverages are sold and/or consumed shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) or imprisoned for not more than six (6) months, or both. Additionally, the court may order the forfeiture of the weapon in accordance with law.

(City Code 1951, Title 13, § 83; Parish Code 1962, Title 13, § 205)