Allows severely disabled individuals to apply for renewal of a parking permit for a handicapped person without providing an updated certification or additional medical documents.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2487--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 26, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation -- recommitted to the Committee on Transportation in
accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to allowing
severely disabled individuals to renew parking permits without provid-
ing an updated medical certification or additional medical documents
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (i) of subdivision 1 of section 1203-a of the
2 vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 180 of the laws of 1996,
3 is amended and a new subdivision 1-a is added to read as follows:
4 (i) any resident of New York state who is a severely disabled person,
5 as defined in subdivision [three] four of section four hundred four-a of
6 this chapter, upon application of such person or such person's parent or
7 guardian, provided, however, that an issuing agent shall issue permits
8 only to residents of the city, town or village in which such issuing
9 agent is located, except that, an issuing agent, in [his or her] their
10 discretion, may issue a permit to a severely disabled person who is not
11 a resident of the city, town, or village in which such issuing agent is
12 located where such person resides in a city, town, or village in which
13 the governing body has not appointed an issuing agent; and an issuing
14 agent, in [his or her] their discretion, may issue a temporary special
15 vehicle identification parking permit, as authorized by subdivision
16 three of this section, to a person who is temporarily unable to ambulate
17 without the aid of an assisting device, as certified by a physician, who
18 resides in a city, town, or village in which the issuing agent does not
19 issue temporary special vehicle identification parking permits, or who
20 is not a resident of the United States and is temporarily visiting the
21 state; or
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 1-a. Any resident of New York state who is a severely disabled person,
2 as defined in subdivision four of section four hundred four-a of this
3 chapter, shall not be required to provide an updated medical certif-
4 ication or additional medical documents upon application for renewal of
5 a permit issued pursuant to this section. For the purposes of this
6 subdivision, the term "permit" shall not include a temporary special
7 vehicle identification parking permit issued pursuant to this section to
8 a person who is temporarily unable to ambulate without the aid of an
9 assisting device.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
