NY Veh & Traf L § 1203-C (2021)
2021 New York Laws VAT - Vehicle and Traffic Title 7 - Rules of the Road Article 32 - Stopping, Standing, and Parking 1203-C - Off Street Parking Spaces for the Handicapped.

§ 1203-c. Off  street  parking  spaces  for  the  handicapped.  1. Any person, firm or corporation owning a shopping center or facility with at least five separate retail stores and at least twenty off street parking spaces which are provided for use by the shopping public must  designate as  only for the handicapped and clearly mark for use by the handicapped a minimum of five percent of such parking  spaces  or  ten  such  spaces whichever  is  less. These spaces must be located as close as reasonably practicable to the shopping center facility and  reasonably  distributed so  as to provide convenient access for use by handicapped drivers. Such parking spaces are to be used either by handicapped drivers displaying a special municipal parking permit (as defined in section  twelve  hundred three-a  of  this  chapter  and distributed by the commissioner of motor vehicles to local governing bodies to be issued to  handicapped  persons who  reside  in  such  locality)  or  by  motor  vehicles  registered in accordance with section four hundred four-a of this  chapter  and  being used for the transportation of a handicapped person.   2.  (a)  The  parking  spaces designated pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be clearly identified for use by handicapped  persons which  designation  shall  include conspicuous and permanently installed above grade signs which display the international symbol of  access  and which  shall be positioned from the parking space surface at a height of not less than five feet nor more than seven feet and may include the use of blue painted lines or markings.  Such  parking  spaces  also  may  be marked as tow-away zones.  (b)  Whenever  a  person,  firm  or  corporation creates an off-street parking lot or parking garage, or repaves or repaints more than one-half of the total number of parking spaces in an off-street  parking  lot  or parking garage, which contains designated handicapped parking spaces, or creates  designated  handicapped parking spaces in an off-street parking lot or parking garage, or repaves or repaints more than one-half of  the total  number  of designated handicapped parking spaces in an off-street parking lot or  parking  garage,  the  size  of  designated  handicapped parking  spaces  and  designated handicapped parking space access aisles each shall be at least eight feet wide. Such access aisles also shall be (i) clearly designated with conspicuous and permanently installed  above grade  signs  which  shall  read "No Parking Anytime" and which shall be positioned from the access aisle surface at a height of  not  less  than five  feet  nor  more  than  seven  feet,  and (ii) marked with diagonal stripes.   3. A violation of this section by  any  person,  firm  or  corporation owning  a shopping center or facility with at least five separate retail stores and at least twenty off street parking spaces which are  provided for  use by the shopping public who fails to provide spaces only for the handicapped and clearly marked for use by the handicapped in  accordance with this section, shall be punishable by a fine up to two hundred fifty dollars.   4.  Except  as  otherwise provided by local law which imposes a larger maximum fine, any person who stops, stands or parks  in  spaces  clearly marked  for  use  by  the  handicapped  in accordance with this section, without a special  vehicle  identification  parking  permit,  a  special municipal  parking  permit  or  whose motor vehicle is not registered in accordance with section four hundred four-a of this  chapter  and  being used for the transportation of a handicapped person; or with such permit or  registration  and  such  person is not the one to whom the permit or registration was issued or is not transporting  the  person  issued  the permit or registration; or any person who parks in a handicapped parking access  aisle; shall be subject to a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor  more  than  seventy-five  dollars  for  the   first   offense   and  seventy-five  to  one  hundred  fifty  dollars  for  the  second offense occurring within a period of two years within the same municipality. The arresting or ticketing officer shall issue a  summons  to  violators  of this  section.  A  ticketing  officer issuing a summons pursuant to this section may provide for the removal  and  storage  of  a  motor  vehicle illegally  parked  in  a  handicapped  parking  space,  or a handicapped parking access aisle.   5. As used in this section, the term "handicapped" shall also  include a  "severely  disabled person" as defined in section four hundred four-a of this chapter.   6. Notwithstanding any other state or local law  to  the  contrary,  a state,  county  or  municipal law enforcement officer seeking to enforce subdivision four of this section, may enter onto the parking lot of  any shopping  center  or  facility  as  described in subdivision one of this section or any  other  parking  lot  as  described  in  the  state  fire prevention  and  building  code, which is required to contain accessible and designated parking spaces for people with  disabilities,  regardless of  the existence or absence of any state or local law or rule otherwise permitting or restricting such access for such law enforcement officer.