Handicapped Parking

A valid handicapped placard or disabled license plate and a current parking decal must be properly displayed on the vehicle. Special parking spaces (blue) indicates parking limited exclusively to the vehicles of disabled persons and disabled veteran for disabled students, staff and faculty are provided in all parking lots. A valid “Staff” parking decal, “Student” decal, or $1.00 parking pass also must be displayed in plain view.

The Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) issued handicapped placard or disabled license plate allows for unlimited periods exclusively to the vehicles of disabled persons and disabled veterans. The exclusive privilege does not exempt the person from the district approved parking fees.

Handicapped Placard or Disabled License Plate
California Vehicle Code Section 22511.5. (a) (1) A disabled person or disabled veteran displaying special license plates issued under Section 5007 or a distinguishing placard issued under Section 22511.55 or 22511.59 is allowed to park for unlimited periods in any of the following zones:

1. In any restricted zone described in paragraph (5) of subdivision (a) of Section 21458 (blue indicates parking limited exclusively to the vehicles of disabled persons and disabled veterans.) or on streets upon which preferential parking privileges and height limits have been given pursuant to Section 22507.
2. In any parking zone that is restricted as to the length of time parking is permitted as indicated by a sign erected pursuant to a local ordinance.
3. A disabled person or disabled veteran is allowed to park in any metered parking space without being required to pay parking meter fees.
4. This subdivision does not apply to a zone for which state law or ordinance absolutely prohibits stopping, parking, or standing of all vehicles, or which the law or ordinance reserves for special types of vehicles, or to the parking of a vehicle that is involved in the operation of a street vending business.
5. A disabled person or disabled veteran is allowed to park a vehicle displaying a special disabled person license plate or placard issued by a foreign jurisdiction with the same parking privileges authorized in this code for any vehicle displaying a special license plate or a distinguishing placard issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles.
   

California Vehicle Code Section 5007 (d)
A disabled person or disabled veteran issued a license plate or plates under this section shall, upon request, present to a peace officer, or person authorized to enforce parking laws, ordinances, or regulations, a certification form that substantiates the eligibility of the disabled person or veteran to possess the plate or plates. The certification shall be on a form prescribed by the department and contain the name of the disabled person or disabled veteran to whom the professional described in subdivision (c) who certified the eligibility of the person or veteran for the plate or plates.

California Vehicle Code Section 5007.5. (a)
Upon a receipt of request for information by a local law enforcement agency or local or state agency responsible for the administration or enforcement of parking regulations, the department shall make available to the requesting agency any information contained in a physician's certificate submitted to the department to substantiate the disability of a person applying for or who has been issued special license plates pursuant to Section 5007. The department shall not provide the information specified in this subdivision to any private entity or third-party parking citation processing agency. It is illegal:

• To allow someone to use your placard. If you are not in the vehicle.
• For an individual to have more than one permanent placard.
• To provide false information to obtain a placard or disabled person plates.
• To possess or display a counterfeit placard.
• To alter a placard or placard identification card.
• To forge a doctor’s signature.

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