186.042 Accessible parking registration plates and parking privileges for persons
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with certain disabilities -- Application procedure -- Issuance.
(1)For the purposes of this section, "persons with disabilities which limit or impair the
ability to walk" means persons who:
(a)Cannot walk two hundred
(200)feet or sixty-one
(61)meters without stopping
to rest;
(b)Cannot walk without the use of, or assistance from, a brace, cane, crutch,
another person, prosthetic device, wheelchair, or other assistant device;
(c)Are restricted by lung disease to the extent that the person's forced respiratory
and expiratory volume for one
(1)second, when measured by spirometry, is
less than one
(1)liter, or the arterial oxygen tension is less than sixty
mm/hg on room air at rest;
(d)Use portable oxygen;
(e)Have a cardiac condition to the extent that the person's functional limitations
are classified in severity as Class III or Class IV according to standards set by
the American Heart Association; or
(f)Are severely limited in their ability to walk due to an arthritic, neurological, or
orthopedic condition.
(2)On the application of any person with disabilities which limit or impair the ability to
walk, who has lost the use of an arm or both arms, or who is blind, the
Transportation Cabinet shall issue the person with a disability, the parent or
guardian of a disabled minor, or the parent or guardian of a disabled adult, an
accessible parking registration plate or renewal decal designating the vehicle
licensed as being owned by or leased by a person with a disability or their parent or
guardian. The license plate or renewal decal may be issued for a passenger car as set
forth in KRS 186.050(1), for a motorcycle as set forth in KRS 186.050(2), 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 numbers or letters the
cabinet finds expedient. Except as provided in this subsection, the cabinet shall not
issue the registration plates so designated to any person other than a person with a
disability as described above. The fee for a disabled license plate shall be as
established in KRS 186.162.
(3)The application for a license plate for a person with a disability shall be made on a
form prepared by the Transportation Cabinet. For every person seeking this
accessible parking license plate, proof of the disability shall be required by:
(a)The county clerk issuing the license plate ascertaining that the applicant or the
applicant's minor or adult child is obviously disabled as described in this
section; or
(b)A statement from a licensed physician, physician assistant, chiropractor, or
advanced practice registered nurse that the applicant or the applicant's minor
or adult child is a person with disabilities which limit or impair the ability to
walk, a person who has lost the use of an arm, or any person who is blind.
(4)When a motor vehicle bearing plates issued under this section is being operated by
or for the benefit of the person with a disability, who is in the motor vehicle when
the motor vehicle 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 if local ordinances or police regulations prohibit parking on a highway for
the purpose of creating a fire lane; if the ordinances or police regulations provide
for the accommodation of heavy traffic during morning, afternoon, or evening
hours; or if 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.