39:4-205 - Handicapped person identification cards; application; issuance; forfeiture or revocation; indefinite validity - New Jersey Statutes

39:4-205.  Handicapped person identification cards;  application; issuance;   forfeiture or revocation;  indefinite validity
    The Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles in the Department of Law and  Public Safety shall issue, at the expense of the State of New Jersey, handicapped person identification cards upon the application of qualifying handicapped persons, as heretofore defined, and after due investigation of the qualifying status of each applicant.  Said card shall, amongst other things, identify the handicapped persons and the registration number of the vehicle for  which any wheelchair symbol license plates have been issued under the provisions of section 3 of this act and shall state that he is a handicapped person validly qualified hereunder to receive such card, that said card is for the exclusive use of the person to whom it has been duly issued, is nontransferable and will be forfeited if presented by any other person, and that any abuse of any privilege, benefit, precedence or consideration granted to any person to whom such card may be issued will be sufficient cause for revocation of said card, corresponding windshield placard and wheelchair symbol  license plates, and the same may be forfeited or revoked accordingly, and in  the absence of any such forfeiture or revocation said card shall be valid  indefinitely.

     L.1949, c. 280, p. 871, s. 2.  Amended by L.1981, c. 36, s. 2.