N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 1203-h: Metered parking waiver for certain disabilities

§ 1203-h. Metered parking waiver for certain disabilities. 1. The

commissioner shall distribute metered parking waiver permits to the

governing bodies of all cities, villages and towns; provided, however,

that the commissioner shall not distribute such permits to cities having

a population of one million or more which issue special vehicle

identification parking permits pursuant to paragraph fifteen of

subdivision a of section twenty-nine hundred three of the New York city

charter which waive the payment of metered parking fees. Notwithstanding

any local law or ordinance to the contrary, such permits shall entitle

any vehicle displaying such waiver permit to park at any metered parking

space in any city, village or town of the state and such permits shall

waive metered parking fees imposed by such city or village pursuant to

paragraph nine of subdivision (a) of section sixteen hundred forty of

this chapter or imposed by such town pursuant to paragraph nine of

subdivision (a) of section sixteen hundred sixty of this chapter.

Provided, however, that such permit shall not waive any time limit at a

metered parking space imposed pursuant to paragraph nine of subdivision

(a) of section sixteen hundred forty of this chapter or paragraph nine

of subdivision (a) of section sixteen hundred sixty of this chapter that

is applicable to a motor vehicle parking in such metered parking space

without such permit.

2. The application, permit design, period of validity, and procedures

for reissuance of such waiver permits shall be as determined by the

commissioner.

3. Such waiver permits shall be issued by issuing agents appointed

pursuant to subdivision one of section twelve hundred three-a of this

article by governing bodies of cities, villages and towns having a

population of less than one million to persons with disabilities who:

(a) are residents of New York state; and

(b) are residents of the city, town or village in which such issuing

agent is located, except that, an issuing agent, in his or her

discretion, may issue a permit to a severely disabled person who is not

a resident of the city, town, or village in which such issuing agent is

located where such person resides in a city, town, or village in which

the governing body has not appointed an issuing agent; and

(c) hold a valid driver's license issued by New York state; and

(d) are severely disabled persons, as defined in subdivision four of

section four hundred four-a of this chapter, whose severe disability, as

certified by any healthcare practitioner authorized to certify that an

individual is severely disabled pursuant to that subdivision, limits one

or more of the following:

(i) fine motor control in both hands;

(ii) ability to reach or access a parking meter due to use of a

wheelchair or other ambulatory device; or

(iii) ability to reach a height of forty-two inches from the ground

due to the lack of finger, hand or upper extremity strength or mobility.

4. For the purposes of this section, such waiver permit shall be for

use exclusively in a vehicle when the person to whom it has been issued

is driving and unaccompanied by a person able to put payment into a

parking meter. Such permit shall not be transferable and shall be

forfeited if used by any other person. Any abuse by any person to whom

such waiver permit has been issued shall be sufficient cause for

revocation of said permit.

5. The special metered parking waiver permit issued by the

commissioner shall be recognized statewide and is the only valid permit,

other than a special vehicle identification parking permit issued by

cities having a population of one million or more pursuant to paragraph

fifteen of subdivision a of section twenty-nine hundred three of the New

York city charter, for the waiver of metered parking fees for certain

severely disabled drivers.

6. A person who knowingly and willfully, with the intent to deceive,

makes a false statement or gives information which such individual knows

to be false to a public official to obtain a metered parking waiver

permit in addition to any other penalty provided by law, shall be

subject to a civil penalty of not less than two hundred fifty dollars

nor more than one thousand dollars.