KRS § 186.042 — KY Code / Title XVI / Chapter 186 / Section 186.042
186.042 Accessible parking registration plates and parking privileges for persons with certain disabilities -- Application procedure -- Issuance
Status: in_force

186.042 Accessible parking registration plates and parking privileges for persons

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 (60)

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.