2023 New York Laws › VAT - Vehicle and Traffic › Title 7 - Rules of the Road › Article 32 - Stopping, Standing, and Parking › 1203-H - Metered Parking Waiver for Certain Disabilities.

§  1203-h.  Metered  parking  waiver  for certain disabilities. 1. The
commissioner shall distribute metered  parking  waiver  permits  to  the
governing  bodies  of all cities, villages and towns; provided, however,
that the commissioner shall not distribute such permits to cities having
a population  of  one  million  or  more  which  issue  special  vehicle
identification   parking   permits  pursuant  to  paragraph  fifteen  of
subdivision a of section twenty-nine hundred three of the New York  city
charter which waive the payment of metered parking fees. Notwithstanding
any  local  law or ordinance to the contrary, such permits shall entitle
any vehicle displaying such waiver permit to park at any metered parking
space in any city, village or town of the state and such  permits  shall
waive  metered  parking fees imposed by such city or village pursuant to
paragraph nine of subdivision (a) of section sixteen  hundred  forty  of
this  chapter  or  imposed  by  such  town pursuant to paragraph nine of
subdivision (a) of  section  sixteen  hundred  sixty  of  this  chapter.
Provided,  however, that such permit shall not waive any time limit at a
metered parking space imposed pursuant to paragraph nine of  subdivision
(a)  of  section sixteen hundred forty of this chapter or paragraph nine
of subdivision (a) of section sixteen hundred sixty of this chapter that
is applicable to a motor vehicle parking in such metered  parking  space
without such permit.
2.  The application, permit design, period of validity, and procedures
for reissuance of such waiver permits shall  be  as  determined  by  the
commissioner.
3.  Such  waiver  permits  shall be issued by issuing agents appointed
pursuant to subdivision one of section twelve hundred  three-a  of  this
article  by  governing  bodies  of  cities,  villages and towns having a
population of less than one million to persons with disabilities who:
(a) are residents of New York state; and
(b) are residents of the city, town or village in which  such  issuing
agent  is  located,  except  that,  an  issuing  agent,  in  his  or her
discretion, may issue a permit to a severely disabled person who is  not
a  resident of the city, town, or village in which such issuing agent is
located where such person resides in a city, town, or village  in  which
the governing body has not appointed an issuing agent; and
(c) hold a valid driver's license issued by New York state; and
(d)  are  severely disabled persons, as defined in subdivision four of
section four hundred four-a of this chapter, whose severe disability, as
certified by a licensed physician, limits one or more of the following:
(i) fine motor control in both hands;
(ii) ability to reach or access a  parking  meter  due  to  use  of  a
wheelchair or other ambulatory device; or
(iii)  ability  to  reach a height of forty-two inches from the ground
due to the lack of finger, hand or upper extremity strength or mobility.
4. For the purposes of this section, such waiver permit shall  be  for
use  exclusively in a vehicle when the person to whom it has been issued
is driving and unaccompanied by a person able  to  put  payment  into  a
parking  meter.  Such  permit  shall  not  be  transferable and shall be
forfeited if used by any other person. Any abuse by any person  to  whom
such  waiver  permit  has  been  issued  shall  be  sufficient cause for
revocation of said permit.
5.  The  special  metered  parking  waiver  permit   issued   by   the
commissioner shall be recognized statewide and is the only valid permit,
other  than  a  special  vehicle identification parking permit issued by
cities having a population of one million or more pursuant to  paragraph
fifteen of subdivision a of section twenty-nine hundred three of the New
York  city  charter,  for the waiver of metered parking fees for certain
severely disabled drivers.
6. A person who knowingly and willfully, with the intent  to  deceive,
makes a false statement or gives information which such individual knows
to  be  false  to  a  public official to obtain a metered parking waiver
permit in addition to any  other  penalty  provided  by  law,  shall  be
subject  to  a  civil penalty of not less than two hundred fifty dollars
nor more than one thousand dollars.