STATE OF NEW YORK
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9532
IN SENATE
March 20, 2026
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Introduced by Sen. TEDISCO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to waiving
metered parking fees for certain vehicles displaying a handicapped
permit or with handicapped plates
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 1203-h of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by
2 chapter 243 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 1203-h. Metered parking [waiver] waived for certain disabilities. 1.
4 [The commissioner shall distribute metered parking waiver permits to the
5 governing bodies of all cities, villages and towns; provided, however,
6 that the commissioner shall not distribute such permits to cities having
7 a population of one million or more which issue special vehicle iden-
8 tification parking permits pursuant to paragraph fifteen of subdivision
9 a of section twenty-nine hundred three of the New York city charter
10 which waive the payment of metered parking fees.] Notwithstanding any
11 local law or ordinance to the contrary, [such] parking permits for hand-
12 icapped persons issued by a municipality of the state pursuant to
13 section twelve hundred three-a of this article and plates issued to a
14 severely disabled person under section four hundred four-a of this chap-
15 ter shall entitle any vehicle displaying such [waiver] permit or plate
16 to park at any metered parking space in any city, village or town of the
17 state and such permits and plates shall waive metered parking fees
18 imposed by such city or village pursuant to paragraph nine of subdivi-
19 sion (a) of section sixteen hundred forty of this chapter or imposed by
20 such town pursuant to paragraph nine of subdivision (a) of section
21 sixteen hundred sixty of this chapter. Provided, however, that such
22 permit or plate shall not waive any time limit at a metered parking
23 space imposed pursuant to paragraph nine of subdivision (a) of section
24 sixteen hundred forty of this chapter or paragraph nine of subdivision
25 (a) of section sixteen hundred sixty of this chapter that is applicable
26 to a motor vehicle parking in such metered parking space without such
27 permit or plate.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 2. [The application, permit design, period of validity, and procedures
2 for reissuance of such waiver permits shall be as determined by the
3 commissioner.
4 3. Such waiver permits shall be issued by issuing agents appointed
5 pursuant to subdivision one of section twelve hundred three-a of this
6 article by governing bodies of cities, villages and towns having a popu-
7 lation of less than one million to persons with disabilities who:
8 (a) are residents of New York state; and
9 (b) are residents of the city, town or village in which such issuing
10 agent is located, except that, an issuing agent, in his or her
11 discretion, may issue a permit to a severely disabled person who is not
12 a resident of the city, town, or village in which such issuing agent is
13 located where such person resides in a city, town, or village in which
14 the governing body has not appointed an issuing agent; and
15 (c) hold a valid driver's license issued by New York state; and
16 (d) are severely disabled persons, as defined in subdivision four of
17 section four hundred four-a of this chapter, whose severe disability, as
18 certified by a licensed physician, limits one or more of the following:
19 (i) fine motor control in both hands;
20 (ii) ability to reach or access a parking meter due to use of a wheel-
21 chair or other ambulatory device; or
22 (iii) ability to reach a height of forty-two inches from the ground
23 due to the lack of finger, hand or upper extremity strength or mobility.
24 4. For the purposes of this section, such waiver permit shall be for
25 use exclusively in a vehicle] This section shall only apply when the
26 person to whom [it] such permit or plate has been issued is driving and
27 unaccompanied by a person able to put payment into a parking meter.
28 [Such permit shall not be transferable and shall be forfeited if used by
29 any other person. Any abuse by any person to whom such waiver permit has
30 been issued shall be sufficient cause for revocation of said permit.
31 5. The special metered parking waiver permit issued by the commission-
32 er shall be recognized statewide and is the only valid permit, other
33 than a special vehicle identification parking permit issued by cities
34 having a population of one million or more pursuant to paragraph fifteen
35 of subdivision a of section twenty-nine hundred three of the New York
36 city charter, for the waiver of metered parking fees for certain severe-
37 ly disabled drivers.
38 6.] 3. A person who knowingly and willfully, with the intent to
39 deceive, makes a false statement or gives information which such indi-
40 vidual knows to be false to a public official to [obtain a metered park-
41 ing waiver permit] have metered parking fees waived under this section,
42 in addition to any other penalty provided by law, shall be subject to a
43 civil penalty of not less than two hundred fifty dollars nor more than
44 one thousand dollars.
45 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
46 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
47 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
48 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
49 on or before such effective date.
