Texas Administrative Code › Title 43 - TRANSPORTATION › Part 10 - TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES › Chapter 217 - VEHICLE TITLES AND REGISTRATION › Subchapter B - MOTOR VEHICLE REGISTRATION › Section 217.41 - Disabled Person License Plates and Disabled Parking Placards

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
(a) Purpose. Transportation Code, Chapters
				  504 and 681, charge the department with the responsibility for issuing
				  specially designed license plates and disabled parking placards for disabled
				  persons. For the department to perform these duties efficiently and
				  effectively, this section prescribes the policies and procedures for the
				  application, issuance, and renewal of disabled person license plates and
				  disabled parking placards.
(b)
				  Issuance.
(1) For purposes of this section,
				  "disabled person" means a person eligible for issuance of a license plate
				  bearing the International Symbol of Access under Transportation Code §
											504.201,
				  including a qualifying disabled veteran under §504.202(b-1).
(2) Disabled person license plates.
(A) Eligibility. In accordance with
				  Transportation Code §
												504.201
				  and §
												504.202(b-1)
				  and (b-2), the department will issue specially designed license plates
				  displaying the International Symbol of Access to permanently disabled persons
				  or their transporters instead of regular motor vehicle license plates. As
				  satisfactory proof of eligibility, an organization that transports disabled
				  veterans who would qualify for license plates issued under Transportation Code
				  §
												504.202(b-1)
				  must provide a written statement from the veteran's county service officer of
				  the county in which a vehicle described by Transportation Code §
												504.202(c)
				  is registered or by the Department of Veterans Affairs that:
(i) the vehicle is used exclusively to
				  transport veterans of the United States armed forces who have suffered, as a
				  result of military service, a service-connected disability;
(ii) the vehicle regularly transports
				  veterans who are eligible to receive license plates under Subsection (b-1);
				  and
(iii) the veterans are not
				  charged for the transportation.
(B) Specialty license plates. The department
				  will issue disabled person specialty license plates displaying the
				  International Symbol of Access that can accommodate the identifying insignia
				  and that are issued in accordance with §
												217.43
				  or §
												217.45
				  of this title.
(C) License plate
				  number. Disabled person license plates will bear a license plate number
				  assigned by the department or will bear a personalized license plate number
				  issued in accordance with §
												217.43
				  or §
												217.45
				  of this title.
(3)
				  Windshield disabled parking placards.
(A)
				  Issuance. The department will issue removable windshield disabled parking
				  placards to temporarily or permanently disabled persons and to the transporters
				  of permanently disabled persons, as provided under Transportation Code
				  §§
												504.201,
				  504.202,
				  and
				  681.004.
(B) Display. A person who has been issued a
				  windshield disabled parking placard shall hang the placard from a vehicle's
				  rearview mirror when the vehicle is parked in a disabled person parking space
				  or shall display the placard on the center portion of the dashboard if the
				  vehicle does not have a rearview mirror.