2021 New York Laws
VAT - Vehicle and Traffic
Title 7 - Rules of the Road
Article 32 - Stopping, Standing, and Parking
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 a licensed physician, 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.

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