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GC §411.172. ELIGIBILITY.

Text of subsection effective on Jan. 1, 2016

(a) A person is eligible for a license to carry a handgun if the person:

(1) is a legal resident of this state for the six-month period preceding the date

of application under this subchapter or is otherwise eligible for a license under

Section 411.173(a);

(2) is at least 21 years of age;

(3) has not been convicted of a felony;

(4) is not charged with the commission of a Class A or Class B misdemeanor

or equivalent offense, or of an offense under Section 42.01, Penal Code, or

equivalent offense, or of a felony under an information or indictment;

(5) is not a fugitive from justice for a felony or a Class A or Class B

misdemeanor or equivalent offense;

(6) is not a chemically dependent person;

(7) is not incapable of exercising sound judgment with respect to the proper

use and storage of a handgun;

(8) has not, in the five years preceding the date of application, been convicted

of a Class A or Class B misdemeanor or equivalent offense or of an offense

under Section 42.01, Penal Code, or equivalent offense;

(9) is fully qualified under applicable federal and state law to purchase a

handgun;

(10) has not been finally determined to be delinquent in making a child support

payment administered or collected by the attorney general;

(11) has not been finally determined to be delinquent in the payment of a

tax or other money collected by the comptroller, the tax collector of a political

subdivision of the state, or any agency or subdivision of the state;

(12) is not currently restricted under a court protective order or subject to a

restraining order affecting the spousal relationship, other than a restraining

order solely affecting property interests;

(13) has not, in the 10 years preceding the date of application, been

adjudicated as having engaged in delinquent conduct violating a penal law of

the grade of felony; and

(14) has not made any material misrepresentation, or failed to disclose any

material fact, in an application submitted pursuant to Section 411.174.

(b) For the purposes of this section, an offense under the laws of this state,

another state, or the United States is:

(1) except as provided by Subsection (b-1), a felony if the offense, at the time

the offense is committed:

(A) is designated by a law of this state as a felony;

(B) contains all the elements of an offense designated by a law of this state

as a felony; or

and

(2) a Class A misdemeanor if the offense is not a felony and confinement in a

jail other than a state jail felony facility is affixed as a possible punishment.