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First Regular Session

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

HB.No._ 9971

Introduced by Representative H. Harry L. Roque Jr.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Currently the majority of parking places designated for use by disabled people is not
legally enforceable and is frequently used by unauthorized drivers. The occupation of these
parking places by non-disabled people prevents disabled people from being able to access

them, which in tum can prevent them from being able to access essential services

The main policy objective of this bill is to prevent disabled persons’ parking places
being occupied by those that are not entitled to use them by seeking to ensure that

enforcement action can be taken.

The bill will make all permanent disabled street parking places enforceable. It
requires local authorities to identify all existing relevant unenforceable disabled street
parking places and promote orders for those still required. For those that are no longer
required then the bill requires the local authority to remove any road markings or sign posts.
In relation to off-street parking the local authority will be required to promote an order for
disabled persons’ parking places in the public car parks it owns. The bill also requires the
local authority to contact owners or persons having an interest in private car parks including

supermarkets and out of town retail centers to seek to negotiate an agreement which would



enable the local authority to promote an order to make the disabled persons’ parking places
enforceable.”

H. HARRY L. ROQUE

* This bill was originally filed by Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago in the Sixteenth Congress, First Regular
Session.

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Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

Seventeenth Congress
First Regular Session

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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Introduced by Representative H. Harry L. Roque Jr.

AN ACT
TO PREVENT DISABLED PERSONS’ PARKING PLACES FROM BEING OCCUPIED
BY PERSONS NOT ENTITLED TO USE THEM.
Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of representatives of the Philippines in
Congress assembled:
SECTION 1. Short Title, ~ This Act shall be known as the “Disabled Persons’ Parking

Places Act.”

SECTION 2. Parking Spaces For Persons With A Disability: Marking, Signing, and
Enforcement, ~ Local governments and owners of private property open to public use shall
designate parking zones and spaces to be used exclusively by disabled persons’ vehicles.

All accessible parking spaces shall be located near the shortest route to curb cuts
and ramps for use by wheelchairs and other mechanical device usage mobility aids and

devices.

SECTION 3. — Prohibition on Parking, - Wis unlawful:
a) For any person to park or stand any vehicle in any stall or space designated or
reserved for physically disabled persons;


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b) For any person to obstruct, block, or otherwise bar access to those parking stalls or
spaces
Any vehicle operator who is not physically disabled shall not use the handicapped
parking space unless there is a physically disabled person in the vehicle, or while the vehicle
is being used to transport a physically disabled person.

SECTION. 4. Presumption. - The presence of any vehicle found parked or stopped in
violation of any of the parking restrictions imposed herein, shall be prima facie evidence that
the person in whose name such vehicle is registered, committed or authorized such violation.

SECTION 5. Penalty Clause. ~ Performance of any of the prohibited acts in the
manner described in this Act shall be punishable by arresto menor or a fine of not less than
Five Thousand Pesos (5,000.00), or both, at the discretion of the court.

SECTION 6. Appropriations. ~ To carry out the provisions of this Act, such amount
as hereby necessary is hereby authorized to be appropriated from the National Treasury.

SECTION 7, Separability Clause. — If any provision or part hereof is held invalid or
unconstitutional, the remainder of the law or the provision not otherwise affected shall remain

valid and subsisting.

SECTION 8. Repealing Clause. — Any law, presidential decree or issuance, executive
order, letter of instruction, administrative order, rule or regulation contrary to or inconsistent
with the provision of this Act is hereby repealed, modified, or amended accordingly.

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1 SECTION 9. Effectivity Clause. — This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its

2 publication in at least two (2) newspapers of general circulation.

Approved,