186.0425 Accessible parking registration plate for vehicle used to transport persons with a disability -- Extension of legal parking period. - Kentucky Statutes

Download pdf

Loading PDF...

186.0425 Accessible parking registration plate for vehicle used to transport persons with a disability -- Extension of legal parking period. (1) On the application of any agency or organization which transports persons with a disability described in KRS 186.042 as part of the service provided by that agency
or organization to the county clerk for an accessible parking registration plate for a
vehicle used in the transportation of persons with a disability, the Transportation
Cabinet shall issue the agency or organization an accessible parking registration
plate or renewal decal designating the vehicle licensed as being owned or leased by
an agency or organization which transports persons with a disability. The license
plate or renewal decal may be issued for a passenger car as set forth in KRS
186.050(1) or for a commercial vehicle as set forth in KRS 186.050(3)(a). The
registration plates issued shall bear the international symbol of access adopted by
Rehabilitation International in 1969, reading from left to right, and shall be
followed by the numbers or letters the cabinet finds expedient. The cabinet shall not
charge any fee, other than the regular fee for annual registration, for the issuance of
the registration plate or renewal decal. (2) The application for a license plate for an agency or organization which transports persons with a disability shall be made on a form prepared by the Transportation
Cabinet. For every agency or organization seeking an accessible parking license
plate, the application shall contain at least the following:
(a) Name of the agency or organization requesting use of an accessible parking placard for a person with a disability; (b) Number of vehicles being used in the transportation of persons with a disability; and (c) A statement from the director of the agency or organization verifying the need for the parking placard. (3) Upon the sale, transfer, or termination of lease of a vehicle licensed as authorized under this section, the owner or lessee shall remove the license plate and return it
and the certificate of registration to the county clerk. The clerk shall issue a regular
license plate and certificate of registration upon the payment of an eleven dollar
fifty cent ($11.50) state fee and a three dollar ($3) clerk's fee. When the accessible
parking plate has been presented to the clerk, he shall reissue the plate free of
charge by the Transportation Cabinet and upon payment of a two dollar ($2) clerk's
fee, for use on any other vehicle owned or leased by the same agency or
organization who purchased the accessible parking plate for the current licensing
period. The license plate and decal on the other vehicle shall be turned into the
county clerk, who shall forward the license plate to Frankfort. (4) When a motor vehicle bearing plates issued to an agency or organization which transports persons with a disability as prescribed in this section is being operated for
the benefit of a person with a disability who is in the motor vehicle at the time it is
being operated, the motor vehicle may be parked for a period of two (2) hours in
excess of the legal parking period permitted by local authorities, except where local
ordinances or police regulations prohibit parking on a highway for the purpose of
creating a fire lane or where the ordinances or police regulations provide for the accommodation of heavy traffic during morning, afternoon, or evening hours or
where the motor vehicle is parked in such a manner as to clearly be a traffic hazard. (5) Registration under this section shall expire July 31.
(6) The cabinet may promulgate the administrative regulations necessary to further the purpose of this section. Effective: July 15, 1994.
History: Amended 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 405, sec. 37, effective July 15, 1994; ch. 416, sec. 5, effective July 15, 1994; and ch. 428, sec. 6, effective July 15, 1994.