                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CERTAIN SCHOOL BOARD PROPERTY; ESTABLISHMENT OF GUN-FREE ZONE PERMITTED (§
22.1-131.1)

Notwithstanding the provisions of § 15.2-915, in addition to ensuring
compliance with the federal Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990, 18 U.S.C. §
922(q), any school board may deem any building or property that it owns or
leases where employees of such school board are regularly present for the
purpose of performing their official duties, outside of school zones, as that
term is defined in 18 U.S.C. § 921, as a gun-free zone and may prohibit any
individual from knowingly purchasing, possessing, transferring, carrying,
storing, or transporting firearms, ammunition, or components or combination
thereof while such individual is upon such property. Such prohibition shall not
apply to (i) any law-enforcement officer; (ii) any retired law-enforcement
officer qualified to carry firearms pursuant to subsection C of § 18.2-308.016;
(iii) any individual who possesses an unloaded firearm that is in a closed
container in or upon a motor vehicle or an unloaded shotgun or rifle in a
firearms rack in or upon a motor vehicle; or (iv) any individual who has a valid
concealed handgun permit and possesses a concealed handgun while in a motor
vehicle in a parking lot, traffic circle, or other means of vehicular ingress to
or egress from the school board property.

HISTORY: 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 439.